The African Union

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• The contemporary political history in general of Africa as a whole

Lome And The Two-Way Approach To African Unity

By Sidy Gaye, PANA, 19 July 2000. Today there is less militant and popular fervour, a more subdued echo and much less idealism than on 25 May 1963, Emile Derlin Zinsou, former President of Dahomey, after the signing of the treaty establishing the African Union on 12 July 2000, at the Lome Congress centre in Togo.

African Union!!!—A definite step forward

By Br. Colonel Gaddafi, [29 March 2001]. In this month so important to Africa because of the independence of Ghana and the role of the CPP in that independence, the massacres at Sharpeville and Langa, and now because of the recently concluded OAU-AEC session to further the process of building an African Union.

Arrogant Powell And Lying BBC

Opinion by Owei Lakemfa, Vanguard, 7 June 2001. The BBC reported that an African Union is being created but that it is the brain child of Libya's Mouamar Ghaddafi who is trying to pass himself off as a Pan Africanist. The Britons added that the African Union is loosely structured on the European Union (EU) model. These are pieces of falsehood.