This dispute and others between the market women and the colonial officials continued well into the 1940s. By the 1950s, when the LTC was managed by Nigerians, the women continued their resistance. Indeed they went all the way to the Supreme Court – and won – over some of the council’s “so-called public notices.” Historically, […]
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