General Debate speaker

Odaka

Addressed the General Debate 6 times for Uganda, between 1964 and 1969 — 18,123 words in all. The longest was 1964, at 4,060.

Also recorded as “ODAKA”, — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.

The record gives a surname and no more. United Nations rosters before the mid-1990s often record only a family name, so these 6 statements are grouped by that name and the name of the state. Where a state sent two people who shared a surname, this page would combine them, and nothing in the record would show it.

02,5005,0001964: 4,060 words1965: 3,544 words1966: 3,055 words1967: 2,517 words1968: 1,916 words1969: 3,031 words19641969
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1964 19 not recorded 4,060
1965 20 not recorded 3,544
1966 21 not recorded 3,055
1967 22 not recorded 2,517
1968 23 not recorded 1,916
1969 24 not recorded 3,031

United Nations records do not consistently identify a speaker’s office before 1994, so a blank means the record does not say.

What the statements mention most

refugees 30 colonialism 16 apartheid 15 self determination 11 peacekeeping 6 disarmament 5 decolonization 5 human rights 4

Counts of words from a published list across these 6 statements. A count is a fact about a word: it is not a measure of what this person believed, argued for, or cared about, and nothing on this page should be read that way.

Everything here is drawn from what Odaka said in an official capacity at the rostrum of the General Assembly, as published by the United Nations. Nothing else about them is collected or inferred.

Where this page comes from