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Nov 24, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Exactly 90 years ago today, the Ogu Umunwaanyi aka the Aba Women's Riots of 1929 began in today's SS & SE Nigeria.
It was primarily rooted in three things.
One, the slump in prices of palm oil (affecting men) & palm kernels (affecting women) due to the Great Depression of 1929.
The colonisers decided to tax more even as the people were earning less.
Two, the ill-advised implementation of indirect rule in eastern Nigeria, beginning circa 1906. The British figured that if it worked in the North, it would work elsewhere.
Dec 26, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Today's a good day as any to tell the story of what happened on Saturday 14th December 2002 as an example of the lingering issues of federal might in the Niger Delta.
Here's the story of Tinbebelakumo Agadah, who was a four year old then in the village of Odi.
Three years before, Operation Hakuri (Hausa for sorry) II had happened, no thanks to Obasanjo & TY Danjuma. Many reports put the death toll at >2000. Many women were raped and bodies dumped in the River Nun.
Timaya whose mum is from Odi, sang about this in Dem Mama (2005).
Sep 8, 2017 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
This album art is iconic. Here's a thread on why. In 1966, the Sudan Christian Mission sent two missionaries to present day Taraba state.
One was the Rev John Boer, father of @WiebeB_Africa, the baby in that photo and the other white kids. The small girl is Lydia Abaga
