In September 1958, a group of African nationalists under the leadership of Julius Nyerere (1922-1999) of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) met at Mwanza (Tanzania) and formed the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa (PAFMECA). The movement was a collective effort working towards ending imperial rule, settler domination and apartheid in the region. A caretaker committee and fund were established under the chairmanship of Francis Khamisi (Khamisi, 2014, pp. 29-30). Tanzanian nationalist John Mwakangele and Kanyama Chiume (1929-2007) of Malawi were also present, and it would appear that they shared Khamisi's sentiments of pan-Africanism. Khamisi continued to be involved with PAFMECA and was involved in its invitation to Nelson Mandela to speak at their conference in Addis Ababa in 1962, thereby extending the activities of PAFMECA to cover southern Africa.