The Organisation of African Unity was an African intergovernmental organisation established on 25 May 1963 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with 33 signatory governments. Some of the key aims of the OAU were
Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie with President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser in Addis Ababa for the Organisation of African Unity summit, 1963
Egypt's president Nasser at the Cairo summit 1964
Anti apartheidsdemonstratie in Amsterdam de kop van de demonstratie, Bestanddeelnr 934 2645
Kwame Nkrumah
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Kwame Nkrumah, was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained independence from the United Kingdom
Organisation of African Unity
…Summit Conference held in Sanniquellie, Liberia, on 15–19 July 1959. President Tubman of Liberia hosted President Touré of Guinea, and Prime Minister Nkrumah of Ghana, and the three pledged to work together for the formation of a "Community of Independent African States". The OAU was founded in May 1963 in…
Portrait of Nkrumah
Nkrumah in the Lincoln University yearbook, 1942
60 Burghley Road, Kentish Town, London, where Nkrumah lived when in London between 1945 and 1947
Red cockerel, "Forward Ever, Backward Never": Convention People's Party logo and slogan