Highlight four factors that led to the collapse of the West African Students' Union (WASU) before the end of the Second World War.

Highlight four factors that led to the collapse of the West African Students' Union (WASU) before the end of the Second World War.

Four factors that led to the collapse of the West African Students' Union (WASU) before the end of the Second World War:

(i) The West African Students' Union was not particularly associated with groups of ordinary West African people as they concentrated most of their practice in London rather than West African cities and towns.
(ii) It was a world class group looking for profit for its individuals
(iii) The pattern of patriotism in British West Africa during the 1930s shifted from regional to public awareness among the masses.
(iv) It was a proto-patriotic development and its strategy for activity was seen as a conservative e that did not speak to individuals in West Africa.
(v) It faced progressive/initiative problems.
(vii) Ineffective graded equipment
(viii) Inadequate financing