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“We had equality till Britain came.”

Source: Title and argument of her article in the Daily Worker (London), 1947, written during her delegation to Britain; reprinted as no. 37 in Estelle B. Freedman (ed.), The Essential Feminist Reader (New York: Modern Library, 2007), p. 247

Context Writing in a London newspaper while on a delegation to Britain, she argued that Nigerian women had owned property, traded and shaped politics before colonial rule pushed them aside.

Funmilayo Ransome-KutiNigeria · 1900–1978

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