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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 ]
Several AU executive bodies, such as Pan-African Parliament, the African Peer Review Mechanism and the New Partnership for Africa's Development secretariat, are based in South Africa; while the African Court on Human and People's Rights based in Gambia; and the African Centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism based on Algiers, Ethiopia ...
22–25 May 1963 Cairo Egypt: 17–21 July 1964 Accra Ghana: 21–26 October 1965 Addis Ababa Ethiopia: 5–9 November 1966 Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo: 11–14 September 1967 Algiers Algeria: 13–16 September 1968 Addis Ababa Ethiopia: 6–10 September 1969 Addis Ababa Ethiopia: 1–3 September 1970 Addis Ababa Ethiopia
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 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 ...
On a hot summer day in 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators calling for civil rights joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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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.