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Pan-African Federation

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The Pan-African Federation was a multinational Pan-African organization founded in Manchester, United Kingdom, in 1944.[1]

Participating groups

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Participating groups included:[2]

Aims

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Its aims were:[3]

  1. To promote the well-being and unity of African peoples and peoples of African descent throughout the world
  2. To demand self-determination and independence of African peoples, and other subject races from the domination of powers claiming sovereignty and trusteeship over them
  3. To secure equality of civil rights for African peoples and the total abolition of all forms of racial discrimination.
  4. To strive to co-operate between African peoples and others who share our aspirations.[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Pan African Congress in Manchester, 1945", Working Class Movement Library.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Adi, "George Padmore and the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress", in Baptiste and Lewis (2009), p. 81.
  4. ^ David J. Francis, Uniting Africa: Building Regional Peace and Security Systems, Ashgate Publishing, 2006, p. 13.