All-African Trade Union Federation

All-African Trade Union Federation

Infobox Union
name= All-African Trade Union Federation
country= African region
affiliation= Independent
members=
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founded= 1959
current=
head=
dissolved_date= 1973
dissolved_state= Merged into
merged_into= OATUU
office=
people=
website=
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The All-African Trade Union Federation (AATUF) was a Pan-African trade union organisation, formed in November 1959 on the initiative of president Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. The secretary of AATUF was Amadou N'diaye.

In 1973 AATUF was replaced by the Organization of African Trade Union Unity (OATUU).

Bibliography

* Agyeman, Opoku, "The Failure of Grassroots Pan-Africanism: The Case of the All-African Trade Union Federation", ISBN 0-7391-0620-1.


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