West African nationalists modeled their demands on Indian self-government precedents

Evidence

In West Africa the Indian nationalists had eager admirers. When India was invited to the War Cabinet in 1917 they cried: “Why not West Africa as well?” As India and the Dominions were invited to the peace conference in 1919, Dr. Nanka-Bruce of the Gold Coast sent resolutions to the western powers so that “the voice of West Africa” could also be heard at Versailles. The first [sic] Pan-African Congress met in Paris in 1919… . — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1192

Categorization

• XREF: Cross-colonial borrowing of the Indian nationalist template is a key mechanism in the broader anti-imperial movement the reader is mapping.