The 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress Revisited
With Colonial and...Coloured Unity (The Report of the 5th Pan-African Congress)

The 5th Pan-African Congress held in Manchester 1945, was a major event of the 20th century. Just over a decade later, Ghana, formerly the Gold Coast, became independent in 1957. India had already been independent for a decade, since 1947. George Padmore and Kwame Nkrumah were central to this achievement, and with their organisation of the All Africa Peoples Conference in 1958, the movement for Independence in Africa moved forward in open defiance and contest with old colonial European empires.

Hakim Adi and Marika Sherwood provide remarkable information and analysis about the background and substance of that historic moment. They also throw important light on the Black, Caribbean and Asian anti-colonial movement in Britain in 1945, and the demand for change in Britain itself.