THE BANDUNG CONFERENCE

71 years after the Berlin Conference The Afro-Asian Conference, known generally as the Bandung Conference took place, it was the first largest gathering of Asian and African nations On April 18 to 24, 1955.
Twenty-nine representatives of nations from Africa and Asia came together in Bandung, Indonesia, to promote African and Asian economic coalitions and decolonization, this became one of the first meeting against the 1884 Berlin Conference. https://twitter.com/Joe__Bassey/status/1304315491922608128?s=19
The Conference expressly declared its opposition to both colonialism and neocolonialism not only by the European powers then in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, but also by the United States and the Soviet Union.
Of the twenty-nine nations that were represented in the Bandung Conference African nations recognized were Egypt, Ethiopia, Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), Liberia, Libya, and Sudan and others.
The leading contributors to the Bandung Conference were the nations of Burma, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The primary organizer was Ruslan Abdulgani, former Prime Minister of Indonesia.
The conference came during the midst of decolonization and against a backdrop of a world increasingly divided between the Western democracies and the Communist nations. Conference delegates vowed to take a middle ground in the ongoing Cold War.
They also pledged support for those nations still colonized by the Western states, especially the nations of Africa. The delegates discussed and agreed upon economic alliances, respect for human rights in their countries, and emphasized peace between Africa and Asia.
The Africa and Asia nations also pledged to mutually support their economic development, vowing to rely on themselves instead of Western foreign aid.
Many western powers especially the United States, were wary of the alliance between Africa and Asia. The United States feared the nations of Asia and Africa, especially the independent one, saying they would become infatuated with the leftist ideology.
However, their worries proved unfounded as the members of the Bandung Conference stuck to their vow to chart a middle course between the Western democracies and the Communist nations.
The Bandung Conference inspired the creation of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1961. Members of this Movement eventually became known as the Third World. The Non-Aligned Movement allowed these countries to remain neutral during the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union.
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