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Title: | Politics of protest in colonial West Africa: the Sierra Leone experience |
Author: | Kaniki, Martin H.Y. |
Year: | 1974 |
Periodical: | The African Review: A Journal of African Politics, Development and International Affairs |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 423-458 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | English-speaking Africa West Africa Sierra Leone |
Subject: | national liberation movements |
Abstract: | The wave of protests, strikes, disturbances in Sierra Leone during the late 1930s presented an unprecedented challenge to the Government and shook the very foundation of the colonial authority. The chief promoter was the West, African Youth League, founded in May 1938 under the leadership of a Creole radical journalist, Isaac Theophilus Akunna Wallace-Johnson. This essay 1. considers the nature and scope of these politics of protest and 2. examines the impact of such politics on the economic and social life of the country. The success of the Youth League was determined by two factors: the social conditions in Sierra Leone (the most important point was that the Creoles were a disillusioned minority treated as strangers in their own country) and the effective leadership which articulated grievances arising from contradictions of the colonial situation. Notes. |