Significant1929

Aba Women's War

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Aba · Owerri · Calabar

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Mass women's uprising in southeastern Nigeria against warrant chiefs and colonial taxation.

Belligerents3

United Kingdom
Igbo women
Ibibio women

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1921)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Aba Women's War (1929). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/aba-women-s-war · Sources & methodology