Casablanca Group

The Casablanca Group was a backgrounds got from 3 to 7 January 1961 at the Moroccan city of Casablanca group of "progressive " African, consisting of Algeria's government in exile, Egypt, Ghana, Guinea, Libya, Mali, Sudan, and - briefly - Morocco ( Morocco left-liberal Premier Abdallah Ibrahim had indeed invited to the conference, but had been released shortly before). The leaders of these mostly just newly independent states joined for a united Africa ( "Africa must unite! " ) And a consistent decolonization. Sékou Touré of Guinea and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah were leading figures in the group.

( The independent since 1962) Algeria, Egypt, Ghana, Guinea, Mali and Morocco later also agreed on the formation of a common African market. In 1963, a Customs Union in force, but in the same year, the group broke into the newly formed Organization of African Unity (OAU ) on.

Conservative counterpart of the Casablanca group was also established in 1961 Monrovia Group, whose representatives were verbally abused by members of the Casablanca group as " lackeys of colonialism ".

Place de l' Unite Africaine in Casablanca

A street name in Casablanca reminiscent of the meeting that the group of participating States was named. Today, the Place de l' Unite Africaine but seems to correspond to the widespread lack of Morocco in African unity. The place is little more than an unkempt and transport links rather insignificant roundabout island. Apart from the name, there is no plaque or similar. In the outgoing from the Place de l' Unite Africaine streets are only a few hundred meters from the square to the consulates of the United States and Spain and the Parc de la Ligue Arabe.

Others

As Casablanca group and the rather bourgeois wing in 1959, founded by Abdullah Ibrahim and 1972 broken apart Union Nationale des Forces Populaires has been designated, in contrast to the more leftist wing of the Rabat group.