Federation of Nigerian Women’s Societies
Nigerian organization
Also known as: ALC, Abeokuta Ladies Club, Abeokuta Women’s Union, FNWS, NWU, Nigerian Women’s Union
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Ransome-Kuti
- In Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
…school, she helped organize the Abeokuta Ladies Club (ALC), initially a civic and charitable group of mostly Western-educated Christian women. The organization gradually became more political and feminist in its orientation, and in 1944 it formally admitted market women (women vendors in Abeokuta’s open-air markets), who were generally impoverished, illiterate,…
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