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5th Pan-African Congress
The fifth in a series of meetings which demanded the end to colonial rule in Africa
Place of event
Manchester
About
The 5th Pan-African Congress took place in Manchester in October 1945. It was organized by George Padmore and included an Indian delegation headed by Surat Alley. The Ceylonese student T. Subasinghe also helped to organize the event. Despite the large turnout of delegates, the conference received scant mention in the British press.
Hakim, Adi and Sherwood, Marika, The 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress Revisited (London: New Beacon Books, 1995)
Image credit
Plaque to commemorate the Fifth Pan African Conference in Manchester 1945
Photo by Nick Harrison, 2014, flickr, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
