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5th Pan-African Congress

The fifth in a series of meetings which demanded the end to colonial rule in Africa

Place of event

Manchester

About

The 5th Pan-African Congress took place in Manchester in October 1945. It was organized by George Padmore and included an Indian delegation headed by Surat Alley. The Ceylonese student T. Subasinghe also helped to organize the event. Despite the large turnout of delegates, the conference received scant mention in the British press.

Hakim, Adi and Sherwood, Marika, The 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress Revisited (London: New Beacon Books, 1995)

Banner image credit

The Dome Hospital [Brighton], 1915, H D Girdwood Collection, Shelfmark: Photo 24/1, Courtesy of British Library Board, Usage Term: Public Domain

Image credit

Plaque to commemorate the Fifth Pan African Conference in Manchester 1945

Photo by Nick Harrison, 2014, flickr, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Themes and tags

Network

Citation: ‘5th Pan-African Congress’, South Asian Britain, https://southasianbritain.org/events/5th-pan-african-congress/. Accessed: 30 August 2025.

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