The Pan-African Congress is a regular series of meetings that originally took place on the back of the Pan-African Conference held in London, England, in 1900.
Members of the Second Pan African Conference, Brussels, 1921
Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to the NAACP, January 1919, about planning the First Pan African Congress.
Session in the Palais Mondial, Brussels, 1921
Delegates from Oregon for the Fourth Pan African Congress in New York, 1927.
The decolonisation of Africa was a series of political developments in Africa between the mid-1950s to 1976, during the Cold War. Colonial governments formed during the Scramble for Africa collapsed,
Pan-African Congress
…place on the back of the Pan-African Conference held in London, England, in 1900. The Pan-African Congress first gained a reputation as a peacemaker for decolonization in Africa and in the West Indies, and made a significant advance for the Pan-African cause. Among the group's primary demands from the outset was the cessation…
Equestrian statue of Leopold II of Belgium, the sovereign of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908, Regent Place in Brussels, Belgium
A Muslim mosque in Algeria
Monument to those killed in the first independence protest, the Sétif and Guelma massacre
Algerian women in the Algerian War of Independence