Former president Olusegun Obasanjo was pictured championing a cause against the menace of apartheid which ravaged South Africa in the 1970s.
Olusegun Obasanjo (highlighted) with other leaders
The Conference was organized by the United Nations (UN), in co-operation with the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and the Federal Government of Nigeria and in consultation with the South African Liberation movements, the African National Congress of South Africa (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) and the Non-Governmental Organizations Sub-Committee on Decolonization, Racial Discrimination and Apartheid.
The Conference brought together representatives of more than 100 Governments, including a number of Heads of State, and representatives of liberation movements, UN bodies and organizations and individuals throughout the world.
At the presiding table, right to left: Leslie O. Harriman (Nigeria), Chairman of the Special Committee against Apartheid; Olof Palme, Vice-President of the Socialist International, and former Prime Minister of Sweden; Brigadier Shehu Yar'adua, Nigerian Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters, Lagos; President Kenneth D. Kaunda of Zambia; UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim; Lieut. Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, Head of State of Nigeria; H. Shirley Amerasinghe (Sri Lanka), President of the UN General Assembly; and Brigadier Joseph N. Garba, Commissioner for External Affairs of Nigeria.