Meet the Heroine of 1929 Aba women Riot

I guess we all know about the 'Aba women's riot of 1929'. But for those who don't know her in particular...

This is NNETE OKORIE-EGBE.

She was a Princess & revolutionary leader from a place known as Akwete in today's Abia State.

NNETE was the fearless leader of the '1929 Aba women's riot'. She led the protest because of unfair taxation of women in the colonial era.

Over her revolutionary prowess, the colonial masters imprisoned her for two years in Port Harcourt. She was later released to a hero's welcome in Ala-Igbo.

Because of her efforts in protection of women's rights in that era, the colonial masters backed down on that law and abolished the taxation on women.

At the time, she was able to lead the revolution which also had women from other old Eastern Nigerian ethnic groups like Opobo, Ibibio, Andoni, Ogoni & Bonny. It was a strategically executed anti-colonial revolt over economic, social & political injustice against women who also weren't allowed to have leadership positions.

Indeed, she and her fellow amazonian women of that era were the 'pioneers' of true and sensible feminism in the Nigerian clime.

During the war in 1968, she passed on at the very graceful age of 108.