Explanation: As with many other revolutions, women participated but did not gain much. Upper-class women regularly contributed financially to independence movements, while working-class women served as cooks and carriers in "women's brigades" for the military. Despite these efforts, women were denied participation in public and political life after independence. Yet, women did gain access to higher education in some countries.
<span>The League of Nations was an early form of the United Nations. It was also a paper tiger in being unable to really do anything about the situation in Africa or anywhere else.</span>
