Africa-Press – Ghana. At this 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, I would like to speak about Africa’s role in the future of the organisation. However, it is impossible to do that without first
considering the collective role that Africa played in its founding, which was small and relatively
insignificant.
Of the 51 Member States involved in the founding of the United Nations in 1945, only four were
African: Egypt, Ethiopia, Liberia, and South Africa.
It is important to point out that the United Nations came into being in the aftermath of World
War 2 because of the inability of its precursor, the League of Nations, to avert a large-scale
global conflict, which had been its guiding purpose when it was founded in 1920 on the heels
of World War 1.
Out of the 42 founding member states of the League of NaPons, only three were African:
Liberia, the Union of South Africa, and Ethiopia. Egypt joined later in 1937. Africa’s overall
participation in the organisation’s founding was minimal and relatively unimportant.
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