The City Youth League, later known as the African Youth League, is a defunct organization that participated in nonviolent resistance against British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 rule in Rhodesia

Rhodesia

Rhodesia , officially the Republic of Rhodesia from 1970, was an unrecognised state located in southern Africa that existed between 1965 and 1979 following its Unilateral Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965...

 from its founding in August 1955 until it merged with the old SRANC on September 12, 1957, becoming the new Southern Rhodesia African National Congress

Southern Rhodesia African National Congress

The Southern Rhodesia African National Congress was a multiracial political party in what is now Zimbabwe committed to the nonviolent promotion of Native African welfare. SRANC was the first fully fledged nationalist organization active between 1957 and 1959 before it was banned by the oppressive...

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The CYL was founded by James Chikerema

James Chikerema

James Robert Dambaza Chikerema served as the President of the Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe. He changed his views on militant struggle in the late 1970s and supported the 'internal settlement', serving in the attempted power-sharing governments.-Early life:Chikerema was born at Kutama...

, Dunduzu Chisiza

Dunduzu Chisiza

Dunduzu Kaluli Chisiza was an early agitator for independence in Central Africa.-Early life:He was born in Florence Bay in the Karonga district of Nyasaland on August 8, 1930, the youngest and eleventh child of Kaluli Chisiza, a group village headman and farmer...

, George Nyandoro

George Nyandoro

George Nyandoro served as the General Secretary of Zimbabwe African People's Union. An ethnic Shona, Nyandoro was one of the founders of the Southern Rhodesia African National Congress. The late National Hero Cde...

, and Edson Sithole.

Chikerema served as President and Nyandoro as Vice President.