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| Title: | The integrative strand in British West Africa, 1868-1940 |
| Author: | Nworah, Kenneth D. |
| Year: | 1974 |
| Periodical: | Genève-Afrique: acta africana |
| Volume: | 13 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 5-22 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | English-speaking Africa West Africa |
| Subjects: | political unification history 1850-1899 1900-1949 |
| Abstract: | Aim is to show that the current desire for West African integration, once regarded as a radical programme, is a phenomenon rooted in the tradition of educated West African idealism of over a century ago. The emergence of nationalist historiography in the wake of independence has tended to obfuscate that integrative vision which preceded the present frontiers of partition. A class of educated West Africans had, in spite of their patriotism for their immediate environment, a vision that was considerably inter-territorial: they knew each other fairly well through education, in Europe or Sierra Leone, through inter-marriage amongst themselves and through inter-colonial visits. The ease of coastal migrations on the frequent steam vessels enabled them to travel between Lagos, Cape Coast, Freetown and Bathurst. Notes. |