Aba Women’s Protest

Nigeria The Women’s War, or Aba Women’s Protest (Igbo: Ogu Umunwanyi; Ibibio: Ekong Iban), was a period of unrest in colonial Nigeria over November 1929. The protests broke out when thousands of Igbo women from the Bende District, Umuahia and other places in eastern Nigeria traveled to the town of Oloko to protest against the …