In August 1930 a meeting in London was arranged at the request of J.D. Rheinallt Jones, Adviser to the South African Institute of Race Relations. As a result of this meeting the London Group on African Affairs came into being. The Chairman was John P. Fletcher and the Honorary Secretary was Frederick S. Livie-Noble (formerly Honorary Secretary of the Pretoria Joint Council).
The Group was formed to assist the inter-racial work of the several Joint Councils of Europeans and Africans which had been established in various parts of Africa. Another aspect of the Group's work was to provide help for Africans working or studying in England, and to maintain contacts with people and organisations able to assist them. After the outbreak of World War II the Group as such came to an end, however its work was continued and expanded by the Fabian Colonial Bureau which was formed in 1940.
From the guide to the Papers of the London Group on African Affairs, 1925-1942, (The Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House)
