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is a writer and PhD candidate in Literary Practice at the University of Warwick exploring the Egba Women's Revolt.
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is a writer and PhD candidate in Literary Practice at the University of Warwick exploring the Egba Women's Revolt.
LANAIRE ADEREMI
OCTOBER 6 2024
LANAIRE ADEREMI•OCTOBER 6 2024
LANAIRE ADEREMI
OCTOBER 15 2021
LANAIRE ADEREMI•OCTOBER 15 2021
Writer and author of ‘Egba Women Unite!’, Lanaire Aderemi, wants to correct the misconception that African revolutions revolved around elite individuals: ‘It is important to acknowledge the role the masses play in liberation movements because, so often, the history that is written in the now is so obsessed with celebrities.’
LANAIRE ADEREMI
SEPTEMBER 8 2021
LANAIRE ADEREMI•SEPTEMBER 8 2021
For much of history, Egba market women have been erroneously (re)presented as ‘barbaric’ and ‘disorganized’. Such women, however, were indelible forces of anti-colonial resistance. Their legacies invite us to deconstruct anti-colonial struggles—a restorative and equally revolutionary act.