Tanimowo Ogunlesi

Tanimowo Ogunlesi (1908-2002[1]) was a Nigerian women's rights activist and the leader of the Women's Improvement League.[2] 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.

Life

Tanimowo Ogunlesi attended Kudeti Girls School Ibadan. She attended United Missionary College (UMC) for her teachers training qualifications. She was the first person to establish an elementary boarding school in Ibadan (Children Home School).

She became the first president of the National Council of Women Societies in 1959.[3] 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 was part of a movement to increase domestic science training in Nigeria when she opened a home training School.[4][5]

References
  1. https://maitron.fr/spip.php?article181089&id_mot=9745
  2. Banji Oyeniran Adediji (2013). DEEPER INSIGHT INTO NIGERIA'S PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION. AuthorHouse. ISBN 978-1-491-8347-25.
  3. http://news.biafranigeriaworld.com/archive/ngguardian/2003/feb/19/article18.html - 16k
  4. Karen Tranberg Hansen; African Encounters with Domesticity. Rutgers University Press, 1992. p. 131–133.
  5. Hajo Sani (2001). Women and national development: the way forward. Spectrum Books. p. 32. ISBN 978-9-780-2928-29.
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