Kaba and Khaki: Women and the Militarized State in NigeriaOffice of Women in International Development, Michigan State University, 1988 - Military government - 24 pages This marginalization of women's political power was similar in the colonial state. Just as colonialism did enhance the legal and economic interest of women, however, the military government succeeded in the enfranchisement of women in Northern Nigeria which the first independent civil government had rejected. The military has co-opted many more women into the state system at subsidiary levels and is committed to the incorporation of women into the militarized state regardless of political and cultural resistance. |
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