Dar es Salaam, Feb. 4 -- TANZANIA: SEVENTY years ago, from April 18–24, 1955 to be precise, a landmark conference took place in a small Indonesian town of Bandung.

This conference, known as the Asia-Africa Conference, or more famously ‘The Bandung Conference, was organised by the then Indonesias President Soekarno.

It brought together nations from Africa and Asia, some newly independent, aiming to enhance not only political cooperation to combat colonialism elsewhere and other injustices, but also foster economic collaboration to support their fragile economies, many of which were just emerging from colonialism and found themselves embroiled in the intense Cold War rivalry as they attempt to assert their economic independenc...