Onokoro Nwoti

She also was politically influential as a member of National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons and a leader for women in the nationalist movement.

Her date of death is unknown but as of 1998, Madam Nwoti was still engaging in trade, albeit in a different form than in earlier periods.

[2] Onokoro Nwa Enyi Nwoti was born in Aku, northern Igboland, Nigeria in the early 1900s.

In Onitsha, Onokoro Nwoti sold woven cloths and foods, and in return, bought tobacco, potash, gunpowder, horses and elephant tusks.

[2] Nwoti was also involved in polities, and she had influence in her social and economic spheres, and was able to rally nationalists to her cause.