ABSTRACT
Following the publication of the letter, questions were raised in parliament, while at the university Moses Da Rocha wrote a scathing criticism of Bankole Bright in a letter to The Lagos Standard. Da Rocha's response suggests that there were some important political differences between West African students at Edinburgh, a situation which Da Rocha himself admitted when he spoke of 'jealous Black Traitors and conspirators' in his correspondence with the Afro-American John Edward Bruce.7 What is also clear is the high level of political activity amongst West Africans at Edinburgh, who lobbied politicians and wrote in the press both in Britain and West Africa. It was this kind of activity that was to occupy another Nigerian student from Edinburgh University, Bandele Omoniyi.
