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Which future African leader attended the 1945 Pan-African Congress with Jomo Kenyatta?
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Jomo Kenyatta
African statesman and nationalist Jomo Kenyatta was the first prime minister (1963–64) and then the first president (1964–78) of independent Kenya.
The future African leader who attended the 1945 Pan-African Congress alongside Jomo Kenyatta was Kwame Nkrumah, who later became the first president of Ghana.12
Held in Manchester, England, the fifth Pan-African Congress was a pivotal event where Kenyatta and Nkrumah, along with other prominent figures like W.E.B. Du Bois, organized and discussed strategies for mass nationalist movements to demand independence from colonial rule.13