Wuraola Esan

Chief Wuraola Adepeju Esan (1909–1985) í chí àkone eñwu  Nigerian , feminist kpaí íje-be . Í che né kí che dama ko la ije íbe amí ye traditional aristocrat lugbo úché éja adabí ye  iyalode ye Ibadan.Roberta Ann Dunbar. Reviewed Work(s): "People and Empires in African History: Essays in Memory of Michael Crowder" by J. F. Ade Ajayi; J. D. Y. Peel; Michael Crowder, The Journal of African History, Vol. 34, No. 3, 1993.

Biography

Early life and education
Wuraola Adepeju Esan ma bí efu ódò 1909 efu éwo Calabar ñw ofigbélí Ojo-badan ye Ibadan.
ofihbelí ñw chu kocha abo Olu-ane ñwu àmàà ma d'owo tí Olu-ane kí yogba manyu amo oma ma efu otakída .atta Wuraola Adepeju , Thomas Ojo-Ade, kí chí enekaa efu ama chukọlọ agimí ane‘kpala kí jo‘gun ye  World War ejuodudu kpaí ye edakelu kí dí okpà ye ábo kí gbojile tí efu òfa Ibadan .iya ñw , Ajike Ojo Aina,kí odu ejuma chí  Iya Gbogbo (iya ọwọ ja), kí chene kía ya nyi aja gbo‘la-nw. ábu kí chene ódò íshamú nyogwoko ogwu , amí enefu ye British colonial chí amí administration ku ma díbe ñwu ma kí Abímoto onubule kí lo tí unyí úkoche ísakulu efu Nigeria àmàà ofigbélí Esan che majuma kí úkoche edu ñwu Abímoto onubule chenwu okpakaa ñwu ye í óla áne ñwu amí oma oma ma . Wuraola Adepeju Esan ku ma lo tí Baptist Girls College, Idi Aba, Abeokuta ubí takí ma chere nyogba lo tí ye  United Missionary Collégé, Molete, Ibadan ku ma ní úkoche ye àkone eñwu ku ma ní otakída íjelí . Kwí 1930 tí1934, í chí ene àkone eñwu domestic science ye únyí Úkoche ísakulu missionary kí de Akure. Ubíle onwu kpai  Victor Esan Fu ola ma né óko ñoya efu ódò 1934 kpaí ma jo ojo gwee efu ewo  Lagos.efu odo  1935,í che úkolo àkone eñwu éfu Lagos State kpí  Methodist Girls’ High School (MGHS), a school prestigiously known for the secondary education for girls in Nigeria. Esan was deeply inspired by the Lagos Women’s League which gave active support for the education of girls. Her political activism gained its momentum when she and some other women played active roles in the Nigerian Youth Movement and the National Council of Nigeria and Cameroons—which were very active in the politics of Lagos at the time.  A few years later she moved back to her hometown of Ibadan.Kathleen E. Sheldon. Historical Dictionary of Women In Sub-Saharan Africa, Scarecrow Press, 2005, p 74. 

Political career
Although educational facilities available to women during the colonial era were limited. In 1944, she established the Ibadan People's Girls Grammar School in Molete,Cheryl Johnson-Odim. For Women and the Nation: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria, University of Illinois Press, 1997, p 48.  to educate women in different subjects including domestic science. However, her views and subsequent political ideas did not advocate a much more expanded vision of women's place in a broader society.Karen Tranberg Hansen. African Encounters with Domesticity, Rutgers University Press, 1992, p 133.

In the 1950s, she entered partisan politics and was a member of the women's wing of the Action Group. Though the women were important instruments to garner votes, few were accorded official power and party-wide responsibility. However, Esan was able to rise through the ranks to become the first female member of the Nigerian National Assembly, as a nominated senator from Ibadan West. She was also a founding member of the National Council of Women Societies. In 1975, she took the title of Iyalode and thus acquired the rank of a high chief in Ibadan.

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