Aba Women's Riot

GPTKB entity

Statements (22)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Aba_Women's_War
gptkbp:casualties at least 50 women killed
gptkbp:cause resistance to British colonial rule
protest against colonial taxation
gptkbp:country gptkb:Nigeria
gptkbp:date November 1929
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Aba Women's Riot
gptkbp:location gptkb:Aba,_Nigeria
gptkb:Eastern_Nigeria
gptkbp:opposedBy British colonial authorities
Warrant Chiefs
gptkbp:participants Igbo women
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:British_Empire
gptkb:Yoruba_religion
Nigerian history
gptkbp:result increased political awareness among Nigerian women
reversal of colonial tax policies
gptkbp:significance highlighted role of women in anti-colonial movements
one of the first major anti-colonial uprisings in Africa
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:colonial_Nigeria
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5