The West African National Secretariat ('WANS) was a Pan-Africanist organisation based in Britain.
WANS aimed to build a united movement throughout West Africa for independence, on a platform of anti-imperialism.
Its view of West Africa was broad, and aimed to include countries as distant as Kenya and Sudan.
In September 1946, WANS held a joint conference with WASU, which Nkrumah convinced Léopold Sédar Senghor and Sourou Migan Apithy to attend.
WANS was considerably weakened after Nkrumah returned to Africa in 1947, and appears to have dissolved the following year.