Convention Africaine

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Convention Africaine
CAf
Party leader Léopold Sédar Senghor
Party leader Léopold Sédar Senghor
Secretary General Alexandre Adandé
founding 11-13 January 1957
Place of foundation Dakar , French West Africa
resolution March 1958
newspaper L'Unité

The Convention Africaine (abbreviation: CAf ) was a political party in French West Africa .

history

The founding congress of Convention Africaine, convened by Léopold Sédar Senghor , took place from January 11th to 13th, 1957 in Dakar , the capital of French West Africa. The participants in the congress were members of the Indépendants d'Outre-Mer , a parliamentary group of the French National Assembly . The from Senegal native deputies Senghor was party chairman. Alexandre Adandé from Dahomey was appointed general secretary of the party .

The Africaine Convention sought to create two federations in the French areas of Africa, which should be member states of a federally organized French republic. Like the African Socialist Movement (MSA), founded at the same time, and the older African Democratic Collection (RDA), the Africaine Convention was organized interterritorially and consisted of several member parties in the individual French overseas territories in West Africa. From Niger , the Forces Démocratiques Nigériennes, called the successor party of the Union of Independent Nigerians and Sympathizers (UNIS), joined the Convention Africaine on March 6, 1957 . Former UNIS party leader Ikhia Zodi became editor of the CAf party newspaper L'Unité .

In March 1958 there was another party merger and the Convention Africaine merged with the African Socialist Movement (MSA) in the Party of the African Union (PRA).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Léopold Sédar Senghor: la pensée et l'action politique. Actes du colloque organisé par la section française de l'Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie (PDF; 943 kB). French National Assembly website, accessed 29 January 2013, p. 96.
  2. ^ Joseph Roger de Benoist: Léopold Sédar Senghor (= Politiques & Chrétiens. Vol. 14). Beauchesne, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-7010-1378-X , pp. 81-82.
  3. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 271.
  4. ↑ Ikhia Aboubekr ZODI . French National Assembly website, accessed 29 January 2013.
  5. ↑ Meinrad P. Hebga: Afrique de la raison, Afrique de la foi. Karthala, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-86537-562-5 , p. 13.