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- ↑ "Pan African Congress in Manchester, 1945", Working Class Movement Library.
- ↑ Hakim Adi, "George Padmore and the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress", in Fitzroy Baptiste and Rupert Lewis (eds), George Padmore: Pan-African Revolutionary, Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle, 2009, pp. 69–70.
- ↑ Adi, "George Padmore and the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress", in Baptiste and Lewis (2009), p. 81.
- ↑ David J. Francis, Uniting Africa: Building Regional Peace and Security Systems, Ashgate Publishing, 2006, p. 13.
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