Fifteenth Session of the U.N.E.S.C.O. General Conference

Extract

Delegates from U.N.E.S.C.O.'s 122 member states (including 39 African countries) attended this session of the General Conference, at which three additional states—Barbados, Mauritius, and the Yemen—were admitted. W. A. Eteki-Mboumoua—Minister of Education, Arts, and Letters in Cameroun, 1961–8—was elected president of the session, the first African to hold such office. In his presidential address, Mr Eteki-Mboumoua called for the preservation of oral traditions in Africa and for more—as well as more effective—aid from the developed to the developing countries.