African Socialist Movement

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African Socialist Movement
MSA
Party leader Lamine Guèye
Party leader Lamine Guèye
Secretary General Ibrahima Barry
founding 11-13 January 1957
Place of foundation Conakry , French West Africa
resolution March 1958
Alignment socialism

The African Socialist Movement ( French : Mouvement Socialiste Africaine , abbreviation: MSA ) was a political party in the French overseas territories in Africa .

history

The African Socialist Movement was founded at a meeting of the African branches of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), which took place in Conakry from January 11-13, 1957 . The goal of founding the party was greater freedom of action in specific African problems without completely breaking the bridges to the SFIO. Lamine Guèye from Senegal , General Secretary Ibrahima Barry from Guinea and Deputy General Secretary Djibo Bakary from Niger became party chairman of the MSA .

The interterritorial organized MSA united several socialist- oriented member parties from the French overseas territories in Africa under one roof. The member parties included the Parti Socialiste Démocrate (PSD-MSA) from Madagascar and the Comoros , the Parti Socialiste Camerounaise (PSC-MSA) from Cameroon , the Union Franco-Guinéenne (UFG-MSA) from Guinea, the Parti Sénégalais d 'Action Sociale (PSAS-MSA) from Senegal and a parliamentary group from Niger later called Sawaba , which was created through the merger of the Nigerien Democratic Union (UDN) and the Nigerien Action Block (BNA).

In March 1958, the MSA merged with the Convention Africaine, among others, to form a new major party, the African Union Party (PRA).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Joseph Roger de Benoist: Léopold Sédar Senghor . Beauchesne, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-7010-1378-X , p. 81.
  2. ↑ Elizabeth Schmidt: Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946-1958 . Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 2007, ISBN 978-0-8214-1763-8 , pp. 136-137.
  3. ↑ a b Meinrad P. Hebga: Afrique de la raison, Afrique de la foi . Karthala, Paris 1995, ISBN 978-2-86537-562-2 , p. 13.
  4. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 271.