THE PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA
P.A.C. AZANIA
The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania
(once known as the Pan Africanist Congress, abbreviated as the
PAC), was a South African liberation movement, and is now a
minor political party. It was founded in 1959 after a number of members
broke away from the African National Congress (ANC)
because they objected to the substitution of the 1949 Programme of
Action with the Freedom Charter adopted in 1955.[1]
Robert Sobukwe was elected as the first president, at the
founding conference held in April 1959 in Johannesburg.
Ideology
It is Pan Africanism with three principles of African nationalism,
socialism,
and continental unity. Its body of ideas drew largely from the
teachings of Anton Lembede, George Padmore, Marcus
Garvey, Kwame Nkrumah, and W. E. B. Du Bois.
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