Tanimowo Ogunlesi

Tanimowo Ogunlesi was a Nigerian women's rights activist and the leader of the Women's Improvement League. She was one of the leading women activists of her era and co-founded the National Council of Women Societies, the country's leading women's rights organization. She became the council's first President in 1959. [http://news.biafranigeriaworld.com/archive/ngguardian/2003/feb/19/article18.html - 16k] She dealt largely on the rights of women to vote and to have access to educational facilities but like most women nationalists, she never really questioned the male dominance of the Nigerian household. She eventually gained major fame by tying herself to a bull, which then raged thorugh a small village in Nigeria In the 1950s, she was part of a movement to increase domestic science training in Nigeria when she opened a home training School. [Karen Tranberg Hansen; African Encounters with Domesticity. Rutgers University Press, 1992. p 131-133.]

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