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Aba, 153
politicized women in, 163 - 165
Aba Women's Association, 165
Abayomi, Oyinkan Morenike, 152, 153
160, 168
Abeokuta, 55
politicized women in, 169 - 172,
257 (n16), 257 (n22)
Abeokuta Ladies' Club, 169
Abeokuta Women's Union (AWU),
169 - 172, 257 (n22)
Abidjan, 103, 226
AIDS in, 128
child labor in, 115
prostitution in, 128
women's march on, 177 - 179,
258 (n36)
See also specific peoples
Abo, Léonie, 186 - 187
Abomey. See Benin
Abraham, Liz, 132, 192
Accra, 90
and marriage, 19, 237 (n25)
child labor in, 115
market women in, 95, 96
prostitution in, 127
See also specific peoples
Achebe, Chinua, 227
Action Group, 123, 168, 172, 173 - 174
Adandozan, 37
Addis Ababa
and businesswomen, 105
and genital mutilation, 209
and migration, urban, 82, 246 (n36)
Adekogbe, Elizabeth Adeyemi, 173
Ademola, 169, 170, 172, 257 (n22)
Aetius, 207
AFCO. See Association des Femmes
Commerçantes
Africa (eastern)
and farmers, women, 71
and land access, 65 - 68
and women chiefs, 36
Africa (southern)
and subjugation of women, 56
powerful women in, 39 - 50
Africa (western)
and land access, 68 - 69
female factory workers in, 134
genital mutilation in, 206
African Democratic Assembly, 158
African Methodist Episcopal church,
191
African National Congress (ANC), 48,
189 - 195, 230
African Yearly Register, 150
Afrikaners, 28
Afro-Brazilian women, 51, 55
and women's rights, 83
Agonglo, King (Danxhomé), 37
Agricultural hierarchy, 59 - 64
AIDS, 125, 217
and contraception, 223
and prostitution, 128
Aisa Kill Ngirmaramma, Queen, 37
Ajasa, Sir Akitoye, 254 (n23)
Akan, 178
and divorce, 221
and market women, 94, 95, 97, 103
and marriage, 237 (n26)
and polygamy, 213
and women's rights, 84, 85, 246 (n46)
Ake: The Years of Childhood( Soyinka),
161
Akengbuwa (chief of the Itsekiri king-
dom), 37
Akitoye, 55
Alaga, Alhaja Humani, 174, 257 (n29)

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Publication Information: Book Title: African Women: A Modern History. Contributors: Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch - author, Beth Gillian Raps - transltr. Publisher: Westview Press. Place of Publication: Boulder, CO. Publication Year: 1997. Page Number: 287.
    
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