The Great UpheavalThis social and intellectual history of womens political activism in postwar Nigeria reveals the importance of gender to the study of nationalism and poses new questions about Nigerias colonial past and independent future. In the years following World War II, the women of Abeokuta, Nigeria, staged a successful tax revolt that led to the formation first of the Abeokuta Womens Union and then of Nigerias first national womens organization, the Nigerian