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West African Students Union: integral in shaping the motherland - The Royal Gazette | Bermuda News, Business, Sports, Events, & Community

West African Students Union: integral in shaping the motherland - The Royal Gazette | Bermuda News, Business, Sports, Events, & Community
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Self-determination: the issue of our time and a universal right, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú

Self-determination: the issue of our time and a universal right, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú There is nothing subversive about self-determination. ADVERTISEMENT There is nothing subversive about self-determination. “The post-colonial state can pretend it is absolute, it is not. People are transcending it, bypassing it, subverting it and renegotiating their existence in it or their exit. The most enduring is the ethnonational model of contestation.” Switzerland has a clause of secession. Nigeria may bury its head in the sand, but self-determination is the issue of our time. Events are moving fast. The crowd pulling stunt by Sunday Igboho in Akure, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu’s response, and the self-promoting “Southwest” APC summit in Lagos show that self-determination has become the key issue for the Yoruba. No matter the pretence, no leader worth his or her name can ignore it. Those who are seeking to blunt its edges have no sense of history. To the Yoruba, sel

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How West African students in London fought for African independence — Quartz Africa

Edward Miller/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah is greeted by drummer Alf Payne (left) and Nigerian activist Ladipo Solanke (right) at a meeting of the West African Students Union in London in 1951. March 6, 2021 The former headquarters of the West African Students’ Union (WASU) sits on a residential street in London’s Camden Town. The building would be easy to overlook, as it’s unadorned brickwork offers no clues to its radical past. But from the mid-1920s until the late 50s, the WASU served as a training ground for a generation of activists including Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah, and Nigeria’s H.O Davies who would drive the movement towards independence in their home countries. While there are 172 English Heritage blue plaques dotted around the borough, there is no signpost commemorating the WASU on any of its former London premises. Almost 100 years from its creation, there is a risk that its legacy will be forgotten.

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