TAXATION SYSTEM AND ANTI-TAX PROTESTS BY ANNANG WOMEN IN THE NIGERIAN COLONIAL STATE
Women protest against obnoxious economic policies in Annang opened a new chapter in women’s quest for socio-political integration and economic empowerment and struggle against exploitation during the colonial period. Against the significant public roles women played in the pre-colonial times, Brit...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Romanian Journal of Historical Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://romanianjournalofhistoricalstudies.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/emmanuel-toby-albert-o.-onobhayedo-taxation-system-and-anti-tax-protests-by-annang-women-in-the-nigerian-colonial-state.pdf |
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| Summary: | Women protest against obnoxious economic policies in Annang opened a new chapter in women’s quest for
socio-political integration and economic empowerment and struggle against exploitation during the colonial
period. Against the significant public roles women played in the pre-colonial times, British colonial authorities
introduced exploitative economic policies and a native authority system that marginalised women. The burden
women had to bear was compounded by the various taxes that were imposed on their husbands, which the
British extended to them, subsequently. This paper focuses on the women’s opposition to direct and indirect
taxation, ex-raying the causes, course and dramatis personae involved. The paper concludes that apart from the
global economic depression, predatory leadership, crass opportunism and insincerity that prevailed, exploitative
tax regimes and ineptitude on the part of tax administrators, were responsible for the anti-tax protests by
women in Annang during the colonial period. |
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| ISSN: | 2601-3428 |