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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Organisation of African Unity (OAU)"”.
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Protecting Human rights within Regional Economic Integration arrangements: A case study of the SADC tribunal
Colonialism left many African states both politically and economically fragile as a consequence of the partitioning of Africa by colonialists. The African states experienced difficulty surviving against Western economies so in response to this legacy, the new African leaders at independence called …
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Conflict, Cooperation, and the Creation of the Postcolonial African Regional Order, 1957-1963
This thesis is a work of International History and an investigation of the birth of inter-African relations from Ghana’s Independence in March 1957 to the establishment in May 1963 of Africa’s first and wholly owned political organisation, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in Addis Ababa. The …
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Representation of Southern African National Liberation Movements at the United Nations, 1962-1975
This thesis examines the representation of Southern African national liberation movements at the United Nations (UN) from 1962 to 1975. The thesis discusses the UN practice for their representation; UN reaction and response to their representation over time; Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in …
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African military intervention in African conflicts: an analysis of military intervention in Rwanda, the DRC and Lesotho
… took place despite high expectations of international and regional peace on the part of most analysts after the collapse of cold war in 1989. However, interstate and intrastate conflicts re-emerged with more intensity than ever before, and sub-Saharan Africa proved to be no …
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African solutions to African problems: An assessment of the African Union (AU)'s policy implementation for peace and security in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since 2004
Despite the historical significance of states in Africa gaining political independence since the 1950s, the continent has struggled with the challenges of sustaining security and peace. African leaders, who set out with the ideals of the iconic Nkrumah's ‘Pan-Africanism' of the 1950s, as committed …
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From OAU to AU: Territoriality in African Regional Politics
… between the national and the continental scales of spatial politics. It argues that continental territoriality in Africa is asserted, practiced, and imagined by the African Union(AU) and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in ways that simultaneously constitute and support national …
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From OAU To AFCTA - Analysing The Prospects For Economic Development In Africa
On the 21st March 2018, leaders from across the African continent met at an extraordinary summit of the African Union (AU) in Kigali, Rwanda to sign a deal for the formation of an African continental free trade area (AfCFTA). This step is perhaps the biggest leap towards the age-long dream of …
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The African personality: how the OAU and its founding leadership articulated economic unity 1958-1969
This project returns to the historical moment of African leaders' attempts to institutionalise Pan-Africanism in the mid-20th century. Specifically, it examines how they envisaged the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), later renamed the African Union (AU), as a means of securing unity to foster …