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In the end, the delegates seemed to have learned more from their disagreements than from their rantings against the colonialists. They decided to start a sort of permanent African GHQ of agitators to carry on their work, but always mindful of Nasser's muscle flexing; they set the next meeting of the conference in Tunis, an Arab capital now quarreling with Cairo. They recommended five regional federations, but these, they added, should be only between independent states and subject to the will of the people. More militantly, they called vaguely for the establishment of an "African Legion" composed of volunteers and talked of a labor boycott of the Union of South Africa, but they neatly adopted a middle course between the "nonviolent" revolution advocated by Nkrumah and the fiery call to arms by some of the Algerians. And as for Tom Mboya's big "Scram," no time limit was even mentioned. The delegates were obviously mindful of another "scramble for Africa," and not all of it homegrown.
* Kenyatta, having served less than six years of a seven-year sentence, is due to go free next spring.
† Which last week became the 82nd nation in the U.N.