The Egba Revolt: recovering the Egba women's strategies, stories and songs

尽管尼日利亚妇女有着悠久的抵抗历史，但她们对女权主义组织的贡献继续被抹去。这个项目以生命不多的埃格巴族老年妇女的故事为中心，将促进我们对尼日利亚反殖民主义女权主义政治的理解。该项目还将研究以埃格巴起义为中心的抗议歌曲、基层示威和档案中隐藏的知识。像抗议和市场这样的知识生产场所在促进团结方面发挥了什么作用？抗议和歌唱等具体行为如何以及为什么对传播知识有用？在推翻殖民税收后，埃格巴妇女发生了什么？通过参与现有的研究（Byfield, 2003）对殖民税收在埃及的影响，并通过将档案与具体的记忆库对话（Taylor, 2003），该项目将为非洲女权主义领域做出贡献。我的研究项目旨在绘制出植根于废奴运动的埃格巴妇女起义的谱系。通过调查Egba妇女的策略，本研究将记录Egba妇女实现集体解放梦想的创新方式。鉴于#endsars和#blacklivesmatter等全球运动，研究人员更加关注受激进黑人传统和土著女权主义组织影响的废奴主义框架。因此，这项研究将成为“解放女性主义理论产生的沃土”（hooks, 1994: 70）。这个项目将开创以尼日利亚女权主义祖母的政治机构为中心的新研究，这些机构很少得到认可或理论化。受Bakare-Yusuf的观点的影响，非洲妇女的生活与“多种权力形成和历史遭遇”（Bakare-Yusuf,2003: 1）相交，我将利用叙事研究方法，如口述历史访谈来获得丰富的故事（Nadar, 2014），这将被用来质疑尼日利亚女权主义者的强大声音和历史的抹去。在一个黑人女性的故事通常被沉默的时代，这项研究将教育观众关于黑人女性组织和抵抗的创造性方式。非洲女权主义知识将透过互动式长篇戏剧、诗歌表演和埃格巴起义的巡回展览来呈现和记录。尼日利亚的一个档案材料储藏库Asiri杂志已同意参与未来的合作，以扩大创造性产出的影响范围。由于存档是一种政治行为，这种创造性的产出将是为像这次起义这样被遗忘但重要的历史建立更具包容性的记录和未来所不可或缺的。

Despite Nigerian women's long history of resistance, their contributions to feminist organising continueto be erased. By centring the stories of elderly Egba women who won't live much longer, this project willadvance our understanding of anti-colonial feminist politics in Nigeria.This project will also examine the hidden knowledge stored in protest songs, grassroots demonstrationsand archives centred on the Egba Revolt. What role did sites of knowledge production like protests andmarkets play in fostering solidarity? How and why were embodied acts such as protesting and singinguseful for transmitting knowledge? What happened to the Egba women after overthrowing colonialtaxation? By engaging with existing research (Byfield, 2003) on the impact of colonial taxation in Egbaand by placing archives in dialogue with embodied repertoires of memory (Taylor, 2003), this project willcontribute to the field of African feminism.My research project aims to map the lineages of the Egba Women's revolt rooted in abolition. Byinvestigating the Egba women's strategies, this research will document the innovative ways Egba womenimplemented their dream for collective liberation. In light of global movements like #endsars and#blacklivesmatter, researchers are paying more attention to abolitionist frameworks influenced byradical black tradition and indigenous feminist organising. Hence, this research will serve as a 'fertileground for the production of liberatory feminist theory' (hooks, 1994: 70).This project will pioneer new research that centers the political agency of Nigerian feminist grandmotherswhich has received little recognition or theorisation. Influenced by Bakare-Yusuf's standpoint that Africanwomen's lives intersect with 'a plurality of power formations and historical encounters' (Bakare-Yusuf,2003: 1), I will utilise narrative research methods such as oral history interviews to obtain rich stories(Nadar, 2014), which will be used to contest the erasure of Nigeria feminists' powerful voices andhistories. In a time where Black women's stories are routinely silenced, this research will educateaudiences' about the creative ways Black women organise and resist.African feminist knowledge will be produced and documented through the showing of an interactive full-length play, poetry performances and a touring exhibition of the Egba Revolt. Asiri Magazine, a Nigerianrepository of archival material, has agreed to be involved in future collaborations to amplify the creativeoutputs' reach. Since archiving is a political act, such creative outputs will be integral for building moreinclusive records of and futures for forgotten but significant histories like this revolt.