George Padmore
1903 – 1959 Trinidadian Pan-Africanist, journalist, political organiser
Trinidadian Pan-Africanist who broke with the Comintern and became a chief organiser of the movement and an adviser to Nkrumah.
- Affiliations
- Communist International (former), International African Service Bureau, Convention People's Party
George Padmore was a leading Pan-African organiser who worked within the Communist International in the early 1930s before breaking with it over its subordination of the colonial question. He helped organise the pivotal Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester in 1945 and wrote widely on colonialism and race. He became a close adviser to Kwame Nkrumah and moved to Ghana after its independence. He is regarded as one of the architects of twentieth-century Pan-Africanism.
Connections
- associate of C.L.R. James — Childhood friend from Trinidad and fellow Pan-Africanist.
- mentor of Kwame Nkrumah — Adviser and mentor to Nkrumah, later working in Ghana.
- mentor of Kwame Nkrumah — Padmore was his adviser and Pan-African mentor.
- associate of Ras Makonnen — Co-organiser of the Manchester congress.
- associate of W.E.B. Du Bois — Co-organisers of the Pan-African congress movement.
In the timeline
- 1903 Malcolm Nurse is born in Trinidad mentioned
- 1930 The International Conference of Negro Workers at Hamburg mentioned
- 1931 Falling in with the League Against Imperialism and George Padmore central figure
- 1931 George Padmore's journal The Negro Worker central figure
- 1932 Kenyatta's Journeys to Moscow mentioned
- 1934 George Padmore breaks with Moscow central figure
- 1935 MI5 tracks George Padmore in London central figure
- 1945 The Fifth Pan-African Congress at Manchester mentioned
- 1945 Joint secretary of the Fifth Pan-African Congress mentioned
- 1945 Fifth Pan-African Congress opens in Manchester chief organiser
- 1945 Manchester congress demands full independence organiser
- 1945 Nkrumah moves to London and works with George Padmore central figure
- 1945 Nkrumah serves as joint secretary of the Fifth Pan-African Congress mentioned
- 1958 All-African Peoples' Conference meets in Accra mentioned