By Marc Matera
In 1929, tens of millions of south jap Nigerian girls rose up opposed to British authority in what is referred to as the Women's warfare. This book brings togther, for the 1st time, the a number of views of the war's colonized and colonial members and examines its numerous activities inside a unmarried, gendered analytical body.
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The Delta towns of Bonny and Calabar became bustling centers of commerce in human beings, many of them being what we would today call Igbo. In the years from 1730 to 1810, Igbo speakers provided the majority of slaves to the New World, a situation that rebounded harshly upon the people of the region. ) Men in the prime of their lives were kidnapped by neighboring villages for sale to the coastal traders, leaving their own villages bereft of the labor, skills, and offspring they might have provided.
Young women often joined the churches in defiance of their natal families and refused to marry the men selected for them if the poten- Pre- and Early Colonial Igbo Worlds 39 tial husbands were not Christians or were polygynous. Converted wives fled from their “pagan” husbands and refused to return to them. Even some wealthy, elderly men forswore their titles, dismissed all their wives but one, and became extremely devout, shocking and outraging their community and the communities of their disgraced spouses.
47 Lugardism aggravated an already unhappy situation in the southeastern region and quickly turned it into an intolerable one. The warrant chiefs, forced to “get up” by the British, immediately perceived the advantages they could reap from their new reinforced positions of power. Money lending by the chiefs to litigants, for example, became almost endemic in the native courts, and these courts were further corrupted to enhance the chiefs’ profits. “The Warrant Chiefs who generally were unscrupulous and grasping were not averse to luring unsuspecting simple folk into bootless litigation by promising to lend them, often at exorbitant rates the money with which to pursue litigation,” noted Afigbo.