Tag: Nigerian marketwomen
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https://encyclopedia.litcaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Untitled-design-3-1.mp4 Alimotu Pelewura was an activist trader of pre-colonial Nigeria, who, though illiterate, led women successfully in their struggle against unjust taxation and for suffrage. Pelewura was born in the last decade of the 19th Century to a Muslim family. During the Second World War, she organized demonstrations against British policy of monopoly in the…