ALL AFRICAN PEOPLE’S CONFERENCE 1958

All African people's conference was African international conference which held in Ghana at Acra city in 1958 ,December 9.A year after Ghana gained Independence from Britain under the presidency of Kwame Nkurumah Nkrumah felt that Ghana independence would be meaningless if other African states are still colonised by the European powers. In April 1958, Nkrumah as the pioneer of the ideology of Pan-Africanism convened the Conference of All Independent African States (Libya, Ethiopia, Liberia, Morocco, Tunisia, Sudan United Republic of Egypt and Ghana), which was followed by the historic A A P Conference. The A A P Conference was attended by all independent and non-independent African states, liberation movements and public organisations. One of African prominent political figure attended this conference was Patrice Lumumba. Lumumba was appointed a member of a permanent organisation established at the conference while  Tom Mboya General Secretary of the KENYA FEDERATION LABOUR, was elected chairman.
 The first conference was preceded by a Preparatory Committee composed of representatives from the eight independent African states—other than South Africa. (They were Ethopia, Ghana, Guinea,Liberia, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and the United Arab Republic.) The conference itself was attended by delegates from 28 African countries and colonies .
The slogan for the conference was "Hands off Africa". The A. A. P Conference met to chart a way forward on how to achieve continental freedom. The agenda of the conference entailed anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, anti-racialism, African Unity and non-alignment. Other issues discussed at the conference included colonial boundaries, the role of the traditional and religious leaders and regional groupings. The Conference emerged with some few resolutions. The Conference undertook to use no violence in all endeavours to achieve independence in African continent. This commitment was put into practice when the conference refused to support the Algerian armed struggle to achieve its independence from France.
Apart from that, another thing which create stir  the meeting was touching speech from the wife of African revolutionist W.E Du Bois since her husband was sick by then.In that meeting W.E Du Bois wife insting on the importance of African freedom and to spearhead on other African countries to be free.Splendid the meeting was geared to make Africa is free and Unite Africa as one Nation with different states. This conference spear other revolutionist such as Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere from Tanganyika to demand for freedom apart from fighting for other countries freedom.Below is the part of speech from Dr. Du Bois which red by his wife .

 

Kwame was pioneered for this movement and remembered by these words " Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation. The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there to be a common language, a common territory and common culture has failed to stand the test of time or the scrutiny of scientific definition of objective reality... The community of economic life is the major feature within a nation, and it is the economy which holds together the people living in a territory. It is on this basis that the new Africans recognise themselves as potentially one nation, whose dominion is the entire African continent."