caption death_date birth_place party office birth_date term_start spouse article_title term_end name
president women 's wing of n.c.n.c 2006 creek town , southern nigeria n.c.n.c member , regional house of assembly 1914 1961 dr udo ekpo margaret ekpo
 1965 margaret ekpo
margaret ekpo

margaret ekpo -lrb- 1914-2006 -rrb- was a nigerian women 's rights activist and social mobilizer who was a pioneering female politician in the country 's first republic and a leading member of a class of traditional nigerian women activists , many of whom rallied women beyond notions of ethnic solidarity .
she played major roles as a grassroot and nationalist politician in the eastern nigerian city of aba , in the era of an hierarchical and male-dominated movement towards independence , with her rise not the least helped by the socialization of women 's role into that of helpmates or appendages to the careers of males .
