Afro-Asia

The term is often used to describe the solidarity between African and Asian nations when they were acting against European colonialism and later also remaining nonaligned during the Cold War.

Africa and Asia had trade links in pre-colonial times, particularly through East Africa trading with Asian regions as far east as China (see also Ming treasure voyages).

[3] Modern Afro-Asian solidarity began in reaction to Western colonialism and the positioning of whiteness as superior.

[4] For example, Japan's rising ability to contest Western dominance in the Asia-Pacific in the early 20th century encouraged black nationalists in America to envision a rising Afro-Asian world order that could overthrow white dominance (see also Yellow Peril).

[4][7] The major postcolonial impetus for Afro-Asian solidarity was the 1955 Bandung Conference.