[5] They aimed to encourage transnational links between black women in several ways: (a) to promote leadership and citizenship amongst women of Africa and African descent; (b) to give the...opportunity to discuss their common problems and how best these could be solved; (c) to promote friendship amongst women of Africa and African descent.
[4]The agenda of Kwame Nkrumah, who opened the conference with a speech, combined non-aligned neutrality in the Cold War with Ghanaian leadership of pan-Africanism.
[3] At the conference there was particular controversy over a resolution condemning the United States and South Africa for their oppression of black people.
US conference delegates and observers included Shirley Graham DuBois, Dorothy Ferebee, Anna Arnold Hedgeman, Harold Isaacs and Pauli Murray.
Several of the American contingent, such as Hedgeman and Murray, objected to equating the two countries.