In high school, I became very interested in the Bandung Conference and sought books and documents on this event. There was hope that a new era was starting, and the formerly colonized peoples would transform the world. Tito (right in the pic) led Yugoslavia (a country that disintegrated), Egypt's dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser (in the middle), Nehru from India (left), Sukarno (Indonesia), and an African whose name I forgot. Chou Enlai was there too.
The Bandung Movement is still alive as the Progressives. However, only China realized the Bandung hopes. The rest are still beating the long-dead horse of Colonialism.
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