Was Africa represented during the 1945 San Francisco Conference on International Organization?

In 1945, the Four African countries attended the San Francisco Conference on International Organization:

1. Egypt
2. Ethiopia
3. Liberia
4. South Africa

1. Egypt was represented by :

Delegates

• H. E. Abdul Hamid Pasha Badawi, Minister of Foreign  Atfairs; Chairman
• H. E. Ibrahim Bey Abdul Hadi, Minister of Public Health
• H. E. Mahmoud Pasha Hassan, Minister to the United  States

Experts

• Mamdouh Bey Riaz, Deputy, Chairmao, Foreign Relations Committee
• Anis Bey Azer, Minister Counselor, Egyptian Legation, Washington
• Mahmoud Bey Abu! Fath, Senator (Press Attaché)

2. Ethiopia was represented by: 

Delegates

• Bitwodded Makonnen Endalkachau, Prime Minister; Chairman
• Ato Aklilou Abte-Wold, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Ato Ambai Wold-Mariam, Vice Minister of Justice
• Blatta Ephrem Tewelde Medhen, Minister to the United States
• Ato Emmanuel Abraham, Director General, Ministry of Education
• Ato Menasse Lemma, Director General, Ministry of Finance

Advisors

• John Spencer, American Adviser to Ministry for Foreign Affairs ·

Secretary

• Ato Petros Sahlou, Ministry for Foreign Affairs

3. Liberia  was  represented by:

Delegates:

• C. L. Simpson, Vice President; Chairman
• Gabriel L. Dennis, Secretary of State; Associate Chairman
• Lemuel Gibson, Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

4. South Africa (Union of South Africa) was represented by:

• Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, Prime Minister; Chairman
• D. D. Forsyth, Secretary for External Affairs
• Leif Egeland, Minister to Sweden

Members of Delegation

• H. T. Andrews, Under Secretary of External Affairs; Head of the South .Africa  Government Supply Mission, Washington
• R. Jones, Acting Accredited Representative for the Union of South .Africa, Ottawa
• J. R. Jordaan, Charge d'Affaires ad interim, South Africa, Legation, Washington
• D. L. Smit, former Secretary of Native Affairs
• L. E. Orkin, Industrial Registrar, Department of Labour

Secretary

• T. Hewitson, Vice Consul in New York

Press Relations Officer

• H. M. Moolman, Director of the Unio.n of South Africa Government Information Office, New York ,

Staff

• Private Secretaries to Field Marshal Smuts
• H. W. A. Cooper
• B.J. Fourie

Aide de Camp to Field Marshal Smuts

• Major J. C. Smuts
• Lieutenant Colonel Pieter W. A. Nel

Member of Personnel Staff of Field Marshal Smuts

• Lieutenant Colonel Pieter W. A. Nel

Documents of the United Nations Conference on International Organization (UNCIO) - San Francisco Conference Documents, 1945, document no. 639 G/3 (2) pgs 5-94 (attached) lists delegates and officials from these four countries-- (Egypt –pg 32, Ethiopia, pg. 34, Liberia, pg. 44 and Union of South Africa pg.60). A complete set of these documents is available in print version in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library under call number:  UNX.341.13 U51 and full text through the United Nations Digital Library.

More information on the delegations to the conference is available from the 1946-1947 UN Yearbook and the UN website history page -- "About the United Nations-- San-Francisco Conference".