Remembering Margaret Ekpo and the Enugu strike massacre
As her plane touched down in Lagos, Nigeria on Saturday, February 2, 1959, there was only one thing on the mind of the celebrated Nigerian politician and activist, Margaret Ekpo: the upcoming federal elections in December and how she could further her fight for women’s rights on the back of them. A frequent traveller, Ekpo had just completed a trip to the United States. Now returning to her base in Aba, eastern Nigeria, she was about to deliver another speech from her political armoury. Regarded as a female “pillar” of the political party the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroon...
Source: aljazeera.com