New light on the Pan-African Association of 1900: a further note

Abstract

In the first part of our article on the Pan-African Association (PAA), in issue 107 of ARD, we argued against the received position, accepted by most secondary accounts of the Association, that Robert Colenso had been its treasurer. We pointed out that, with one exception, histories of the PAA had made little or no mention of the part played by his brother, Frank Colenso. Our thesis was grounded on the lack of evidence available at the time to justify the claims made regarding Robert Colenso's position in the PAA, on the confusion between the identities of the two brothers that existed in the primary sources, and on the positive evidence, previously largely disregarded, for the role played by Frank in the Association.