London Conference (1900)
The London Conference of 1900 (also: First Pan-African Conference ) was one of the first Pan-African meetings on an international level. She wanted to raise awareness of the discrimination against people with black skin color and sought better political representation of her interests. The term Pan-Africanism was coined at the conference .
The conference from July 23 to 25, 1900 was organized by the London African Association around Trinidad and Tobago- born lawyer Henry Sylvester Williams . The conference participants came from Liberia , Ethiopia , the Gold Coast and the African diaspora in England , the Caribbean and North America . Only four of the participants came from Africa, eleven from the USA, ten from the Caribbean and one from Canada.
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- ↑ Edward O. Erhagbe: Assistance and Conflict: The African Diaspora and African Development in the Twenty-first Century . In: Africa Development . tape XXXII , no. 2 , 2007, ISSN 0850-3907 , p. 24–40 ( codesria.org [PDF; accessed August 10, 2008]).
- ^ Ali A. Mazrui: On boundaries and the bloodline . In: Annual Mazrui newsletter . No. 25 , 2001 ( binghamton.edu [PDF; accessed August 11, 2008]). On boundaries and the bloodline ( Memento of the original dated August 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Franz Ansprenger: History of Africa , page 53.Beck Munich 2002
