Women Involvement in Politics in Ilorin, 1960-2007.

Abstract

This paper examines women involvement in politics in Ilorin, 1960 – 2007. This area of study has been neglected by scholars but this present effort intents to assert that women have been part of political development regardless of their various background in Nigeria, Ilorin not an exception. It is the contention of the paper that although it is true that before the contemporary era, women participation in politics was abysmally low and poor but through western education and encouragement of political actors as enumerated, women have started to see the benefits of joining politics in Ilorin, 1960 – 2017. Therefore, in carrying out this work, the writer makes use of both the primary and secondary sources of historical materials and hopes that more efforts would be made to capture significantly, the place of women in Ilorin politics.