Roy sawh biography

Former black power organisation in the UK

The Universal Coloured People's Association (UCPA) was a black power organisation in the United Kingdom from June to July

History

The association was founded on 5 June at a meeting of 76 members of the Black British community in Notting Hill, London.^[2][3] The UCPA's development as a black power organisation was driven by Stokely Carmichael's July visit to Britain, where he spoke at the Dialectics of Liberation Congress in London.^[4] Just days after Carmichael's visit Obi Egbuna, a Nigerian-born novelist and playwright who had been living in England since , was elected chairman of the association.^[5] On 10 September that year the UCPA launched a pamphlet called Black Power in Britain, the stated purpose of which was "to awake the coloured people of Britain to the lessons of Stokely Carmichael".^[6]

Roy Sawh was initially second-in-comman