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The Fifth Pan-African Congress held in Manchester in October 1945 was a landmark occasion for Africa. The attendee list included the likes of Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenyatta, Hastings Banda and Obafemi Awolowo. That gathering gave these men the impetus to return to their countries with the call of “Self Government Now!” The independence movements they led would achieve just that.