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This is a study of the politics of land ownership and governance in British-ruled and late-Ottoman Palestine (1858-1948). Using a wide range of primary and secondary material in English, Arabic, Hebrew and Ottoman Turkish (housed in archives and libraries in Jerusalem, London, a…

Through the examination of the Abeokuta Women’s tax revolt of 1949, my research examines how Yorùbá women maintained their roles and status during colonial rule. In pre-colonial Yoruba society, the cultural norms allowed women to actively participate in the social, economic, and…