The woman's war of 1929 : Gender and violence in colonial Nigeria / by Marc Materia, Mitsy L. Bastian, Susan Kingsly Kent.

With softcover

Cont.: Pre- and early colonial Igbo worlds -- The British view: the chaotic world of southeastern Nigeria -- The twin traumas of war and influenza -- The Nwaobiala of 1925 -- The Ogu Umunwaanyi -- The British suppression of the Women's War -- "More deadly than the male": the Women's War in the British imagination -- What the women wrought.

In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants and examines its various actions within a single, gendered analytical frame.