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Nigerian Women In Historical Perspective

This collection of essays has a very long history. It is a story that needs to be told in order to shed more light on the predicament of the Nigerian woman in trying to gain recognition in her society. The writing of these essays was mooted in the early 1970s, before Women’s Studies became a legitimate pursuit of the Nigerian academic. The effort to get them published has been a tortuous one, and in its own way epitomizes the struggles of Nigerian women to achieve acknowledged status in various sectors in the country. First attempts to get the essays published locally met with failure. Publish…