It is the aftermath of the Aba women’s riot. The women of Oloko, fresh from participating in the protest, have returned home to build on the protest’s success. This time around, the battle is not against the white man but against their husbands and the laws they have created to keep the women under lock and key. But fighting the devil, you know, is not as easy as it seems…

August Meeting is a theatre production by Raconteur Productions. Set in the aftermath of the historic 1929 Aba Women’s Riot, the play dramatises the ongoing fight for gender equity in a patriarchal society — where the real battle begins not with colonial rulers, but within the home itself.