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Women and Nationalism in Nigeria - The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria By Judith Byfield. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. pp. 334. $36.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780821423981); ebook (ISBN: 9780821446904).

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The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria By Judith Byfield. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. pp. 334. $36.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780821423981); ebook (ISBN: 9780821446904).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2024

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Nigeriagenderprotestcolonialismpoliticshistoriography
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The Journal of African History , Volume 64 , Issue 3 , November 2023 , pp. 470 - 472
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1 For further examination of the 1929 Women’ War see, for example: Allen, J. Van, ‘“Sitting on a man”: colonialism and the lost political institutions of Igbo women’, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne Des Études Africaines, 6:2 (1972), 165–81Google Scholar; Falola, T. and Paddock, A., The Women's War of 1929: A history of anti-colonial resistance in eastern Nigeria (Durham, NC, 2011)Google Scholar.

2 See Johnson-Odim, C., For Women and the Nation: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria (Urbana-Champaign, 1997)Google Scholar.

3 Korieh, C. J. and Njoku, R. C., Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa (New York, 2007)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 For more on the contributions of Nigeria to British War effort, see Korieh, C. J., Nigeria and World War Two: Colonialism, Empire and Global Conflict (Cambridge, 2020)Google Scholar.