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Title: | Gender, justice, and the environment: connecting the dots |
Author: | Byfield, Judith A. |
Year: | 2012 |
Periodical: | African Studies Review (ISSN 1555-2462) |
Volume: | 55 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 1-12 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | political action women environment climate change |
About person: | Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900-1978) |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2012.0017 |
Abstract: | In this paper I attempt to connect several dots, specifically my research on African women's activism, environmental justice, and climate change. The book on which I am currently working is tentatively entided ''The Great Upheaval': Women, Taxes and Nationalist Politics in Abeokuta (Nigeria), 1945-1951'. The study examines the struggles of Nigerian women to shape the nationalist agenda and their setbacks as the country moved decisively toward independence. At its core lies an analysis of a tax revolt launched by women in Abeokuta in 1947. The Abeokuta Women's Union (AWU), under the leadership of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (the mother of the late musician Fela Kuti), began a protracted protest against a tax increase. This revolt is well known in Nigerian popular history, and many people outside of Nigeria were introduced to it in Wole Soyinka's memoir, Ake: The Years of Childhood (1981:164-218). Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |