Nigerian common history has been unfair to Aku Women. We are used to the historical account that the first women Riot that took place in Nigeria was the Abba Women Riot of 1929. Unfortunately, it is not so. The first Women Riot in Nigeria was the Aku Women Riot of 1924; 5 solid years before the Abba Women Riot. What happened? How did the then Minister of health, late D. C. Ugwu describe the Aku Women? What is the level of significance accorded to respect for womanhood among Aku Women? Visit the link that follows for answers to these questions provided by the author, late Chief Christopher Okechukwu, an educationist and former Chairman of the Aku General Assembly (AGA). The article was first published in the Okikpe Magazine, Vol. 1, 1974, pp. 77-78.
THE AKU WOMAN
BY CHRISTOPHER OKECHUKWU.
