Nigeria has a robust history of women taking part in the control of power and the affairs of its respective societies. Despite the societal construction that women are weaker humans, women from history till the present have proven the error of that societal notion.

Every Nigerian society has imprints of women in its politics and the control of the society but the society is struggling to desist from that social construct.

Historically, from the northern part of the country to the southern part, women have a footprint in the political affairs but we have chosen to talk less about the heroes. Some of them include Queen Amina of the Zazzau kingdom now Zaria; Queen Idia of the Bini Kingdom; Oromptoniyun, the female Alaafin of Oyo; Queen Luwoo, the first and only female Ooni of Ife (The Spiritual Home of the Yoruba).

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