The Women's War: Sitting on a ManSoutheastern Nigeria · 1929“When the census man came to count Nwanyeruwa's goats, he did not know he was counting down to a war.”In Igbo and Ibibio country, women ran the markets and held an old, formal weapon: 'sitting on a man' — surrounding a wrongdoer's compound, singing his offences, dancing his shame until he yielded. It was protest with rules, older than any colony.The lesson the elders kept: Power had not seen the women because it had not looked. Organisation that rulers cannot see is organisation they cannot stop.