What is African Socialist Movement?

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African Socialist Movement (in French: Mouvement Socialiste Africain) was a political party in French West Africa. MSA was formed following a meeting of the SFIO federations of Senegal, Guinea, French Sudan, Niger, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Gabon and Oubangui-Chari held in Conakry January 11 - January 13 1957. At that meeting it was decided that the African federations would break with its French parent organisation and form MSA.

The first meeting of the leading committee of MSA met in Dakar February 9 - February 10 the same year. Two SFIO delegated attended the session. MSA opted for a federalist solution for French West Africa.

March 26 1958 MSA signs a declaration in Paris merging itself into the African Regroupment Party (PRA).

The Senegalese section of MSA was the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS) led by Lamine Guèye.

Source: Zuccarelli, François. La vie politique sénégalaise (1940-1988). Paris: CHEAM, 1988.

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