(Anti-colonial) women’s protests in Nigeria

Achebe, Nwando

2005
Farmers, traders, warriors, and kings: Female power and authority in Northern Igboland, 1900-1960, Heinemann, Portsmouth.

Bastian, Misty

2002
“Vultures of the market place”, South Eastern Nigerian women and discourses of the Ogu Umunwaanyi (Women’s War) of 1929, in: Allman, Jean / Geiger, Susan / Musisi, Nakanyike (eds.): Women in colonial African histories, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, S.260-281.

Eames, Elizabeth A.

1988
Why women went to war, Women and wealth in Ondo town, Western Nigeria, in: Clark, Gracia (ed.): Traders versus state, Anthropological approaches to unofficial economices, Westview Press, Boulder, S.81-97.

Emezue, Sydney

1997
Women and the war, in: Harneit-Sievers, Axel / Ahazuem, Jones O. / Emezue, Sydney (eds.): A social history of the Nigerian civil war: Perspectives from below, Lit-Publishers, Hamburg/Münster.

Gailey, Harry

1970
The road to Aba, New York University Press, New York.

Hanna, J.L.

1990
Dance, protest and women’s wars: Cases from Nigeria and the United States, in: West, G. / Blumberg, R.L. (eds.): Women and social protest, Oxford University Press, New York - Oxford, S.333-345.

Johnson, Cheryl

1982
Grass roots organizing, Women in anticolonial activity in Southwestern Nigeria, in: African Studies Review, vol. XXV, no. 2-3, S.137157.

Ifeka-Moller, Caroline

1975
Female militancy and colonial revolt - The ‘Women’s War’ of 1929, Eastern Nigeria, in: Ardener, Shirley (ed.): Perceiving women, Routledge Publishers, London, S.127-157.

Ikelegbe, Augustine

2005
Engendering civil society, Oil, women’s groups and resource conflicts in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, in: Journal of Modern African Studies, vol. 43, no. 2, S.241-270.

International Alert

2004
Enhancing the capacity of women leaders of community organisations to contribute towards peace building in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria, International Alert London

Jordan Smith, Daniel

2005
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Kirk, Ilse

1986
„Women’s war or „Aba riots“? A new perspective on the events in Southeastern Nigeria, 1929, in: Folk, vol. 28, S.61-86.

Mama, Amina

1998
Khaki in the family, Gender discourses and militarism in Nigeria, in: African Studies Review, vol. 41, no. 2, S.1-18.

Nnaemeka, Obioma

1997
Fighting on all fronts, Gendered spaces, ethnic boundaries, and the Nigerian civil war, in: Dialectical Anthropology, vol. 22, S.235-263.

Ogonor, B.O.

2003
The impact of training on the conflict resolution ability of rural women in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, in: International Journal of Lifelong Education, vol. 22, S.172-181.

Ogunjimi, Bayo

1997
Masculinity: The military, women and cultural politics in Nigeria, in: Newell, Stephanie (ed.): Writing African Women: Gender, popular culture and literature in West Africa, Zed Books, London.

Sutton, Constance

1995
From city-states to post-colonial nation-state, Yoruba women’s changing military roles, in: Sutton, Constance (ed.): Feminism, nationalism and militarism, Publications of the Association for Feminist Anthropology, Washington D.C., S.89-102.

Turner, Terisa / Oshare, M.O.

1994
Women’s uprising against the Nigerian oil industry in the 1980s, in: Turner, Therisa (ed.): Arise ye mighty people! Gender, class and race in popular struggle, Africa World Press, Trenton, S.123-160.

Van Allen, Judith

1972
"Sitting on a man": Colonialism and the lost political institutions of Igbo women, in: Canadian Journal of African Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, S.165-181.
1976
"Aba riots" or "Igbo women’s war": Ideology, stratification and the invisibility of women, in: Hafkin, Nancy / Bay, Edna (eds.): Women in Africa - Studies in social and economic change, Stanford University Press, Stanford, S.59-85.

Zdunnek, Gabriele

1997
Geschlechterverhältnisse in ethnisierten Konflikten und Bürgerkriegen, in: Peripherie, Nr. 68, S.24-39.
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Akteurinnen, Täterinnen und Opfer, Geschlechterkonflikte in Bürgerkriegen und ethnisierten Konflikten, in: Harders, Cilija / Roß, Bettina (Hg.): Geschlechterverhältnisse in Krieg und Frieden, Perspektiven der feministischen Analyse internationaler Beziehungen, Leske und Budrich Verlag, Opladen, S.143-161.

Belletristik zum Thema

Emecheta, Buchi

1982
Destination Biafra, London.

Nwapa, Flora

1992
Wives at war and other stories, Trenton.

Coulon, Virginia

1990
Women at war, Nigerian women writers and the civil war, in: Commonwealth, Essays and Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, S.1-12.

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