América Latina: ¿clase media de las naciones?

But while Afro-Asianism .has in¿eed ¿edined as a oasis ·of soli¿arity, Afro-Arabism as an overlapping sub-category of solidarity has become stronger in the 1970's. The evolving African micro-dependency upon the Arabs is mainly economic ,ano to sorne extent cultural; whereas African micro-¿epen– dency upon Latin-America is partly military and to some extent ideo– logical The Arab role in the years to come couid be vital for Africa's .devdopment; while Cuba's role has already become significant. in Africa's Hberation. The oM soli¿.arity 'Of Afro.Asianism acose primarily from a sense of shared racial humiliation among the non-white peoples oí Africa and Asia. The radal humiliation hao ¡nelude<! the shared experience of coloni.aJism in' Aídca ano Asia. But while some parts of Asia were never ¿irectly annexed by Europeans, and while Ethiopia and Liberta were permi'tted' at least nomina'l sovereignty by the European powers, all AfrÍcans and Asians had indeed experienced in some degree or another a form of racial humilia/.'ion. The' struggle against racismo arra the strugg.Je against coIonialism were at the heart of Afro~Asian .solídarity. . Whj.le the solidarity pe~sjsted, it was cIear that leadership carne primari1y from the Asian part of the aU~ance. The most important meeting of the mood was held in Bandung in Indonesia in 1955. There was wery modest African representationthen, partIy because the bulk of the continent of Africa was still under colonial rule. Ten years later President Sukarno hosted another meeting in In¿onesia, and partly celebrated the acquisítion oí a nudear capability by the first Asían country, the People's Republic of China. The doctrine of non-alignment was a:lso boro in Asia. JawaharIa:1 Nehro was' virtual1y the founde! of the movement, and remained its most important 'spokesman unnl the 1960's. One African coíintry after another onattaining índepen¿ence, embrace<! .at least the rhetoric ofnon.alignment inits condUd of foreign relations. . India under Nehru also led the way in voluntaiy membership of the' (British) Commonwealth. When their turn Carne one African country after another, previously rule<!' by Britaín, ded¿ed to follow In¿i'll's precedent ano accede to the Commonwealth. Later on the People's Republic of China aJso became influential in Afro - í\sian circles, though by' no means .as universa:lly popular as Nehro's In¿í.a had been for least a while. But then thíngs began to change. By 1965 even the prophet oE negrítude, President Leopold Senghor ofSenegal, could say: 3 . . : . . 3 See Afdea Diary, june 19-25, ,1965. :74