The Organization of Africa Unity (OAU)

In May 1963 the leaders of 32 Independent African nations convened in Addis Ababa. The Heads of State summit which was held between May 23rd and 25th brought the Organization of Africa Unity (OAU) into being. It became the vanguard of Africa’s political emancipation. Its history is the history of the formation of modern Africa and a result of the vision of Pan-Africanists like Kwame Nkrumah, and the other founders of the OAU. Their goal was to unite the African continent politically and economically on its own terms.