The introduction of taxation in Southern Nigeria, particularly in 1929, led to the Aba Women’s Riot, also known as the Aba Women’s War. This was a massive protest by Igbo women against the British colonial administration’s plan to impose direct taxation and the use of warrant chiefs to enforce it. The women saw this as an unjust extension of colonial rule and economic oppression.
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