UN General Assembly
1959

24. It is also with great enthusiasm and pleasure that the Federation of Malaya anticipates the forthcoming independence of the new African States of the Cameroons, Togoland, Nigeria and Somalia next year. We eagerly look forward to welcoming them to their rightful places in our international community of free nations. My delegation hopes that the path blazed by Ghana and Guinea in the last few years, which will be taken by these four new African nations next year, in the onward rapid and steady march of the peoples of the great continent of Africa to independence, will be taken by all countries in Africa before long. We earnestly hope that, through the. co-operation of the metropolitan Powers and the peoples of the dependent territories in Africa, political, economic and social progress will be accelerated, so as to make it possible for firm dates for independence to be fixed for all the countries of Africa which are still under colonial rule.