Theory question 108
NationalismSection B (answer two questions only from this section)
Highlight the demands of nationalist movements in British West Africa in the 1920s
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Represented by the National Congress of British West Africa (1920), led by J. E. Casely Hayford.
Elected African representatives in the Legislative Councils (half of the members).
Separation of the judiciary from the executive (political) arm.
Establishment of a West African university.
Africanisation of the civil service and an end to racial discrimination in appointments.
Abolition of unpopular ordinances and the power of the Governor to deport people.
A West African Court of Appeal.
Right of chiefs to be appointed and removed by their own people, not the Governor.
Better conditions for African workers and traders; control of land by Africans.
Not full independence yet, but more participation in government.
Concentrate on the 1920s (NCBWA), not later independence demands.