The Union of African States was a short-lasting union of first two then three African states in West Africa, in the 1960s. The first two member states were Ghana and Guinea, soon joined by the third member state Mali. The Union was politically Socialist and Pan-Africanist, and it was led by African revolutionaries Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Sékou Touré of Guinea, and Modibo Keïta of Mali.
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“The union of hands and hearts.”
—Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667)
“What should concern Massachusetts is not the Nebraska Bill, nor the Fugitive Slave Bill, but her own slaveholding and servility. Let the State dissolve her union with the slaveholder.... Let each inhabitant of the State dissolve his union with her, as long as she delays to do her duty.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.”
—Han Suyin (b. 1917)
“I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.”
—Barbara Mikulski (b. 1936)