Women's War of 1929

MARC MATERA Assistant Professor of Modern Britain, British Empire, and World History. He is the author of a number of articles on African and Caribbean intellectuals in Britain. MISTY L. BASTIAN Professor of Anthropology at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, USA. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on Onitsha Igbo society, media and modern magic in southern Nigeria, Nigerian Pentecostalism in the twenty-first century, as well as on British colonialists and their encounters with Igbo-speaking peoples from 1870-1930. SUSAN KINGSLEY KENT Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. She is the author of various publications including, most recently, History of Western Civilization since 1500: An Ecological Approach (2008, 2010); and Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in Britain, 1918-1931 (2009).

“The women’s war of 1929: Gender and Violence inColonial Nigeria … provides one of the most detailed and multidimensionalaccounts of the circumstances that led to those events and their impact on theAfrican-Colonial encounter. … The Women’s War of 1929 makes a significantcontribution to studies of African women, gender, colonialism, and colonialviolence. Matera, Bastian, and Kent retell a familiar story with new sourcesand insights, and present perspectives that enrich our knowledge of thisremarkable event.” (Saheed Aderinto, African Studies Review, Vol. 58 (3), December,2015)"If the subject matter is familiar, the approach adopted here is nevertheless original. The book brings metropole and colony together by combining the expertise of two historians of Britain, Marc Matera and Susan Kingsley Kent with that of an anthropologist of Africa, Misty L. Bastian." - Journal of Twentieth Century British History

• Chronology of Major Events Introduction Pre-and Early Colonial Igbo Life The British View: The Chaos of Igbo Life The Twin Traumas of War and Flu The Nwaobiala of 1925 The Ogu Umunwaanyi The British Suppression of the Women's War  'More Deadly than the Male'  What the Women Wrought Conclusion Bibliography