Sunday, September 9, 2012

The New African


After the fifth Pan-African Congress, which took place in Manchester, England, in October 1945, a group of West African nationalists founded the West African National Secretariat, based in London. Kwame Nkrumah was its secretary-general. The secretariat's objective was to make plans for a federation of independent states. In March 1946, the group launched its journal, The New African. Due to lack of funds, only a few issues ever appeared.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Video Art And The Decline of “(High)story”?

The word “history” came into being, because our events were told and written down thereafter. Now history is being recorded in images or vid...