UN General Assembly
1960

25. We are an island geographically detached from continents. Yet we are not so far from Africa and we have a friendly and vivid Interest in the future of all the peoples of that continent. We look forward to the day, not far off, whet all African peoples will be free, living in their own States under their own sovereign Governments, It is not for us to define what is called "the African personality", but if it means a sense of unity among all African peoples and States, a concept of the continent as a personality, a unify that would contribute to the consolidation of the world community, we welcome it.