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Interlude: Asian-African Solidarity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2024

Edited by
Carolien Stolte  and
Su Lin Lewis
Carolien Stolte
Affiliation:
Universiteit Leiden
Su Lin Lewis
Affiliation:
University of Bristol
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Summary

It is a law of human society

To meet and talk together

Since solidarity

Is the breath we breathe

It is a law of life

To work and eat together

Since the rice and bread we share

Is indispensable to friendship

To work together, eat together

(water is the bread we drink)

Is the law of laws

The sphere of liberated people

It is a law of human society

To build and build

Friendship of all continents

Freedom for each nation

This is the harmony of all harmony

The oppressed people of Asia and Africa

Sitor SitumorangTransl. Bintang Suradi

Dedicated to the Second Conference of Afro-Asian Writers Indonesia Sings of Afro-Asia (Jakarta: League of People’s Culture Indonesia, 1962).

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The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism , pp. 65 - 66
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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