The period that separated the adoption of the UDHR in 1948 from the adoption of the human rights covenants in 1966 seems at first to have been a period of just such cascading rights claims. Victorious anti-colonial movements drastically changed both the composition of the UN and the terms of human rights debates. In 1955, delegates from twenty-nine African and Asian countries gathered at Bandung in Indonesia, and declared that the right of peoples and nations to self-determination is 'a pre-requisite for the full enjoyment of all fundamental Human Rights'. Two years later, in 1957, Ghana became the first sub-Saharan African nation to win its independence; in 1960, dubbed the 'Year of Africa', it was followed by seventeen more African nations, including Nigeria, whose delegate was so proud to participate in the drafting of the human rights covenants.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 229