Padmore, George

Japanese: パドモア（英語表記）Padmore， George

Born: 1902/1903 Tacarigua
[Died] September 23, 1959, Accra
A representative Pan-Africanist from the late 1930s to the late 1950s. His real name was Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse. He was of African descent from Trinidad. He graduated from Pamfilian High School and worked at a publishing company for a time. He moved to the United States in 1924 and studied law at Fisk University, New York University, and Howard University Law School. He joined the Communist Party of America in 1927. In 1928, he changed his name and became editor of the party's newspaper for black people in Harlem, the Negro Champion (renamed the Liberator in 1929). In 1929, he attended the second conference of the League for National Independence against Imperialism (LAI), and thereafter worked mainly in Europe to link the communist movement with the black movement. In 1930, he made an effort to organize the first International Conference of Black Workers. Around the time of his expulsion from Comintern in June 1934, he became more inclined towards Pan-Africanism, and contributed to the establishment of the Pan-African League at the end of 1944. He continued to be devoted to the Pan-African movement, mainly in London, and in 1957 he moved to independent Ghana, where, as a political advisor to Nkrumah, he played a major role in convening the First African Conference (April 1958) and the First All-African People's Conference (December 1958).

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[生]1902/1903. タカリグア
[没]1959.9.23. アクラ
1930年代後半から 50年代末期にかけての代表的な汎アフリカ主義者。本名 Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse。トリニダード出身のアフリカ系人。パンフィリアン高校を卒業し一時出版社に勤務。 24年渡米し，フィスク大学を経てニューヨーク大学，ハワード大学の法学院で法律学を学んだ。 27年アメリカ共産党に入党。 28年改名し，ハーレムの黒人向け党機関紙『ニグロ・チャンピオン』 (1929年『リベレーター』と改称) の編集者。 29年反帝国主義民族独立同盟 LAIの第2回会議に出席，以後主としてヨーロッパを舞台に共産主義運動と黒人運動の連結化のために活動。 30年第1回黒人労働者国際会議開催に尽力。 34年6月コミンテルンから追放された前後から汎アフリカ主義への傾斜を強め，44年末の汎アフリカ連盟設立に貢献。以後も主としてロンドンにあって汎アフリカ運動に没頭，57年独立ガーナに移り，エンクルマの政治顧問として第1回アフリカ諸国会議 (58.4.) ，第1回全アフリカ人民会議 (58.12.) の開催に大きな役割を果した。

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