Sitting on a Man from igbo songs Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 4 min 16 sec
✓ Published: 15-Nov-2017

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Traditionally, women in Igbo speaking parts of Nigeria, came together to protest the behaviour of men by sitting on or making war on them by adorning themselves with palm fronds, dancing and singing protest songs outside the man in question's home . This practice became infamous due its prominence as a tactic in the Aba Women’s War, the 1929 all woman protest against colonial rule. Two contemporary dancersreimagine the practice, drawing on both archival research and their own experiences.