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SUMMARY
In conclusion, we will identify some of the major findings of the project. It is evident that this work is a study of the dynamics of women’s rights in colonial Akpaa-Mbato. The study analyses the contributions of women to the development of the colonial Akpaa-Mbato. It examined the changing economic role of Akpaa-Mbato women in the post-colonial era as well as the beneficent impact of western education on the Akpaa-Mbato indigenous economy.
We noted in the chapter two of this work that the economy of the Akpaa-Mbato area and indeed Igbo land rested on tripple stand, agriculture, trade and industry. Agriculture dominated the other two, while trade distributed the products of the two. Women dominated trade and industry which includes cloth weaving, palm processing, mat making. Women also played tremendous roles that cannot be overlooked in agricultural production. They were in charge of the processing of palm produce, the weeding of farmlands, the planting of auxiliary farm crops and so on. Women complemented every effort of men in the farm land. Also explored the establishment and nature of the colonial economy in Akpaa-Mbato community in Imo state, South Eastern Nigeria. This work is of the view that colonialism was basically an exploitative agenda of the colonialist, meant to expropriate the natural resources of the weak by the strong. From forced labour in the creaks to the mines and road construction, men were subjected to all forms of humiliation, leaving the women to bear the brunt of the family upkeep. Women were forced to abandon their trade and take to petty trading to be able to make out a living for the substance of their families. Taxation was also another policy of the colonial administration that impacted negatively on the economic role of women during the period of study. Men who could not afford to pay their tax fled the village, abandoning their families, leaving the responsibility of sustaining the family to the women.
