Igbo men, dismayed and horrified by the emergence of small potentates over them, sat and huddled in astonishment. The new Warrant Chiefs were unabating in their bullish bearing on the people. It was like all was lost. But it was not to be. That was when the women stepped forward and they yelled, mgbe nwoke hara okwu! ogu umu nwanyi eruola!, and if men fail to question this unstopping degradation of our way of life, it is now war for the women.