African Socialist Movement Mouvement Socialiste Africain | |
|---|---|
| President | Lamine Guèye |
| General Secretary | Barry III |
| Founder | Lamine Guèye Djibo Bakary Barry III |
| Founded | 13 January 1957 |
| Merged into | PRA |
| Ideology | Socialism |
African Socialist Movement (French:Mouvement Socialiste Africain,MSA) was a political party inFrench West Africa. The MSA was formed following a meeting of theSection française de l'Internationale ouvrière (SFIO) federations ofCameroon,Chad, theFrench Congo (now theRepublic of the Congo andGabon),French Sudan (nowMali),Guinea,Niger,Oubangui-Chari (now theCentral African Republic), andSenegal; the meeting was held inConakry from 11 to 13 January 1957. At that meeting it was decided that the African federations would break with its French parent organisation and form the MSA.[1]
The first meeting of the leading committee of MSA met from 9 to 10 February inDakar the same year. Two SFIO delegates attended the session. MSA opted for afederalist solution for French West Africa. On 26 March 1958, the MSA signed a declaration in Paris merging itself into theAfrican Regroupment Party (PRA).[1]
At its founding,Lamine Guèye became the president of MSA,Barry III the general secretary andDjibo Bakary the deputy general secretary.[2]
The Senegalese section of MSA was theSenegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS), and it was led byLamine Guèye.[1] In Guinea, theSocialist Democracy of Guinea was the section of MSA.[3] TheSudanese section of MSA was theProgressive Sudanese Party, while what became the Niger section retained the MSA name as theMouvement Socialiste Africain-Sawaba.[4]
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