Pan-African Federation
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The Pan-African Federation was a multinational Pan-African organization founded in Manchester, United Kingdom, in 1944.[http://www.wcml.org.uk/contents/international/pan-african-congress/ "Pan African Congress in Manchester, 1945"], Working Class Movement Library.
Participating groups
Participating groups included: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.
- 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:Adi, "George Padmore and the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress", in Baptiste and Lewis (2009), p. 81.
- 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.David J. Francis, [https://books.google.com/books?id=gmUeIzEyB54C&dq=%22Pan-African+Federation%22+to+promote+the+well-being+and+unity+of+African+peoples&pg=PA13 Uniting Africa: Building Regional Peace and Security Systems], Ashgate Publishing, 2006, p. 13.
See also
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Category:Pan-Africanist organizations in Europe
Category:Organizations established in 1944
Category:Pan-Africanism in the United Kingdom
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