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West African Youth League (Sierra Leone)

Defunct

The radical anticolonial movement founded in Freetown in 1938 by I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson, a Sierra Leonean trade unionist who had joined the Communist Party, attended the International Labour Defence conference in Moscow in 1933 and sat on the editorial board of the Comintern's Negro Worker. Having launched the League in the Gold Coast in 1935, he brought it home with its newspaper The African Standard, organising workers until the colonial government interned him in 1939.

Years: 1938–?
Country: Sierra Leone
Also known as: WAYL
Affiliation: Founded by the communist I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson
Sources: Wikipedia — I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson

Works published abroad

The movement's own publications, wherever they were printed. Each keeps its real publisher; titles in this catalogue link to their page. Works credited to West African Youth League (Sierra Leone), WAYL, I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson & Isaac Theophilus Akunna Wallace-Johnson are included automatically.

Year	Title	Author(s)	Publisher	Language
1937	Africa and the World The paper of the International African Service Bureau, edited by Wallace-Johnson as its general secretary, with George Padmore. Wikipedia — I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson	I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson	International African Service Bureau, London	English
1938–1939	The African Standard The League's newspaper, edited by Wallace-Johnson. Wikipedia — I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson	I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson	West African Youth League, Freetown	English