African Nationalist Movement

{{Short description|Senegalese political party of the 1940s}}

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African Nationalist Movement ({{langx|fr|Mouvement Nationaliste Africain}}) was a political party in French West Africa, led by Pierre Diagne. It was formed after the fall of the Vichy regime.{{cite book | last=Almeida-Topor | first=H. | title=Les Jeunes en Afrique | publisher=L'Harmattan | series=Les Jeunes en Afrique | issue=v. 2 | year=1992 | isbn=978-2-7384-1658-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J5ooAAAAYAAJ | language=fr | page=}}{{cite book | last=Zuccarelli | first=F. | title=La vie politique sénégalaise: 1940-1988 | publisher=CHEAM | series=Centre des Hautes Etudes sur l'Afrique et l'Asie Modernes Paris: Publications du CHEAM | year=1988 | isbn=978-2-903182-24-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K_ZyAAAAMAAJ | language=fr | access-date=30 November 2022 | page=}}

In 1946, the Mouvement Nationaliste Africain and the Mouvement Autonomiste Africain (founded by Amadou Bâ earlier that year) formed an alliance with the Parti Socialiste Sénégalais, under the name "Bloc Africain". In September 1947, the Bloc Démocratique Sénégalais was formed, which united three other movements.{{cite book| page=237| chapter-url=https://www.flaginstitute.org/pdfs/Lucien%20Philippe.pdf| url=https://fiav.org/19th-international-congress-of-vexillology-york-england-2001/| title=The XIX International Congress of Vexillology, York, 23–27 July 2001: Proceedings |place=Kingston-upon-Hull|publisher= Flag Institute|date= 2009| chapter=The Flags of the Political Parties of Senegal| first=Lucien |last=Philippe }}