Women in Colonial Nigeria: Bibliographical Review

Abstract

 The nationalist struggle of women in Nigeria and other parts of Africa was one of the 1950s and 1960s popular reactions for independence from colonial domination. This sentiment of colonial women in Nigeria has attracted the attention scholars to investigate influence of colonialists and the role of women in the struggle against colonialist powers in Nigeria. For convenient review of various works which convey colonial women of Nigeria, this essay categorized literatures into political, economic and social themes. The sources herein scholars utilized and the views how they analyzed the roles of Nigerian women in social, economic and political areas are essential points for review of this historiographic paper.