The Pan-African Federation was a multinational Pan-African organization founded in Manchester, United Kingdom, in 1944.[1]
Participating groups
Participating groups included:[2]
- Negro Association (Manchester)
- Coloured Workers Association (London)
- Coloured Peoples Association (Edinburgh)
- African Union (Glasgow)
- United Committee of Colonial and Coloured Peoples' Associations (Cardiff)
- Association of Students of African Descent (Dublin)
- Kikuyu Central Association (Kenya) represented by Jomo Kenyatta
- West African Youth League (Sierra Leone section) represented by Isaac Wallace-Johnson
- Friends of African Freedom Society (Gold Coast)
Aims
Its aims were:[3]
- To promote the well-being and unity of African peoples and peoples of African descent throughout the world
- To demand self-determination and independence of African peoples, and other subject races from the domination of powers claiming sovereignty and trusteeship over them
- To secure equality of civil rights for African peoples and the total abolition of all forms of racial discrimination.
- To strive to co-operate between African peoples and others who share our aspirations.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ "Pan African Congress in Manchester, 1945", Working Class Movement Library.
- ↑ Hakim Adi, "George Padmore and the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress", in Fitzroy Baptiste and Rupert Lewis (eds), George Padmore: Pan-African Revolutionary, Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle, 2009, pp. 69–70.
- ↑ Adi, "George Padmore and the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress", in Baptiste and Lewis (2009), p. 81.
- ↑ David J. Francis, Uniting Africa: Building Regional Peace and Security Systems, Ashgate Publishing, 2006, p. 13.
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