Caroline Kamau

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Dr. Caroline Kamau is the president of the African Unification Front, also called the African Front, or AUF. The AUF is one of the largest and most influential Pan African organizations in the world. Dr. Caroline Kamau also chairs the AUF National Committee, the policy-making body of the African Unification Front.

1 Pan Africanism
2 Background
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Pan Africanism

The AUF National Committee is the body that elects the AUF president. As AUF president Dr. Kamau is a stautory member of the AUF Executive Committee, the body that implements policies and oversees the day-to-day administration of the AUF. Caroline Kamau has been responsible for initiating and organizing several AUF strategies, including the AUF's Fairtrade Coffee Campaign that pushed for reforms in the coffee industry.

The African Front is the only all-African political party that has representatives and supporters from several different African states and regions serving at the same time in the Pan African Parliament. Also several members of the secretariat of the Pan African Parliament and other institutions of the African Union are AUF supporters. The AUF also has hundreds of supporters among members of state parliaments across Africa.

AUF members who have served in the Pan African Parliament include Dr. Amani Walid Kabourou from Tanzania, Chrispin Mwitila Shumina from Zambia, and Ms. Loyce Bwambale from Uganda. Other influential supporters of the AUF include Dr. André Action Diakité Jackson, who is an AUF National Committee Member ^[1] African Unification Front and chairman of the ADC & ADPA^[2] in Luanda, Angola; John Atta-Mills the former vice president of Ghana, Alhaji Yahaya Ndu who is also a member of the AUF National Committee and the president of the African Renassaince Party in Nigeria, Alimamy Bakarr Sankoh, head of the Sierra Leone People's Democratic League (PDL), and Dr.Miria Matembe,^[3] formerly chair of the Pan African Parliament's Rules Committee and a close ally of AU President Gertrude Mongella.

[edit] Background

Dr. Caroline Kamau is an academic, writer and a feminist. She was born in Nairobi, Kenya, and is currently a Lecturer in Psychology at Southampton Solent University, Britain. She has lectured Psychology at Florida State University's London Centre, and was previously a research associate at the University of Kent in Britain. Her research is in the social psychological field of Group Processes, examining ethnic identity strategies, compunction emotions between groups, and cross-cultural explorations of group phenomena.

She served as AUF vice president and as a member of the AUF Executive Committee before becoming president. Other past AUF vice presidents have been Dejene Fasseha, and Mongezi Sefika wa Nkomo. The current AUF vice president is Dr. Heinrich Volmink, a medical doctor who shares his time between Scotland and South Africa.

Kirimi Kaberia was the first president of the AUF. Mouhamed Taofic Youssouf served briefly as AUF president, after Kirimi Kaberia accepted a posting as deputy ambassador for Kenya in Washington DC, USA.