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The Union of African States, was a short lasting union of three West African states, in the 1960s - Mali, Ghana, and Guinea.This union was Marxist politically, and was led by such African revolutionaries as Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Sékou Touré of Guinea, who was president of Guinea.
Front page of Die Transvaler, 7 October 1960, announcing republican victory by 70,000 votes. A referendum on becoming a republic was held in South Africa on 5 October 1960. . The Afrikaner-dominated right-wing National Party, which had come to power in 1948, was avowedly republican and regarded the position of Queen Elizabeth II as the South African monarch as a relic of British imperialism.
African Unity Square (Place de l'Unité Africaine) in Casablanca. The group first met in 1961 in the Moroccan port city of Casablanca, hence the alliance's name.This conference brought together some of the continent's most prominent statesmen like Gamal Abdel-Nasser of Egypt, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Sékou Touré of Guinea.
The Kenya African Union (KAU) was a political organization in colonial Kenya, formed in October 1944 prior to the appointment of the first African to sit in the Legislative Council. In 1960 it became the current Kenya African National Union (KANU).
The Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU) was founded in 1960, to challenge KANU. KADU's aim was to defend the interests of the tribes so-called KAMATUSA (an acronym for Kalenjin , Maasai , Turkana and Samburu ) as well as the European settler community, against the dominance of the larger Luo and Kĩkũyũ tribes that comprised the majority of ...
Known as the Year of Africa, 1960 saw 17 African countries declare independence among other events. ... The Kenya African Democratic Union Party is founded in Kenya, ...
The Union of African States (French: Union des États africains), sometimes called the Ghana–Guinea–Mali Union, was a short-lived and loose regional organization formed in 1958 linking the West African nations of Ghana and Guinea as the Union of Independent African States. Mali joined in 1961. It disbanded in 1963.
In the Conference's own words, it was open to "all national political parties and national trade union congresses or equivalent bodies or organizations that subscribe to the aims and objects of the conference." [2] The Conference met three times: December 1958, January 1960, and March 1961; and had a permanent secretariat with headquarters in ...