Contradictions between policy and practise on the road to Nigerian independence: Britain and the West African Students Union, 1930-1945

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Title:	Contradictions between policy and practise on the road to Nigerian independence: Britain and the West African Students Union, 1930-1945
Author:	Nzemeke, A.D.
Year:	1991
Periodical:	Africa: rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione
Volume:	46
Issue:	4
Pages:	593-600
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	anticolonialism student movements
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/40760635
Abstract:	Pan-Africanism in West Africa before independence represented many shades of opinion shared by pressure groups that worked for the promotion of the African cause. Of these, the West African Students' Union (WASU) was probably one of the earliest to come out with a practical programme for effecting the total liberation of the West African subregion. WASU came into being in the 1930s when political agitation for self-government in British West African territories was gaining in momentum. This article deals with WASU's opposition to the colonial government, particularly its criticism of the Clifford Constitution, which had been in force in Nigeria since 1922, and the new Nigerian Constitution of 1945. Notes, ref.