The Guinean People's Union (french: Union populaire guinéenne) was a political party in

Guinea Guinea ( ),, fuf, 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫, italic=no, Gine, wo, Gine, nqo, ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߫, bm, Gine officially the Republic of Guinea (french: République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the we ...

. UPG was founded in April 1958 through the merger of Socialist Democracy of Guinea (DSG, the Guinean branch of the African Socialist Movement) and the

African Bloc of Guinea African or Africans may refer to: * Anything from or pertaining to the continent of Africa: ** People who are native to Africa, descendants of natives of Africa, or individuals who trace their ancestry to indigenous inhabitants of Africa *** Ethn ...

(BAG). UPG was the Guinean branch of the

African Regroupment Party The African Regroupment Party (french: Parti du Regroupement Africain, PRA) was a political party in the French African colonies. Formation The PRA came into being at a meeting in Paris on March 26, 1958, months before the French Community would ...

(PRA).Schmidt, Elizabeth.
Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946-1958
'. Western African studies. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. p. 137 The party was dominated by Western-educated

Fulas The Fula, Fulani, or Fulɓe people ( ff, Fulɓe, ; french: Peul, links=no; ha, Fulani or Hilani; pt, Fula, links=no; wo, Pël; bm, Fulaw) are one of the largest ethnic groups in the Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region ...

(french: Peuls; ff, Fulɓe), such as Barry Diawadou, Barry III and Abdoulaye Diallo. Whilst BAG, one of the founding parties of the UPG, had represented the more conservative political sector in Guinea, the new UPG tried to challenge the dominant African Democratic Rally (RDA) from its left. UPG supported the 'No'-campaign in the 1958 referendum on Guinea joining the

French Community The French Community (1958–1960; french: Communauté française) was the constitutional organization set up in 1958 between France and its remaining African colonies, then in the process of decolonization. It replaced the French Union, which ...

. After the referendum and the subsequent independence of Guinea, UPG was merged into the RDA.

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