Address delivered by H.E. Alkaji Sir A. Balewa, prime minister of the federation of Nigeria: at the conference of the heads of states and governments

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Address delivered by H.E. Alkaji Sir A. Balewa, prime minister of the federation of Nigeria at the conference of the heads of states and governments. There have been quite a lot of views on what we mean by African Unity. Some of us have suggested that African Unity should be achieved by political fusion of the different states in Africa; some of us feel that African Unity could be achieved by taking practical steps in economic, Educational, scientific and cultural co-operation and by trying first to get the Africans to understand themselves before embarking on the more complicated and more difficult arrangement of political union. My country stands for the practical approach to the unity of African continent. We feel that if this unity is to last, we must start from the beginning.