Pan-African Federation

Organization

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)

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]

^ "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.