UN General Assembly
1968

68. It was none other than this concept that was at the heart of the “scramble for Africa” in the late years of the last century. Our own decade has seen what might be called "the scamper from Africa" with its obverse side of economic imperialism which some have called neo-colonialism. It is not difficult to see the traces of this virus in the suffering of our brothers in Nigeria today, in the internecine conflict which may set back by two generations the development of the most populous country in the African continent. We, the newly independent countries, ignore at our own risk the virulence of the spores left behind by departing imperialism. Many of the people of the Caribbean and of Latin America have roots in Nigeria, as the Assembly well knows; for us it is a family tragedy of universal proportions.