UNITY IN AFRICA

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29112, 26 January 1960, Page 13

UNITY IN AFRICA

Leaders Meet In Tunis • (Rec. 9.30 p.m.) TUNIS, January 24. Pan Africanism, the dream of a United States of Africa, will be the theme of the second all African people’s conference which opens in Tunis tomorrow. Independence, the former main topic at any gathering of African leaders, is now so well on the way to achievement in most State? that it is not expected to get more than formal attention. Nigeria, Italian Somaliland and Togoland are to follow the French Cameroons to independence this year. In Paris there are talks setting the pattern of the move to self-government in the African States of the French Community.

In London there are constitutional talks on the future of Kenya and in Brussels talks which will probably lead towards autonomy for the vast Belgian Congo. As a rallying cry •‘independence" has lost its force, though support for Algeria and other colonial territories is still strong. The biggest delegation of the 30 countries represented is the 24-mSn party from Ghana led by the Economics Minister (Mr Kojo Botsio).

“Marriage may be compared to a cage: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.”—Montaigne. “Love is often a fruit of marriage.” —Moliere.

Sick plants have a much higher respiratory rate than well plants. —North Carolina State College.