Publication Information

Author: Leith-Ross, Sylvia

Title: African women: a study of the Ibo of Nigeria

Published By: London: Faver and Faver, Limited, 1934. 367 p.: ill., maps

By line: Sylvia Leith-Ross ; With a foreword by Lord Lugard

HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.: HRAF, 2003. Computer File

Culture: Igbo (FF26)

Subjects: Brawls, riots, and banditry (579); Acculturation and culture contact (177); Mode of marriage (583); Polygamy (595); Ethnosociology (829); Missions (797); Education system (871); Urban and rural life (369); Retail marketing (443); Division of labor by gender (462);

Abstract: This book, spurred by a desire for an accurate documentation and understanding of the Aba Riots (Igbo women rising against the alleged intent to tax women), explores the role of women in four Igbo towns -- Nneato, Nguru, Owerri Town and Port Harcourt. Women's place in the economic life of their community is examined, as well as mortality, marriage, homes, birth, widowhood, religion and missions, education, labor opportunities, and the influence of Western culture. These towns were selected because each has been impacted differently by Western culture and because they illustrate the rural-urban continuum. It should be noted that the exact geographical movement of the Aba Riots is difficult to discern from the maps provided. Further, in this source all of Owerri Province has been treated as being inhabited by Southern Igbo. Towns not locatable from Igbo land maps have been treated as Southern Igbo (i.e., Ubaha, Eekuku, Emi, Iyi Emu).

Document Number: 5

Document ID: ff26-005

Document Type: Monograph

Language: English

Note: Includes bibliographical references

Field Date: 1934

Evaluation: Social Scientist-5

Analyst: Del Childs ; Marlene Martin ; 1981

Coverage Date: mid 1920s-mid 1930s

Coverage Place: East Central State [Owerri Province] Nneato area in northeastern part of province near Okigwi; Nguru area to the east of Owerri town; Owerri town; Port Harcourt; Nigeria

LCSH: Igbo (African people)

sean1000x:
I have been telling Afonjas if another civil war starts, don't run enter Port Harcourt in the name of avoiding Igbos thinking you are in your imaginary SS/Niger Delta, that day you will be used for nkwobi or isi ewu. 2.5 out of every 3 houses you enter in Igwuocha(Port Harcourt) there is an Igbo person inside. If you have ear, ear ohhh!

uniqueboi:
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Very senseless post. Come and lay claim to igwuocha na. E be like una wan run again go una landlocked villages that's literally empty. Don't go and develop ur village. Develop igwuocha for the owners u hear.[/s]

uniqueboi:




Mumu boy I'm from Rivers state and I live in Port Harcourt. Come and lay claim to igwuocha let's see if Igbo's won't vanish from the state in 2days.

nku5:
Interesting to see that Port Harcourt was part of Owerri Province

sean1000x:

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biafranation:

http://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/ehrafe/citation.do?method=citation&forward=browseAuthorsFullContext&id=ff26-005

sean1000x:
I have been telling Afonjas if another civil war starts, don't run enter Port Harcourt in the name of avoiding Igbos thinking you are in your imaginary SS/Niger Delta, that day you will be used for nkwobi or isi ewu. 2.5 out of every 3 houses you enter in Igwuocha(Port Harcourt) there is an Igbo person inside. If you have ear, ear ohhh!

sean1000x:
I have been telling Afonjas if another civil war starts, don't run enter Port Harcourt in the name of avoiding Igbos thinking you are in your imaginary SS/Niger Delta, that day you will be used for nkwobi or isi ewu. 2.5 out of every 3 houses you enter in Igwuocha(Port Harcourt) there is an Igbo person inside. If you have ear, ear ohhh!

sean1000x:
I have been telling Afonjas if another civil war starts, don't run enter Port Harcourt in the name of avoiding Igbos thinking you are in your imaginary SS/Niger Delta, that day you will be used for nkwobi or isi ewu. 2.5 out of every 3 houses you enter in Igwuocha(Port Harcourt) there is an Igbo person inside. If you have ear, ear ohhh!

aribisala0:
So why did the Port Harcourt people seize the property of the Eboes after the War under the Abandond property law. This dd not even happen in Lagos

sean1000x:
I have been telling Afonjas if another civil war starts, don't run enter Port Harcourt in the name of avoiding Igbos thinking you are in your imaginary SS/Niger Delta, that day you will be used for nkwobi or isi ewu. 2.5 out of every 3 houses you enter in Igwuocha(Port Harcourt) there is an Igbo person inside. If you have ear, ear ohhh!

Omololu001:
just the way millions of yeebos in the south west will be used for asun.

Xander85:


Of course i instinctively knew you'be here! You need a outlet to ventilate your hatred for Igbos otherwise your insanity would deteriorate!

As per the question you asked: You think the abandoned property issue would have happened if the Ijaws hadn't got back-up and weren't encouraged and supported by a big 'masquerade' from outside the region? You actually think the Ijaws of the time would have had the boldness to do this to the Igbo race if some unseen hands in the forest weren't beating the drums for their mad dance out in the open?

The very same 'hands' that encouraged them to do this didn't see the need to do likewise in Lagos since they had already got what they wanted: 'one Nigeria', the balkanization of Igboland.....and following from this, easy access to its oyel and gas fields! They didn't do likewise in Lagos so they can come out of the whole sordid affair smelling of roses...so they can say as you're now saying: 'see, we actually 'love' you as we didn't seize your property in Lagos like the Ijaws did in Port Harcourt'!

Try something else!

hisgrace090:
We're one but the portharcourt people disagrees.

Two cannot stay together except they agree says the bible. See emos 3:3.

aribisala0:
What was Owerri Province? Who created it?

Can you quote a sentence to show from THIS REPORT that Port Harcourt was part of this Owerri Province

You folk are indeed desperate