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Buhari’s Anti-protest attitude must Change for Good

February 4, 2022

On June 12, 2021, Nigerian youths protesting rising unemployment and a dramatic spike in insurgency and kidnapping across the country were greeted with teargas and hurriedly dispersed by overzealous law enforcement officials. Such punitive actions against protesters are worrisome, as …

The Aba Women’s Riots of 1929: Africa’s Great Tax Revolt

Ibrahim Anoba

October 1, 2018

The Aba Women’s Riot of 1929 was a two-month rebellion waged by local market women from the Igbo tribe of southeastern Nigeria against the excessive powers of the British government and its warrant chiefs at the height of colonialism.

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