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| Title: | The National Congress of British West Africa, 1920-24: the roots of elitist behaviour |
| Author: | Ebo, Chukwuemeka |
| Year: | 1981 |
| Periodical: | Ikenga: Journal of African Studies |
| Volume: | 5 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 3-14 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | English-speaking Africa West Africa Ghana |
| Subjects: | Aborigines Protection Society elite national liberation movements |
| Abstract: | This paper is an attempt to analyze the behavioural orientations of protest groups, who appeared as part of the complex of phenomena that sprang from the processes of British contact in her former West Africa dependencies. The period under study stretches from the late decades of the 19th century to the closing years of the second decade of the present century. Major interest is centred on the actins and utterances of the genre 'Modernist' Movements. Analysing important currents of thought, the paper, in this perspective, passes over the contributions made by the sub-elites and the elites to the patterns of indigenous reactions to the strains of culture-contact provoked by the British intervention while concerntrating on the members of the highly educated professional stratum and their doings. This group played major roles during the era under scrutiny in the Aborigines Rights Protection Society (1897) and the National Congress of British West Africa (1920). Though these two bodies had branches in the other British territories in West Africa, the ganglion which supplied the intelligence and energy which sustained them throughout their existence, as well as their organisational nucleus, was firmly rooted in Ghana. Fig., notes. |