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Rosemary Akpan (Oparah)

Women’s Litigation and the Expansion of Colonial Legal Authority and Ordering in Nigeria

Other • 2026 • Ongoing longterm Research

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Rosemary Akpan

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This dissertation asks how Nigerian women, through their encounters with the colonial courts, not only experienced law and challenged its workings but also co-produced the very legal machine that governed them within an imperial and patriarchal legal system.

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