The movement for cultural consciousness and identity hinged on African unity are traceable in the ideas of Pan-Africanism. Pan-Africanism was seen as the necessary philosophy around which all people ...

Investment/Business Opportunities: Côte d’Ivoire is among Africa’s fastest growing economies and is the largest economy in francophone Africa. Côte d’Ivoire has a relatively well-developed energy (6 ...

Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (Spanish: República de Guinea Ecuatorial, French: République de Guinée équatoriale, Portuguese: República da Guiné Equatorial),[b] is a ...

Decolonisation and the Struggle against Apartheid. One of the major preoccupations of the OAU was the liberation of African states from colonial rule by establishing the Coordinating Committee for the ...

An Integrated, Prosperous and Peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens and representing a dynamic force in the global arena.

Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda,is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley where the African Great Lakes region and East Africa converge. One of the smallest countries on the African ...

KEY FACTS Capital city : Addis Ababa Date of joining OUA or AU: 25 May 1963 the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country in the northeastern part of Africa, known as the Horn of Africa.

The Somali Republic was the official name of Somalia after independence on July 1, 1960, following the unification of the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) and the State of ...

The name "Sierra Leone" dates back to 1462, when Portuguese explorer Pedro da Cintra, sailing down the West African coast, saw the tall mountains rising up on what is now the Freetown Peninsula and ...

Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt ...

In July 1962 in Dar es Salaam Tanganyika (now known as Tanzania), African women from across the continent gathered in the Conference of African Women, a monumental meeting and the first of its kind; ...

Investment/Business Opportunities: Burkina Faso is rich in natural resources in manganese, limestone, marble, phosphates, pumice, and the fourth largest producer of gold in Africa. Tourism: Burkina ...