Margaret Ekpo
Margaret Ekpo | |
|---|---|
Chief Margaret Ekpo, President of the Women's wing of N.C.N.C | |
| Member of the Eastern Region House of Assembly | |
| In office 1961–1965 | |
| Extraordinary Member of the Eastern Region House of Chiefs | |
| In office 1959–1961 | |
| Appointed by | Sir Robert Stapledon |
| Ezinne of the Igbo People Obong-awan of the Efik People | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 June 1914 Creek Town, Nigeria Protectorate |
| Died | 21 September 2006 (aged 92) |
| Party | National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons |
| Spouse |
John Udo Ekpo (m. 1938) |
| Children | Edward and Winston |
| Alma mater | Dublin Institute of Technology |
Chief Margaret Ekpo CFR OON ⓘ (27 July 1914 – 21 September 2006) 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 grassroots and nationalist politician in the Eastern Nigerian city of Aba, championing women's interests there, in the era of a hierarchical and male-dominated movement towards independence.