Sleeping at the UN? This is Jaja Wachuku, Nigeria’s first foreign minister post-independence. He pretended to fall asleep during a UN meeting as a form of protest He was denied the opportunity to respond to a racist remark from another representative in 1960.

The inequality and discrimination against the Global South at the UN has long been criticized by African leaders. It was the central theme of Muammar Gaddafi’s famous 2008 speech where he ripped pages from the UN charter while at the podium.