Monrovia group

Conference of African States hosted by Liberia's President William Tubman (1961)

The so-called Monrovia Group (also Monrovia States or Monrovia Block , but actually Conference of African States ) was a group of African states that, after gaining their independence, represented a moderate pan-Africanism . It was named after the conference of 20 conservative African states that was held from May 8 to 12, 1961 in the Liberian capital Monrovia .

The core of the Monrovia group were the twelve francophone countries of the Brazzaville group, which was formed in 1960 (Dahomé-Benin, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, Madagascar, Mauritania, Niger, Upper Volta, Senegal, Chad, Central Africa); there were also Togo, Congo-Leopoldville (Zaire), Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Somalia, Tunisia and Liberia.

The pro-western Monrovia group was the counterpart to the so-called Casablanca group . The Brazzaville Group or the Monrovia Group was viewed by the states of the Casablanca Group as " neocolonialist ". While the Charter of Casablanca in January 1961 advocated a strictly neutralist and radical course aimed at rapid pan-African unity, the participants at the Monrovia conference in May 1961 agreed on five principles of fraternal relations and in January 1962 a charter on inter-African cooperation. Both the Monrovia Group and the Casablanca Group dissolved in 1963 in favor of the Organization for African Unity (OAU), but the Monrovia Charter prevailed when the OAU was founded.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gustav Fochler-Hauke (ed.): Der Fischer Weltalmanach 1962 , page 280f. Frankfurt am Main 1961
2. ↑ ^{a b} Dieter Nohlen (Ed.): Lexicon Third World , page 410. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1984
3. ↑ Gustav Fochler-Hauke (Ed.): Der Fischer Weltalmanach 1964 , page 236. Frankfurt am Main 1963

Web link

• English page about the contrast between the Casablanca and Monrovia groups and the effects on the establishment of the OAU