African Convention

The Convention Africaine ( Abbreviation: CAF) was a political party in French West Africa.

History

The convened by Leopold Sedar Senghor founding congress of the Convention Africaine took 11 to 13 January 1957 in Dakar instead, the capital of French West Africa. The Congress -end side were members of the Independants d' Outre- Mer, a parliamentary faction of the French National Assembly. Originally from Senegal Senghor was deputy chairman of the party. General Secretary of the party Alexandre Adande of Dahomey was determined.

The Convention Africaine aimed at the creation of two federations in the French regions of Africa, which should be a federalist member states organized the French Republic. The Convention Africaine was like the African Socialist Movement ( MSA) exactly the same time founded and the older African Democratic collection ( RDA) inter- territorially organized and consisted of several member parties in the various French overseas territories in West Africa. For Niger, the Democratic Forces Nigériennes called successor party to the union of independent people in Niger and sympathizers joined on March 6, 1957 ( UNIS ) of the Convention on Africaine. Former party chairman UNIS Ikhia Zod was editor of the party newspaper L' Unité CAF.

In March 1958, a further party merger and the Convention Africaine went together with the African Socialist Movement (MSA ) in the party of the African composite ( PRA) on.

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