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One of the All-African People Conference in Accra. Photo: Facebook

Accra

The first Pan African meeting ever organised was held in Accra, Ghana in 1958. Called the All-African People’s Conference, it was organised by Kwame Nkrumah. Among the countries that attended the meeting were Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Sudan.

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Some of the issues discussed included the final assault on colonialism, use of non-violent means in agitating for independence, the formation of a permanent secretariat to handle national issues to help the achievement of independence as well as the condemnation of racism and tribalism and especially apartheid in South Africa.

They also discussed a union of Africa or the Commonwealth of African states at this meeting.