Identity area
Reference code
ZA COM MR-AAO-160
Title
Finnish Africa Committee
Date(s)
- 1970 - unknown (Accumulation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
The People’s Archive at the Social Archives Foundation in Helsinki holds most of the archives of the organisation. The Kansan Arkisto website is in Finnish only.
Context area
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The FAC started in 1970 and organised information campaigns for trade unions, and political parties. It established, together with the Finnish Peace Committee, the fundraising organisation Peace Fund in 1973 to support liberation movements in Southern Africa. It focused more and more on apartheid as from the late 1970s and organised boycott campaigns.