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  Pan African Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pan-African Congress, a series of five meetings held between 1919 and 1945
Pan Africanist Congress, the South African political party
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pan_African_Congress   (101 words)

  
 RaceandHistory.com - Historical Record of 7th Pan African Congress
Dubois' congresses dissociated from the patriotic Pan African posture of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) of Marcus Garvey, opting instead, for the rather tame tactics of begging Europeans politely to be nice to their African servants.
The congress, held in Manchester in 1945, coincided with the second conference of the World Federation of Trade Unions, thus enabling several trade union delegates from the African world to attend and broaden the narrow intellectual base of the Pan African Congress for the first time.
Pan Africanism is the property of all Africans and that is what the 7th PAC is striving to achieve.
www.raceandhistory.com /historicalviews/2002/2202.htm   (3727 words)

  
 RaceandHistory.com - The 7th Pan African Congress
Arab African countries, of course, are African geographically and are entitled to belong to the OAU as at present constituted.
The dignity of the native African is at stake.
The African is free to adopt any religion of his choice but he must be respected and treated as a human being where ever he chooses to sojourn in the world and particularly in his home land Africa.
www.raceandhistory.com /historicalviews/2002/22022.htm   (3253 words)

  
 The Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers Project, UCLA
These eighteen months witnessed the continued expansion of support for the movement throughout sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the crucial phase in the attempts by colonial regimes and their metropolitan sponsors to repress the movement's influence, which was perceived as a threat to the maintenance of colonial rule.
The Du Bois--Garvey conflict and its effect on African opinion represent one of the principal themes of the present volume, which shifts the focus from the historiographical preoccupation with the domestic differences between these two men to the international ramifications of their rivalry in Africa and Europe.
The establishment in New York, in September 1921, of the African Orthodox Church (AOC) by UNIA chaplain general Rev. George Alexander McGuire would expand Garvey's identification with the "Africa for the Africans" movement by providing a linkage to African churches spawned by the AOC in South Africa, Southern Rhodesia, and East Africa.
www.isop.ucla.edu /africa/mgpp/intro09.asp   (2097 words)

  
 Pan African Movement
The 5th Congress is better remembered because unlike previous Congresses dominated by Africans in the Diaspora Manchester had representations of Africans from the continent: students, war veterans, migrants and trade unionists.
In previous Congresses appeals were made to colonising powers and liberal opinion in the West to accept and treat Africans as equals, to consider self-government for African countries and apply the same standard of dignity and human rights to Africans as bestowed on Europeans.
Were African countries need to negotiate with the rest of the world especially with the IMF and World Bank as a collective instead of disparate cacophonous voices of largely unviable states, they would then have better leverage and greater influence.
www.panafricanmovement.org /Africanism.htm   (3541 words)

  
 The Impact of Marcus Garvey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Africans throughout the colonial world were mounting campaigns against this system which had robbed them of their nation-ness and their basic human-ness.
Africans were discovering to their amazement that a large number of the Africans, who had studied abroad were a detriment to the aims and goals of their nation.
Africans had forgotten, if they knew at all, that Africa is the world's richest continent, repository of the greatest mineral wealth in the world.
www.unia-acl.org /archive/impactof.htm   (1126 words)

  
 Call to Global PAC 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Organising Committee for the United Kingdom Pan African Congress (1998) hereby issues a call for a Global Pan-African Congress to be held in September 2000, on the hundredth anniversary of the Conference held in London in 1900.
The struggle for Africans to develop and order their society, to relate to the rest of the world, guided by social justice and progress, is the basis of Pan Africanism.
The fifth Pan-African Congress in October 1945 accumulated the experiences of earlier congresses and addressed in a concrete way the question of fighting global exploitation and the task of building a system of social justice and progress.
www.globalafrica.com /Call2000.htm   (640 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Pan-Africanism, Africa History (African History) - Encyclopedia
These congresses, organized chiefly by W. Du Bois and attended by the North American and West Indian fl intelligentsia, did not propose immediate African independence; they favored gradual self-government and interracialism.
Thereafter, as independence was achieved by more African states, other interpretations of Pan-Africanism emerged, including: the Union of African States (1960), the African States of the Casablanca Charter (1961), the African and Malagasy Union (1961), the Organization of Inter-African and Malagasy States (1962), and the African-Malagasy-Mauritius Common Organization (1964).
In 1963 the Organization of African Unity (OAU) was founded to promote unity and cooperation among all African states and to bring an end to colonialism; it had 53 members by 1995.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/PanAfric.html   (570 words)

  
 African Mathematical Union   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The African Mathematical Union was founded in 1976 at the first Pan-African Conference of Mathematicians was held in Rabat, Morocco.
In 1991 the third Pan-African Congress of Mathematicians was held in Nairobi, Kenya, and at this time Aderemi Kuku was re-elected to serve another term as President.
At the fourth Pan-African Congress of Mathematicians held in Ifrane, Morocco, in 1995, Ahmed Kerkour was elected President of the Society.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Societies/African.html   (196 words)

  
 The Sharpeville Massacre: An atrocity against Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
African Liberation Movement forces, around the world, commemorate the Sharpeville Massacre and this is the 42nd anniversary of this tragic event in South African history.
The Pan African Congress decided to launch the Pass Book Campaign on March 21 by holding a rally and demonstration to protest these vicious laws.
Leaders of the Pan African Congress continued their planned march to the police station in accordance with the decision to surrender themselves for arrest.
www.finalcall.com /artman/publish/printer_630.shtml   (670 words)

  
 Pan-African Books
MANY AFRICANS in the diaspora have always had a strong interest in Africa as their ancestral homeland from which they were forcibly uprooted and removed during the slave trade and transplanted in the New World.
The land was given to African Americans and other diasporans not only because they are entitled to it because of their African roots, but also to encourage others to move to Africa, live with their people from whom they were forcibly separated for centuries, and help develop the motherland.
Yet African Americans have sometimes been falsely accused of being spies, a blanket charge and condemnation that has led to their expulsion from some African countries including Ghana and Tanzania, ironically from the very same countries that have the strongest appeal among many fls in the United States and elsewhere in the African diaspora.
panafricanbooks.blogspot.com   (18786 words)

  
 Race, Racism and the Law :: Clarion Call to the Eight Pan-African Congress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Fifth Pan-African Congress, which was held in Manchester (U.K.) in 1945, marked a watershed for the African Freedom Movement, followed as it was in the two decades ahead by the process of rapid political decolonisation of
and the inauguration of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1963.
PAC, to improve on the shortcomings of the same, to consider new strategies for the tasks ahead and to re-dedicate ourselves to the movement of African people’s for reparations, political unity and economic liberation, both on the continent and in the diaspora.
www.racism.org /blog/_archives/2006/2/27/1785958.html   (594 words)

  
 RESOLUTIONS OF UK PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS
Congress noted that the CPP was banned after the foreign inspired coup which overthrew Nkrumah's Government in 1966 and the ban has never been lifted.
Congress called on Africans everywhere, both on the continent and off the continent, to agitate and demand that their governments make Marcus Garvey's Birthday, the seventeenth day of August every year, a National Holiday.
Congress supported the call for a Global Pan African Congress in September 2,000, adopted the Draft Declaration of Principles and elected Lester Lewis (Prince Ntum ba Azah), the Convenor of the United Kingdom Pan African Congress, as its representative to serve on the Committee to organise the Global Pan African Congress.
www.mumia.org /wwwboard/messages/1751.html   (415 words)

  
 UKPACall
In 1994 a Pan African Congress was held in Kampala, Uganda.
Despite being financed by the Ugandan government the African Marxists who run the Secretariat have made no attempt to organise a democratic non-exclusive Pan African Congress around 17th August 1997 to celebrate the 110th anniversary of the birth of the Honourable Marcus Mosiah Garvey as decided at the 1994 Congress.
In making this call for a UK PAC the Hackney Black People's Association is opening up the process for another Global Pan African Congress to be held on our motherland, Africa in September 2000, exactly 100 years after the first congress.
www.globalafrica.com /UKPACall.htm   (617 words)

  
 African History - Pan-Africanism
It is an "introduction to Blyden's Africanist ideas and his vision of the role of African Americans in the future of Africa." "...given at the 1992 Pan African Congress of North America held in Savannah, Georgia, USA." Includes a biographical outline and bibliography.
A listing of these titles may be found by searching the Center's catalog with the series title "Documents on African Political History." The 28 reel collection can be borrowed by CAMP members and CRL members.
A Benin fabric panel honoring the 1987 centennial of Marcus Garvey's birth which depicts Garvey as politician, scholar, admiral is used to illustrate a conference, Prophets, Visionaries and their Publics in the Afro-Atlantic World, October 9-10, 1998, at the University of Maryland.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/history/hispanafrican.html   (1083 words)

  
 Revolutionary Pan-African Movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
PAC a clear strategy for the destruction of colonialism throughout Africa was defined.
The recent people’s victories in Zimbabwe must be highlighted to all of our valiant brothers and sisters that the struggle for the land will only be effective under the banner of a mass political organization.
The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP) is a permanent, independent, revolutionary, socialist, Pan-African Political Party based in Africa, the just homeland of African People all over the world.
members.aol.com /aaprpmidwest/paf.html   (1785 words)

  
 ALD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The 1945 5th Pan-African Congress (PAC) in Manchester was a watershed event that sparked an intellectual and practical transformation of the objective of Pan-Africanism.
The 5th PAC was fundamentally driven by Africa’s desire for freedom from colonial rule.
Given the lessons learned from slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism, Africans are in the forefront of calling for debt cancellation and control of their countries political structures and economies.
www.afsc.net /ALD2005.html   (1020 words)

  
 Pan African Movement
The Pan African Movement Secretariat was established in April 1994, by the participants at the 7th Pan African Congress held in Kampala, Uganda, April 3 - 9.
The Pan African Movement is being financed by African peoples by way of contributions from governments, orgnaisations, business institutions and individuals.
All the activities of the Pan African Movement are undertaken mostly by committed volunteers, activists and a small staff and support from Pan Africanist individuals, organisations and governments.
www.panafricanmovement.org /Background.htm   (573 words)

  
 Statement of Pan African Congress of Azania
The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania condemns in the strongest language the racist elements that wish to embark upon the execution of this great son of the soil, Africanist, and humanist: MUMIA ABU-JAMAL.
We serve a reminder to all lovers of freedom that October 11 must not only be a day of solidarity with political prisoners, but a day when we demand and indeed fight for their release all over the world.
The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania and the Azanian people committ themselves to the peoples engaged in struggle, who today are convinced that Africans share their combat and are ready to intervene directly at the first call of the directing bodies towards a FREE MUMIA.
www.refuseandresist.org /mumia/1995/pacstat.html   (717 words)

  
 African Liberation Day Highlights Positive Action - Assata Speaks - Hands Off Assata - Let's Get Free - Revolutionary - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The 1945 5th Pan-African Congress in Manchester was a watershed event that catalyzed an intellectual and practical transformation of the objective of Pan-Africanism.
This global African congress brought together people representing organizations of workers, peasants, women, students and seasoned scholar activist like Amy Ashwood Garvey (who would deliver the only statement on women.) WEB Dubois the honorary chair and George Padmore one of the organizing secretaries and major intellectual drivers of the congress.
The congress was sparked by the revolutionary clarity of students led by the West African Students Association.
www.assatashakur.org /forums/upload/showthread.php?p=22665   (998 words)

  
 9th Pan African Congress, Ghana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The 9th Pan African Ornithological Congress, sponsored by the Ghanaian Wildlife Society, was held in Accra, Ghana, 1-8 December 1996.
The Congress’s mission is to promote the scientific study, appreciation, and conservation of African birds, and the theme of this session was "Birds, Habitats, and People." Some 240 delegates from 44 countries attended.
The 10th Pan African Ornithological Congress is slated to be held in Tunisia, and the 22nd International Ornithological Congress will be held in Durban, South Africa, in 1998.
www.ramsar.org /wn/w.n.ghana.htm   (146 words)

  
 The history of Pan-africanism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
African unity and Republic of South Africa's role.
Focus on the Fourth Pan African Congress held in New York City, August 1927, but also conferning the First Congress, Paris 1900.
Pan-Africanism in the perspective of the African diaspora.
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/30/index-fa.html   (145 words)

  
 W.E.B. Du Bois: The Activist Life (pg. 10)
Pan-African Congresses continued to be held in various cities around the world in 1921, 1923, 1927, and 1945.
Speakers at the Pan-African Congress held in Brussels, Belgium, in 1921.
Delegates to the Pan-African Congress in Belgium, 1921.
www.library.umass.edu /spcoll/exhibits/dubois/page10.htm   (313 words)

  
 Pan African Women's Liberation Organization
Increased participation of women in the Pan African Congresses, while putting gender issues at the center of the Pan African Movement Agenda, while continuously assessing progress made towards achieving resolutions of the Congresses.
Pan African Movement, Women's World March International, Akina Mama Wa Africa (AMwA), East African Sub Regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women (EASSI), Women in Law and Development in Africa (WILDAF).
The journal deals with rewriting and reproducing African women's history, their revolutionary struggles, while addressing the status of African women along aspects of health,education, social cultural positions and peace.
www.wougnet.org /Profiles/pawlo.html   (313 words)

  
 IFACCA | International Federation of Arts Councils and Cultural Agencies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Commission of the African Union announces the First Edition of the Pan African Cultural Congress, to be held in Nairobi from 4-9 December, 2005.
Hosted by the Government of the Republic of Kenya in Nairobi, around 200 delegates are expected at the event, centered around the general theme of 'Culture, integration and African renaissance'.
A range of arts and culture professionals, representatives from national administrations and African and international inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations, members of the African Diaspora and foreign specialists on African culture and arts will be invited to participate.
www.ifacca.org /ifacca2/en/new/DisplayEvent.asp?Id=6710   (333 words)

  
 Pan-Africanism: Writings of George Padmore and Kwame Nkrumah & the Maoist view
A trade union conference in 1945 served as the background to the Fifth Congress of the Pan-African Congress.
Kwame Nkrumah was a leader at the Fifth Pan-African Congress.
The Sixth Pan-African Congress was mostly Africans, thanks to the upsurge of anti-imperialist struggle in Africa.
www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/countries/panafrican   (550 words)

  
 Pan-African CD-ROM Database
The Pan African CD-ROM Workstation is an important new resource for African American and African studies.
Through these materials, African art objects are understood to be tools by which African cultures solve problems, resolve conflict and deal with the adversities of daily life.
The African Proverbs Project was designed to promote collection, publication and study of African proverbs with particular attention to their relationship to Christian mission, their role in modern Africa and their significance for a number of academic disciplines.
www.library.uiuc.edu /afx/CD-ROM.htm   (1097 words)

  
 Pan African Power Congress & Expo 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Following the successful launch exhibition in 2004, – the Pan African Power exhibition is now in its 3rd successful year.
The time has never been better for the African power sector to come together to network, learn, do business, debate and drive growth, streamline processes and create new revenue generating opportunities.
The Pan African Power Congress 2006 also features a large scale exhibition supported by the industry leaders and is an ideal opportunity for you to source solutions for your infrastructure needs.
www.panafricanpower.com   (553 words)

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