{"id":22103,"date":"2025-10-31T07:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/?p=22103"},"modified":"2025-10-31T07:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:15:09","slug":"the-day-three-future-presidents-visited-chorlton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/the-day-three-future-presidents-visited-chorlton\/","title":{"rendered":"The day three future presidents visited Chorlton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One morning in autumn, three future presidents, a Communist boxer, and a feminist descended on the Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall. In the October of 1945, 87 delegates from more than 20 nations gathered before an audience of hundreds. While Britain&#8217;s soldiers recovered in a newly-freed Europe, veterans from the wider Empire had just returned home to nations still engulfed by imperial violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decades later, organisations across Manchester are looking back on the 80th anniversary of the Fifth Pan-African Congress. Held between 15 and 21 October, 1945 in what is now Man Met&#8217;s Grosvenor East building, the week-long series of meetings encouraged people of African descent to unite against racial injustice, inequality and colonialism in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1178\" height=\"785\" src=\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Second-Pan-African-Congress-at-the-Palais-Mondial-in-September-1921-Image-credit-Mundaneum-Wikimedia-Commons-edited-1.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white image of a crowd of people sat on rows of wooden chairs. The image is taken from behind, and they are looking towards a panel of speakers at the front. Above the speakers is a large painting of a muscled figure. \" class=\"wp-image-22130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Second-Pan-African-Congress-at-the-Palais-Mondial-in-September-1921-Image-credit-Mundaneum-Wikimedia-Commons-edited-1.jpg 1178w, https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Second-Pan-African-Congress-at-the-Palais-Mondial-in-September-1921-Image-credit-Mundaneum-Wikimedia-Commons-edited-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Second-Pan-African-Congress-at-the-Palais-Mondial-in-September-1921-Image-credit-Mundaneum-Wikimedia-Commons-edited-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Second-Pan-African-Congress-at-the-Palais-Mondial-in-September-1921-Image-credit-Mundaneum-Wikimedia-Commons-edited-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1178px) 100vw, 1178px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Second Pan-African Congress, at the Palais Mondial in September 1921 | Image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Deuxi%C3%A8me_Congr%C3%A8s_Panafricain,_au_Palais_Mondial,_%C3%A0_Bruxelles_en_septembre_1921_01.jpg\">Mundaneum, Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Delegates-for-4th-Pan-African-Congress-in-New-York-1927-Image-credit-Wikimedia-Commons-edited.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white image of a crowd of people outside a building. The crowd is majority Black, with an even mix of men and women. They are wearing suits or smart dresses typical of 1920s New York. Behind them is a banner which reads: &quot; DELEGATES TO THE 4TH PAN-AFRICAN CONGRESS, HELD AT NEW YORK CITY, AUG 1927&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-22129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Delegates-for-4th-Pan-African-Congress-in-New-York-1927-Image-credit-Wikimedia-Commons-edited.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Delegates-for-4th-Pan-African-Congress-in-New-York-1927-Image-credit-Wikimedia-Commons-edited-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Delegates-for-4th-Pan-African-Congress-in-New-York-1927-Image-credit-Wikimedia-Commons-edited-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Delegates-for-4th-Pan-African-Congress-in-New-York-1927-Image-credit-Wikimedia-Commons-edited-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Delegates-for-4th-Pan-African-Congress-in-New-York-1927-Image-credit-Wikimedia-Commons-edited-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Delegates for 4th Pan African Congress in New York 1927 | Image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/80\/Delegates_for_4th_PAC_in_New_York_1927.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>With the Congress now being memorialised across a series of talks, exhibitions, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/quayslife.com\/reviews\/liberation-review\/\">biting Royal Exchange production<\/a>, thousands are now looking back on the week said by many to have cracked the ice over African independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8216;How long is this vicious discrimination to continue?&#8217;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>During the First World War, Britain had extended an open hand to the people of their colonies, promising movement towards self-government if they fought for the Allies. The fist was quickly tightened at the final hour, however, and with similar promises made &#8211; and backtracked on &#8211; by Churchill in 1941, simmering demands for decolonisation and racial equality would begin to boil over across the Empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Meanwhile in the UK, competition for labour and jobs after the Second World War would only widen gaps between white and non-white veterans. Against the backdrop of an employment colour bar; Black youth unemployment; racial discrimination; and the sly import of informal segregation from American troops, the delegates gathered at the town hall on the 15th October for the first session of the Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attendees included Hastings Banda of Malawi, Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, and Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, who would all go on to be the first presidents of their free countries. Also with them were the feminist and human rights campaigner Amy Ashwood-Garvey, and Les Johnson, a champion boxer and Communist from Moss Side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Londoners_Protest_Meeting_Against_Racial_Discrimination_leaflet\u03201943\u0320Warwick_Modern_Records_Centre.jpg\" alt=\"A scan of an old sheet of paper, yellowed with age. In the corner of the page is a portrait of a young Black girl, smiling determinedly at the camera. The text reads: &quot;THEY TRIED PUTTING A COLOUR BAN ON HARVESTS \/ This is Amelia King. She was refused work on the land because of her colour. \/ Colour doesn't prevent her father and brother fighting in the Merchant Navy. \/ Press and public clamour exposed this shameful treatment of a Stepney-born girl. \/ THAT IS ONE CASE, HERE IS ANOTHER. \/ Leary Constantine, well-known broadcaster and sportsman, was turned out of the Imperial Hotel. \/ Why? Because of his colour. \/ Coloured folk can die fighting for us, can help destroy Fascism, can help preserve our freedom, but they are not allowed to gather in the harvest or stay at certain hotels. \/ How long is this vicious discrimination to continue? \/ That depends on YOU. Depends on whether you are prepared to add YOUR protest to the growing demand that racial discrimination be ended for ever.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-22106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Londoners_Protest_Meeting_Against_Racial_Discrimination_leaflet\u03201943\u0320Warwick_Modern_Records_Centre.jpg 500w, https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Londoners_Protest_Meeting_Against_Racial_Discrimination_leaflet\u03201943\u0320Warwick_Modern_Records_Centre-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rear face of a Holborn Trades Council leaflet promoting a 1943 anti-discrimination meeting, stored at the University of Warwick Modern Records Centre | Image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Londoners%27_Protest_Meeting_Against_Racial_Discrimination_(leaflet)%CC%A01943%CC%A0Warwick_Modern_Records_Centre.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The group would come to the week-long series of meetings demanding freedom from colonialism &#8211; and, according to future-Ghanaian president Nkrumah, would leave &#8220;knowing definitely where we were going&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8216;There was no question about where this congress should be held&#8217;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision to host the Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester was due in no small part to Manchester businessman and activist T. Ras Makonnen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in British Guiana (now Guyana), Makonnen would move to Manchester following the Second World War and go on to open several restaurants, hotels, a nightclub, and bookshop on Oxford Road. Looking back on the event, Makonnen would later write: &#8220;There was no question about where this congress should be held.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We had all the convenience in Manchester. Fortunately for my people, I had succeeded in establishing myself as a businessman in this place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I knew the Lord Mayor, and also Harold Laski&#8217;s brother, who held an important position in the Labour Party. I was a member of the party myself, and had connections with Bolt, who was the local secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;All of this made it relatively easy to get halls booked for the Congress and simplify the question of hotel accommodation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1022\" src=\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Manchester-Fifth-Pan-African-Conference-1945-plaque-Image-credit-KGGucwa-Wikimedia-Commons.jpg\" alt=\"A red plaque on a concrete wall, with a navy blue outline. A lion insignia is visible at the top. It reads: &quot;FIFTH PAN AFRICAN CONFERENCE. \/ WAS HELD HERE 15TH-21ST OCTOBER 1945 \/ DECISION TAKEN AT THIS CONFERENCE LED TO LIVERATION OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES&quot;. Below is a square plaque which reads: &quot;PARTICIPANTS IN THIS HISTORIC EVENT INCLUDED \/ RAS MAKONNEN, KWAME NKRUMAH, JOMO KENYATTA, AMY CARVEY, W. E. DU BOIS, GEORGE PADMORE&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-22123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Manchester-Fifth-Pan-African-Conference-1945-plaque-Image-credit-KGGucwa-Wikimedia-Commons.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Manchester-Fifth-Pan-African-Conference-1945-plaque-Image-credit-KGGucwa-Wikimedia-Commons-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Manchester-Fifth-Pan-African-Conference-1945-plaque-Image-credit-KGGucwa-Wikimedia-Commons-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Manchester-Fifth-Pan-African-Conference-1945-plaque-Image-credit-KGGucwa-Wikimedia-Commons-768x767.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Manchester Fifth Pan-African Conference 1945 plaque on Grosvenor East | Image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Pan-African_Congress#\/media\/File:Manchester-fifth-pan-african-conference-1.jpg\">KGGucwa, Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Makonnen would become treasurer for the Congress and is named on a plaque commemorating the event on the wall of Grosvenor East. Also named on the plaque is Amy Ashwood-Garvey, described by local historian Dr Parise Carmichael Murphy as &#8220;a real leader in her own right&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Born in Jamaica, she co-founded the Universal Improvement Negro Association,&#8221; she said in a talk on Wednesday, organised between Manchester city council and the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"756\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/W.-E.-B.-Du-Bois-by-Carl-Van-Vechten-taken-on-18-July-1946-Image-credit-Carl-Van-Vechten-756x1024.jpg\" alt=\"W. E. B. Du Bois is an elderly black man with a balding head and grey goatee and moustache. He is wearing a brown pinstripe suit and blue plaid tie. He is slightly smiling at the camera.\" class=\"wp-image-22124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/W.-E.-B.-Du-Bois-by-Carl-Van-Vechten-taken-on-18-July-1946-Image-credit-Carl-Van-Vechten-756x1024.jpg 756w, https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/W.-E.-B.-Du-Bois-by-Carl-Van-Vechten-taken-on-18-July-1946-Image-credit-Carl-Van-Vechten-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/W.-E.-B.-Du-Bois-by-Carl-Van-Vechten-taken-on-18-July-1946-Image-credit-Carl-Van-Vechten-768x1041.jpg 768w, https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/W.-E.-B.-Du-Bois-by-Carl-Van-Vechten-taken-on-18-July-1946-Image-credit-Carl-Van-Vechten.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A kodachrome image of W. E. B. Du Bois by Carl Van Vechten taken on 18 July, 1946 | Image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:W._E._B._Du_Bois_by_Carl_Van_Vechten_(cropped).jpg\">Carl Van Vechten, Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;She [led] in the women&#8217;s sections, co-founded the Negro World newspaper, directed the Black Star Line Steamship Corporation, which is really concerned with repatriating people, funds, and resources back to the African continent.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listed beside them are WE Du Bois, the first African-American to earn a doctorate, and George Padmore, a Communist journalist from Trinidad. Both towering figures within the Pan-Africanist movement, Du Bois had been a key player in arranging past congresses, and Padmore had arranged the fifth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8216;It makes us feel quite close&#8217;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The next Pan-African Congress would not be held until 1974, by which time 19 of the delegates&#8217; nations had been freed from imperial rule. Within a decade, three more would win independence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Manchester congress is widely credited as having tipped progress on anti-colonial efforts across Africa. The Congress was the first to endorse mass action, and the first to recognise racial injustice towards Black Brits living in the UK. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In their written <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisoncensorship.info\/archive\/etext\/countries\/panafrican\/padmorefifthpac1947.html\">Challenge to the Colonial Powers<\/a>, the Congress demanded an end to colonialism; national independence and the return of land; press freedom; the right to education, trade unions, and assembly; and an end to racial discrimination in both the UK and its colonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Fifth-Pan-African-Congress-original-press-release-Image-credit-Leslie-Kerwin-1024x552.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up of a faded typewritten document. The visible words read: &quot;PAN-AFRICAN CONGRESS \/ Head Office: 58, Oxford Road, Manchester. \/ PRESS RELEASE NO.5&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-22120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Fifth-Pan-African-Congress-original-press-release-Image-credit-Leslie-Kerwin-1024x552.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Fifth-Pan-African-Congress-original-press-release-Image-credit-Leslie-Kerwin-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Fifth-Pan-African-Congress-original-press-release-Image-credit-Leslie-Kerwin-768x414.jpg 768w, https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Fifth-Pan-African-Congress-original-press-release-Image-credit-Leslie-Kerwin-1536x828.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Fifth-Pan-African-Congress-original-press-release-Image-credit-Leslie-Kerwin.jpg 1947w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fifth Pan-African Congress original press release | Image credit: Leslie Kerwin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It also, according to Dr Carmichael Murphy, became a new foundation for generations of activists: Kath Locke, the co-founder of Moss Side&#8217;s Abasindi Co-operative in 1980, was said to have been inspired by the movement in her efforts to create a space for Black women in the community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s lots of ways small people can be big,&#8221; Dr Carmichael Murphy said. &#8220;Kath Locke was working at one of Ras Makennon&#8217;s restaurants. She was around people like Jomo Kenyatta and George Padmore, and she wasn&#8217;t the only person in Manchester either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A lot of Black women&#8217;s activism throughout 70s, 80s, and 90s did really build on this Pan-Africanist approach as well. The Black Women&#8217;s Cooperative, Abyssinia Cooperative, they really had Pan-Africanism instilled in their actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t necessarily say that the country was happy that the Congress was hosted. I think because the Congress was self funded, that made it difficult for them to stop. But what I will say is that in years afterwards Manchester has been active, and Manchester city council itself has been active in celebrating the Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"631\" src=\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Fifth-Pan-African-Congress-talk-attendees-Image-credit-Leslie-Kerwin-1-1024x631.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of people stand talking in separate groups inside a white room. Some rows of chairs are visible, but no one is sitting.\" class=\"wp-image-22125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Fifth-Pan-African-Congress-talk-attendees-Image-credit-Leslie-Kerwin-1-1024x631.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Fifth-Pan-African-Congress-talk-attendees-Image-credit-Leslie-Kerwin-1-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Fifth-Pan-African-Congress-talk-attendees-Image-credit-Leslie-Kerwin-1-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Fifth-Pan-African-Congress-talk-attendees-Image-credit-Leslie-Kerwin-1-1536x947.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2025\/10\/Fifth-Pan-African-Congress-talk-attendees-Image-credit-Leslie-Kerwin-1.jpg 1859w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fifth Pan-African Congress talk attendees | Image credit: Leslie Kerwin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I do think what&#8217;s interesting is that we&#8217;re celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Congress this year, and the plaque was installed for the 40th, and so we are as far away from the installation of the plaque as they were from the Congress itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I do think that makes us feel quite close, and not that historical.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One morning in autumn, three future presidents, a Communist boxer, and a feminist descended on the Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall. 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