UN General Assembly
1960

190. Our trade is still "unidirectional" — primary or partly processed products for Europe and the developed countries flow in one direction, in exchange for capital equipment and consumer goods flowing in the other. By contrast, inter-African trade is at present on a very small scale and is often confined to reexports, involving no processing. Why is this so? Principally because of the amount of capital required for the exploitation of our natural resources, and the smallness of our domestic market due to retarded social development, the main reasons for which I have just mentioned.