The United kingdom Pan African Congress was held from 15th August to 17th August 1998. It was a celebration of the 111th birthday of The Honourable Marcus Mosiah Garvey. This comprised two days of discussion and debate around the question WHAT IS TO BE DONE to solve the problems we have in Britain and internationally, and the Marcus Garvey 111th Birthday Children's Festival. These were held at the South Place Ethical Society's, Conway Hall, Holborn, London WC1.

The Congress adopted Resolutions on the following:

1. UNBAN KWAME NKRUMAH'S CONVENTION PEOPLES PARTY.

The Congress called on the Rawlins Government in Ghana to unban Kwame Nkrumah's Convention Peoples Party. Congress noted that the CPP was banned after the foreign inspired coup which overthrew Nkrumah's Government in 1966 and the ban has never been lifted.

2. MAKING MARCUS GARVEY'S BIRTHDAY AN AFRICAN HOLIDAY.

Congress called on Africans everywhere, both on the continent and off the continent, to agitate and demand that their governments make Marcus Garvey's Birthday, the seventeenth day of August every year, a National Holiday. Congress called on all AFRICAN Governments and those in the Caribbean, to recognise the monumental contribution Marcus Garvey has made towards African Unity and liberation, and make Marcus Garvey's Birthday a National Holiday.

3. THE AFRICAN PASSPORT

Congress called on the African masses to agitate and demand that their governments work towards the creation of the African Passport so that African people, whether they are born on the Continent or in the Diaspora, can travel freely, throughout the length and breadth of Africa, with the right to live, work and die anywhere in Africa that they choose. Congress called on African Governments to take positive steps towards the creation of the African Passport.

4. LIFTING THE BANS ON MlNISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN and KWAME TURE

Despite reservations about Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam's involvement with the oppresssive neocolonialist Rawlins regime in Ghana, the hated, tyranical Abacha regime in Nigeria and the oppressive Islamic regime in Sudan, Congress called on the British Home Secretary Jack Straw to stop pandering to Zionists, racists, white supremacists and white collar terrorists and LIFT THE BANS ON FARRAKHAN and on KWAME TURE.

 5. GLOBAL PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS, SEPTEMBER 2000.

Congress supported the call for a Global Pan African Congress in September 2,000, adopted the Draft Declaration of Principles and elected Lester Lewis (Prince Ntum ba Azah), the Convenor of the United Kingdom Pan African Congress, as its representative to serve on the Committee to organise the Global Pan African Congress.

6. HUMAN RIGHTS IN GHANA.

Congress re-affirmed its commitment to freedom of conscience and freedom of expression; expressed its solidarity with and support for imprisoned Ghanian Journalists, Kweku Baako Jnr., A.R. Harruna Attah and Ato Sam; and called on Africans and friends of Africa to join the struggle against neo-colonial tyrants and their imperialist masters.

The Congress was attended by Koro Sallah, a member of The Movement For Justice in Africa (Gambia Section).

Issued by: Lester Lewis Convenor, UKPAC I 9th August 1998.

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