The International African Service Bureau ( IASB ) was a pan-African organisation founded in London in 1937 by West Indians George Padmore , C. L. R. James , Amy Ashwood Garvey , T. Ras Makonnen and Kenyan nationalist Jomo Kenyatta and Sierra Leonean labour activist and agitator I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson . Chris Braithwaite (also known as Jones), was Secretary of this organisation.
5-711: The bureau emerged from the International African Friends of Abyssinia ( Ethiopia ) and intended to address issues relating to Africa and the African diaspora to the British general public. Similar in design and organization to the West African Youth League , the IASB also sought to inform the public about the grievances faced by those in colonial Africa and created a list of desired reforms and freedoms that would help
10-525: The International African Friends of Ethiopia , was an organisation established in 1935 in London , England, to protest against Italian aggression against Abyssinia (see Second Italo-Ethiopian War ). Its membership was composed of many important Pan-African figures, several of whom later formed the International African Service Bureau . The International African Friends of Abyssinia (IAFA)
15-713: The colonies. The bureau also hoped to encourage new African trade unions to affiliate themselves with the British labour movement. To further its interest, it held weekly meetings at Hyde Park , where members discussed labor strikes in the Caribbean and Ethiopia . It also supplied speakers to branches of the Labour Party , trade unions and the League of Nations Union and provided questions to be asked in front of Parliament regarding legislation, working conditions and trade union regulations. The IASB journal, International African Opinion ,
20-702: Was edited by C. L. R. James. In 1939 the IASB worked alongside the League of Coloured Peoples and the West African Students Union to campaign against the colour bar introduced by Adjutant-General Robert Gordon-Finlayson in the British Army . The organisation lasted until about 1945. This article about an organization in Africa is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . International African Friends of Abyssinia The International African Friends of Abyssinia ( IAFA ), also known as
25-482: Was founded by C. L. R. James with assistance from fellow West Indians Amy Ashwood Garvey and Chris Brathwaite . IAFA's first public meeting was held on 23 July 1935, with another public meeting taking place days later on Sunday, 28 July, at Memorial Hall in Farringdon Street , London, and was widely reported in newspapers. George Padmore and Ras Makonnen joined IAFA soon after its founding. Throughout
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