Mutiat Titilope Oladejo is assistant lecturer in the History Department at the University of Ibadan.

Mutitat Titilope Oladejo adds an important perspective from southwestern Nigeria’s regional powerhouse Ibadan. Moreover, by following market women’s involvement in local and regional politics from the colonial period to the more recent era, this study reveals more variety and complexity than comes solely from a focus on women’s anticolonial activism.... The insights of this book should be of interest to historians and others concerned with African women’s history, though in its details and other respects Ibadan Market Women and Politics is a book for specialists.... [G]iven the few existing studies focused on women in Ibadan’s past and especially its more recent present, this is a welcome contribution.

• Chapter One: IntroductionChapter Two: Women, Markets, and Politics in Pre-Colonial IbadanChapter Three: Ibadan Market Women and Politics in Colonial NigeriaChapter Four: Market Women Organizations and Politics in the Period of Internal Self-Rule, 1951–1960Chapter Five: Market Women and Post-Independence Realities, 1960–1995Chapter Six: Market Women, Politics, and Development, 1960–1995Conclusion

Mutiat Titilope Oladejo is assistant lecturer in the History Department at the University of Ibadan.

Mutitat Titilope Oladejo adds an important perspective from southwestern Nigeria’s regional powerhouse Ibadan. Moreover, by following market women’s involvement in local and regional politics from the colonial period to the more recent era, this study reveals more variety and complexity than comes solely from a focus on women’s anticolonial activism.... The insights of this book should be of interest to historians and others concerned with African women’s history, though in its details and other respects Ibadan Market Women and Politics is a book for specialists.... [G]iven the few existing studies focused on women in Ibadan’s past and especially its more recent present, this is a welcome contribution.

• Chapter One: IntroductionChapter Two: Women, Markets, and Politics in Pre-Colonial IbadanChapter Three: Ibadan Market Women and Politics in Colonial NigeriaChapter Four: Market Women Organizations and Politics in the Period of Internal Self-Rule, 1951–1960Chapter Five: Market Women and Post-Independence Realities, 1960–1995Chapter Six: Market Women, Politics, and Development, 1960–1995Conclusion

Mutiat Titilope Oladejo is assistant lecturer in the History Department at the University of Ibadan.

Mutitat Titilope Oladejo adds an important perspective from southwestern Nigeria’s regional powerhouse Ibadan. Moreover, by following market women’s involvement in local and regional politics from the colonial period to the more recent era, this study reveals more variety and complexity than comes solely from a focus on women’s anticolonial activism.... The insights of this book should be of interest to historians and others concerned with African women’s history, though in its details and other respects Ibadan Market Women and Politics is a book for specialists.... [G]iven the few existing studies focused on women in Ibadan’s past and especially its more recent present, this is a welcome contribution.

• Chapter One: IntroductionChapter Two: Women, Markets, and Politics in Pre-Colonial IbadanChapter Three: Ibadan Market Women and Politics in Colonial NigeriaChapter Four: Market Women Organizations and Politics in the Period of Internal Self-Rule, 1951–1960Chapter Five: Market Women and Post-Independence Realities, 1960–1995Chapter Six: Market Women, Politics, and Development, 1960–1995Conclusion