Ethiopia, Feb. 16 -- The Journey to the Formation of the OAU

In 1958 at the all-African people's conference in, Accra-Ghana, all the speakers at the conference from the West African nations unanimously spoke against the prevailing racism and colonialism that was happening in Africa at the time. They called on Africans to unite in their fight for liberation from colonialism. The Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa (PAFMECA) was formed in 1958 to campaign for the independence of the countries of East and Central Africa from colonial and white minority rule, although this movement was short-lived.

The Casablanca group (7th January 1961), composed of Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Morocco, and the Algerian Provisional Government, ...