[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":93},["ShallowReactive",2],{"path-/women/path/aba-womens-war":3,"path-cover-/women/path/aba-womens-war":47,"path-women-/women/path/aba-womens-war":50,"path-further-/women/path/aba-womens-war":80},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"cover":17,"description":18,"extension":19,"further":20,"kicker":24,"meta":25,"navigation":26,"path":27,"seo":28,"slug":29,"stem":30,"steps":31,"__hash__":46},"paths/women/path/aba-womens-war.md","The Aba Women's War, in five lives",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":13},"minimark",[9],[10,11,12],"p",{},"The women who marched in 1929 mostly left no names behind, and the archive has no profile for Nwanyeruwa, whose question about a count started it. So this path reads the war through the lives around it: the market economy it grew out of, and the four Nigerian women who used its tactics for the next ninety years.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":16},"",2,[],"funmilayo-ransome-kuti","In 1929, thousands of Igbo women shut down British rule in Eastern Nigeria over a rumoured tax. The colonial record called it a riot. Meet the market world that made it possible and the women who carried its method forward, from Abeokuta in 1949 to Chibok in 2014.","md",[21,22,23],"the-aba-womens-war","she-ran-the-market","how-colonialism-rewrote-the-rules","One event",{},true,"/women/path/aba-womens-war",{"title":5,"description":18},"aba-womens-war","women/path/aba-womens-war",[32,35,37,40,43],{"slug":33,"why":34},"omu-okwei","The world the war came from: Igbo markets, a Council of Mothers, and a woman who out-traded the Niger Company.",{"slug":17,"why":36},"Twenty years after Aba, the same method in Abeokuta: 10,000 women, a tax refused, a king forced out.",{"slug":38,"why":39},"margaret-ekpo","While Ransome-Kuti fought the Alake, Ekpo settled in Aba itself and turned its women into a voting bloc.",{"slug":41,"why":42},"gambo-sawaba","Ekpo won the vote for southern women; Sawaba was arrested 17 times demanding it for the north.",{"slug":44,"why":45},"aisha-yesufu","Sawaba's grandchildren: born in Kano, Yesufu took women's refusal onto the street for Chibok and End SARS.","w5T-r_tgJrj404oAvYkqjzy4-d4trEQtF2Rxg7ENKJs",{"image":48,"ogFocal":49},"/women/funmilayo-ransome-kuti.png",null,[51,58,63,69,74],{"name":52,"slug":44,"image":53,"country":54,"born":55,"died":49,"era":56,"readingTime":57,"ogFocal":49},"Aisha Yesufu","/women/aisha-yesufu.png","Nigeria",1973,"Modern",1,{"name":59,"slug":17,"image":48,"country":54,"born":60,"died":61,"era":62,"readingTime":15,"ogFocal":49},"Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti",1900,1978,"Colonial",{"name":64,"slug":41,"image":65,"country":54,"born":66,"died":67,"era":68,"readingTime":15,"ogFocal":49},"Gambo Sawaba","/women/gambo-sawaba.jpg",1933,2001,"Independence",{"name":70,"slug":38,"image":71,"country":54,"born":72,"died":73,"era":68,"readingTime":15,"ogFocal":49},"Margaret Ekpo","/women/margaret-ekpo.jpg",1914,2006,{"name":75,"slug":33,"image":76,"country":54,"born":77,"died":78,"era":62,"readingTime":79,"ogFocal":49},"Omu Okwei","/women/omu-okwei.png",1872,1943,4,[81,86,89],{"title":82,"slug":23,"category":83,"readingTime":84,"image":85},"How Colonialism Rewrote the Rules for African Women","History",6,"/articles/how-colonialism-rewrote-the-rules.jpg",{"title":87,"slug":22,"category":83,"readingTime":84,"image":88},"She Ran the Market: How African Women Have Always Controlled Trade","/articles/she-ran-the-market.jpg",{"title":90,"slug":21,"category":83,"readingTime":91,"image":92},"The Aba Women's War: When Nigerian Women Took On the British Empire",5,"/articles/the-aba-womens-war.jpg",1789124430588]