Groups & Organizations in Global African History
British West Indies Regiment
Image courtesy Imperial War Museum (Q1201)
Image courtesy Imperial War Museum (Q1201)
Mouride Sufi Brotherhood
The Mouride Sufi Brotherhood is a sect of Islam that boasts over four million followers today, mostly concentrated in Senegal...
Organization of African Unity (1963-2002)
The Organization of African Unity (OAU, 1963-2002) was an alliance of independent African nations working to enhance cooperation between the...
Belizean Kriols
By the 1500s, black slaves had been distributed through much of the Caribbean. Slavery, however, began much later in Central...
The Garifuna People
In 1635, two Spanish ships were wrecked near what is now St. Vincent in the West Indies. The ships held...
Tirailleurs Sénégalais in the Indochina War (1947-1954)
The Indochina War (1947-1954) pitted the French Colonial government against the Vietminh, the Communist Vietnamese devoted to the liberation of...
African Democratic Rally (1946- )
The African Democratic Rally, known as Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (RDA), was the first French-speaking Pan-African organization. Created in 1946 at...
Pan Africanist Congress of Azania
The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) was officially established on April 5-6, 1959 with the goal of ending white domination in...
South African Students’ Organization (SASO)
The South African Students’ Organization (SASO) emerged in 1968 as a unique group that re-established opposition to the South African...
Mau Mau (1952-1960)
The Mau Mau Uprising, a revolt against colonial rule in Kenya, lasted from 1952 through 1960 and helped to hasten...
