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

埃格巴起义：恢复埃格巴妇女的策略、故事和歌曲

• 批准号: 2585243
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2585243
• 关键词: Egba; Revolt; recovering; women; strategies

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.

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。通过集中讲述那些活不了多久的埃格巴老年妇女的故事，这个项目将促进我们对尼日利亚反殖民女权主义政治的理解。这个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。知识生产场所，如抗议和市场，在促进团结方面发挥了什么作用？如何以及为什么体现的行为，如抗议和唱歌，有助于传播知识？在推翻殖民地税收后，埃格巴妇女发生了什么？通过与现有的研究（拜菲尔德，2003年）在Egba殖民税收的影响，并通过将档案与记忆的体现剧目对话（泰勒，2003年），这个项目将有助于非洲女权主义的领域。我的研究项目的目的是映射在废除根源的Egba妇女的反抗血统。本研究将透过探讨艾格巴女性的策略，来记录艾格巴女性实现集体解放梦想的创新方式。鉴于#endsars和#blacklivesmatter等全球运动，研究人员正在更多地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，这项研究将作为一个“fertilegund解放女权主义理论的生产”（hooks，1994：70）。这个项目将开拓新的研究，中心的政治机构尼日利亚女权主义grandmotherswhich已收到很少的认可或理论化。受Bakare-Yusuf的观点影响，即非洲妇女的生活与"多元的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，以获得丰富的故事（Nadar，2014），这将被用来质疑尼日利亚女权主义者强大的声音和历史的擦除。在一个黑人妇女的故事经常被沉默的时候，这项研究将教育观众关于黑人妇女组织和抵抗的创造性方式。非洲女权主义知识将通过互动式全长戏剧，诗歌表演和Egba起义巡回展览的展示来制作和记录。Asiri杂志，一个档案材料的库，已经同意参与未来的合作，以扩大创造性产出的影响。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意义重大的历史建立更具包容性的记录和未来所不可或缺的。