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Mary Nzimiro
Nigerian businesswoman and political activist · Nigeria · On the map · Politicians · Lived 1898 to 1993 · aged 94
Mary Nzimiro, birthname Mary Nwametu Onumonu, MBE (1898-1993) was a pioneering Nigerian businesswoman, politician and women's activist.
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In 1948, she was appointed principal representative of the United Africa Company (UAC) for Eastern Nigeria, while maintaining textile and cosmetics retail outlets of her own in Port Harcourt, Aba and Owerri. By the early 1950s, she was among the richest individuals in West Africa, becoming a resident of the exclusive Bernard Carr Street in Port Harcourt. On the political front, she was a member of the influential National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons, becoming a member of its executive committee in 1957 and vice-president of the NCNC Eastern Women's Association in 1962. During the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970), she organized Igbo women in support of the Biafrans. As a result she lost most of her property in Port Harcourt and returned to her native Oguta where she died in 1993.
