The Confédération générale des travailleurs africains ('General Confederation of African Workers', CGTA) was a trade union centre in French West Africa, in existence from 1956 to 1957.
A leader of the French Confédération générale du travail (CGT) in West Africa, Bassirou Guèye, had begun to promote the idea that African trade unionists should make themselves independent from the French centres.
A conference was held in Saint-Louis on January 14-January 15, 1956 during which CGT-Autonome and the Guinean branch of CGT formed the CGTA.
The meeting was attended by representatives from Guinea, Senegal, Mauritania, Ivory Coast, Upper Volta and Niger.
[6] CGT responded to the launching of CGTA by calling for an African trade unionist unity conference.