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This is a AAUW MV/SV Shape the Future event by Saddleback College Professor, Dr. Margot Lovett
The history of women in Nigeria in West Africa is fascinating and challenges many preconceived ideas that we in the West have about African women for example, there was significant gender equality in eastern Nigeria prior to the imposition of British Colonial rule in the late 1880’s. Far from “liberating” women, colonialism actually resulted in a loss of women’s status and rights. Nigerian women have a long history of organizing and protesting to protect and/or regain these rights. The Women’s War of 1929is a prominent example of this.
Margot Lovett is a Professor of History and Gender and Sexuality Studies and Academic Senate President at Saddleback College. Margot received her Ph.D. in African History at Columbia University. She is a social historian whose academic area of specialization is African History. Her research focused on 20th century gender and labor history in an area of present-day western Tanzania. She is particularly interested in understanding how individuals in a colonial situation negotiate relations of power that cut across lines of gender, class, and generation.