Pan-African Federation
The Pan-African Federation was a multinational Pan-African organization founded in Manchester, United Kingdom, in 1944.[1]
Participating groups[]
Participating groups included:[2]
- (Manchester)
- (London)
- (Edinburgh)
- (Glasgow)
- (Cardiff)
- (Dublin)
- Kikuyu Central Association (Kenya) represented by Jomo Kenyatta
- West African Youth League (Sierra Leone section) represented by Isaac Wallace-Johnson
- (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[]
- Decolonization of Africa
- First Pan-African Conference
- Pan-African Congress
- Pan-Africanism
- United States of Latin Africa
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.
Categories:
- Pan-Africanist organizations in Europe
- Organizations established in 1944
- Pan-Africanism in the United Kingdom
- British Empire in World War II
- Kenya stubs