Lexington Books
Pages: 198
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼
978-1-4985-1855-0 • Hardback • December 2015 • $102.00 • (£78.00)
978-1-4985-1857-4 • eBook • December 2015 • $96.50 • (£74.00)
Mutiat Titilope Oladejo is assistant lecturer in the History Department at the University of Ibadan.
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Women, Markets, and Politics in Pre-Colonial Ibadan
Chapter Three: Ibadan Market Women and Politics in Colonial Nigeria
Chapter Four: Market Women Organizations and Politics in the Period of Internal Self-Rule, 1951–1960
Chapter Five: Market Women and Post-Independence Realities, 1960–1995
Chapter Six: Market Women, Politics, and Development, 1960–1995
Conclusion
Mutitat Titilope Oladejo adds an important perspective from southwestern Nigeria’s regional powerhouse Ibadan. Moreover, by following market women’s involvement in local and regional politics from the colonial period to the more recent era, this study reveals more variety and complexity than comes solely from a focus on women’s anticolonial activism.... The insights of this book should be of interest to historians and others concerned with African women’s history, though in its details and other respects Ibadan Market Women and Politics is a book for specialists.... [G]iven the few existing studies focused on women in Ibadan’s past and especially its more recent present, this is a welcome contribution.
— International Journal of African Historical Studies
Based on an impressive set of data from Ibadan, the largest Yoruba city next to Lagos, the book traces the intersectionality between women and politics in the longue durée. It reveals how politics interacts with women’s business; how trade is shaped by non-market forces; and how daily activities cumulate into the architecture of national politics itself. From opportunities to profit, from resistance to rewards, from dialogue to negotiations, the work reveals changing contours of actions, events, and activities.
— Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin, USA