Politics

The first world summit to which no colonial power was invited

From April 18 to 24, 1955, twenty-nine Asian and African countries gathered in Bandung, Indonesia, at an unprecedented moment within the history of recent diplomacy. The Bandung conference was sponsored by five countries: Burma, Ceylon, India, Indonesia and Pakistan, in addition to 24 other participating countries from each continents. Together they represented roughly 1.4 billion people, or greater than two-thirds...