Aba Women Riot & Igbo Identity In Nigeria

THIS BOOK is a chronology of the first ever organized challenge against repressive policy that was the forerunner to nationalistic movements to independence in British colonial history. It seeks to correct the impression that Aba Women¿s Riot was led by a 14-year old girl called Margaret Ekpo, and the impression that other women outside Ngwaland led the war, though they participated in the war. It elaborately states that Umuahia is not a matrilineal, but a typical patrilineal society though included in Old Bende wrongly by Britain. It finally establishes the fact that Aba Women¿s Riot was hundred percent an all Ngwa affair meant to challenge the white man for refusing or denying the Ngwas Aba City State in 1915 meant to liberate them from the Old Opobo Division or Opobo City State as it was called then, that was housing only non Igbo tribes and Clans .