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Africa Day (formerly African Freedom Day and African Liberation Day) is the annual commemoration of the foundation of the Organization of African Unity on 25 May 1963. [1] It is celebrated in various countries on the African continent as well as around the world. [2]
The Organisation of African Unity (OAU; French: Organisation de l'unité africaine, OUA) [1] was an African intergovernmental organization established on 25 May 1963 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with 33 signatory governments.
In 1963, the two groups united to establish a formal, continent-wide organisation, the Organisation for African Unity. The alliance first met on 8–12 May 1961 in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, one of its leading countries. [2] [3] Other members included Nigeria and most of Francophone Africa, including Senegal and Cameroon.
The Organisation of African Unity (OAU), was subsequently established on 25 May 1963 followed by the African Economic Community in 1981. [1] Critics argued that the OAU in particular did little to protect the rights and liberties of African citizens from their own political leaders, often dubbing it the "Dictators' Club". [2]
The Assembly came into existence on 25 May 1963, as part of the ratification of Organization of African Unity (OAU). Initially the Assembly consisted of 32 independent members, the heads of state of the African states that had achieved independence by 1963. Until 2001, the governing constitution of the Assembly was the OAU Charter.
The conference was aimed at establishing Africa Day to annually mark the liberation movement concerning the willingness of the African people to free themselves from colonial rule, as well as subsequent attempts to unite Africa, including the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was established on 25 May 1963, and the African Economic ...
African Unity Square (Place de l'Unité Africaine) in Casablanca. The group first met in 1961 in the Moroccan port city of Casablanca, hence the alliance's name.This conference brought together some of the continent's most prominent statesmen like Gamal Abdel-Nasser of Egypt, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Sékou Touré of Guinea.
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