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OAU
OAU
abbreviation for
- the former Organization of African Unity (now called the African Union)
Example Sentences
"But, tragically, the male lion killed the man who had been feeding them," the OAU said.
He recalled Nyerere's own comments at the inaugural OAU summit in 1963.
Nyerere is the third leader to be honoured with a statue outside the AU headquarters, after Ghana's founding father and pan-Africanist Kwame Nkrumah, and Ethiopia's emperor Haile Selassie, who became a symbol of African nationalism for resisting Italy's attempts to colonise the country in the 1930s, and later agreed to host the OAU.
"Our liberty is meaningless unless all Africans are free," Selassie said at the OAU's launch in 1963, a time when much of the continent was still ruled by European powers.
Locating the OAU in Ethiopia was a diplomatic triumph for Emperor Haile Selassie, who had long championed international law.
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