Pan African Youth Movement

Pan African Youth Movement

Pan African Youth Movement is the former name for the Panafrican Youth Union. Based in Algiers, it changed its name and structure at its last congress in 2003 in Namibia. Formed in 1962 in Conakry, Guinea to rally African youth behind the cause of African liberation. It was most commonly referred to as the PYM.


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