Presidents Modibo Keita of Mali, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Sekou Toure of Guinea.
Sanniquellie
After the meeting in Accra, another meeting discussing the unity of Africa was held in Sanniquellie, a town in Liberia. Among the attendants of this meeting were President William Tubman, the host, Guinea’s Ahmed Sékou Touré and Ghana’s Nkrumah.
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Both Toure and Nkrumah were looking to unite their countries, and in the process tried to bring the rest of independent Africa to the fold. They were then invited to Liberia by Tubman to confer the question of a United Africa.
The Sanniquellie Declaration, which outlined the principles of united yet independent African states, was signed in this city in 1959.
