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CHAPTER FOUR 4.1 History of woman participation in Nigeria’s politics In the pre-colonial era regardless of the domestication of women’s role in the pre-colonial era, women still grew very strong in political and economic spheres and other related areas. The qualities demonstrated by some women like queen Amina of Zaria and Moremi of Ife in pre-colonial society is a confirmed fact. It could be assumed that the elder women in the pre-colonial era, apart from teaching the younger ones on skills of child raising and home management, also train them skills of economic and political development. Relating this situation in the pre-colonial era as in stated that women all over the world and African in particular, during the pre-colonial era apart …show more content…

Women have been put at the background politically for years; this has engendered a consciousness of women under-representation in public life. In order to improve the socio- political status of women in Nigeria, numerous women Non-Governmental Organizations have sprung up. They have embarked on campaigns to encourage women’s participation in politics, although in reality, this campaign has not gone beyond the conference halls of hotels and pages of newspapers, that it has not actually reached the grassroots. One of the strategies is so often the ground for female contestants by agitating for some concession. This is called affirmative action. It is aimed at increasing women representation in political …show more content…

These are recognised below: • Marriage institutions, mostly the polygamous set-up • Widowhood, in which women are subjected to all sorts of deprivation by their in-laws. • Child marriage, where immature teenage girls are given away in marriage to much older adult men. They end up being physically wrecked during pregnancy and turn out to be seriously ill with V.V.F and abandoned by their husbands. • Female circumcision which reduces female sexual response and may physically harm her. • Excessive bride price by fathers instead of the traditional practice of using the money as seed money to start the new home. • Dismissal of wives by husbands because they could not have children at all or bear male children." There is also restrained but firm and devastating resistance from male party colleagues who organize meetings in private homes at unusual hours outside the normal times for meetings." Not many married women politicians are likely to be present at such political meetings but that is where vital decisions are taken and party posts shared. The Nigerian society frowns at women participating in night-time meetings of any

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