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Reflections on the Fiftieth Anniversary Commemoration of the Fifth Pan-African Congress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Barbara Ransby
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The fifth Pan-African Congress was held in Manchester, England in October 1945 with a great roster of delegates who would play, and had played, critical roles in the advancement of Black freedom: W.E.B. DuBois, Kwame Nkrumah, George Padmore, and Jomo Kenyatta, to name a few. It was an historic gathering held at a point in history when the defeat of fascism in Europe and the impending demise of colonialism in Africa and the Caribbean were great causes for optimism among progressive people the world over. The manifesto issued by the Congress delegates exposed the atrocities of colonialism, tapped into the universal language of anti-fascism, and thereby hastened the process of decolonization.

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Research Article
Information
African Issues , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , 1996 , pp. 34 - 35
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1996 

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Barbara Ransby received her Ph.D. in African-American history from the University of Michigan. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago in the Departments of History and Black Studies and is an editor of the London-based Race and Class. She is a feminist who is finishing a manuscript on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement leader, Ella Baker.