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Address before the Conference of African heads of state, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 22, 1963.

This is indeed a momentous and historic day for Africa and for all Africans. We stand today on the stage of world affairs, before the audience of world opinion. We have come together to assert our role in the direction of world affairs and to discharge our duty to the great continent whose 250 million people we led. Africa is today at midcourse, in transition from the Africa of Yesterday to the Africa of Tomorrow. Even as we stand here, we move from the past into the future. The task on which we have embarked, the making of Africa, will not wait. We must act, to shape and mould the future and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.

The Addis Ababa Conference of Independent African States was held on May 22–25, 1963, and was attended by the heads of state of 30 African countries. The Conference adopted six resolutions and a Charter to establish an organization to be known as the Organization of African Unity (OAU).

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), consisting of the foreign ministers of the member countries, met in Dakar, Senegal, on August 2–11, 1963, under the chairmanship of Mr. Doudou Thiam (Senegal) in pursuance of the decisions taken at the Addis Ababa Conference of African heads of state and government.

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) held its second session in Lagos, Nigeria, on February 24–29, 1964. Adopting nineteen resolutions at this session, the Council sought to fulfill the purposes of the OAU Charter by coordinating and harmonizing the general policies of OAU member states.

The third ordinary session of the Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) took place in Cairo, July 13–17, 1964. The Council examined 21 applications from "freedom fighter" organizations for representation in that body. The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Leopoldville) was represented at the meeting of the Council of Ministers, but when it was announced that Moise Tshombe, the new Congolese Prime Minister, would attend the Assembly of Heads of State and Government, objections were raised by a number of Heads of State and Ministers. As a result Mr. Tshombe announced that the Congolese government would not take part in the Assembly.

Intro -- CENTURY OF CHANGE: SYMPOSIUM ON AFRICAN UNITY -- CENTURY OF CHANGE: SYMPOSIUM ON AFRICAN UNITY -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- FOREWORD I -- THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES - COMPLETION POINT ON THE HORIZON -- FOREWORD II -- NEW ANALYTICAL CONSTRUCT TOWARDS AFRICAN UNITY: CHASING AND REALISING THE DREAM -- REFERENCES -- PREFACE -- REFERENCES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- LOOKING BACK TO CONSTRUCT A BETTER FUTURE: THE TOUGH CHOICES FOR AFRICA -- THE DIASPORA -- SUPPORT FROM THE WEST SHOULD NOT BE RESTRICTED TO REMITTANCES TRANSFER AS THE LIFELINE TO THE AFRICAN POOR -- Incorporation and Cross Fertilisation of Knowledge -- Windows of Opportunities -- THE DEBATES AND DIVIDING LINES -- PROGRESSIVE CIVIL SOCIETY -- CONCLUSION -- A Look Ahead: The Plan of the Book -- WHERE AFRICA IS HEADED - CHAOS OR COMMUNITY? -- AFRICA CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 1 AFRICAN UNION IN A WORLD DOMINATED BY FORCES OF INTEGRATION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF AFRICAN INTEGRATION AND OTHER REGIONAL BODIES -- IT IS IN YOUR HANDS -- AFRICA'SMULTIPLE REGIONAL ECONOMIC GROUPS -- Appendix I: Africa's multiple regional economic groups -- MEMBERSHIP PROFILES OFAFRICA'SRECS -- Appendix II: Membership Profiles of Africa's RECs -- The Drive towards United Africa Compared with Other Forces of Integration beyond the Continent -- Differences at the Level of Motivations for Integration -- Incoherent Implementation Strategies in Africa Compared to Other Integration Efforts -- Infrastructural and Communication Gaps as an Obstacle to Integration in Africa Compared to Other Areas -- Poor National Institutional Framework in Africa Compared to Efforts beyond the Continent -- A Dormant African Intelligentsia: Moving Out of the Glass House -- Conclusion: The Necessity of Becoming Public Pan-African Intellectuals. -- REFERENCES.

Inthe period since the publication of the special number of this journal devoted to Africa and international organization, one development of potentially considerable importance in this connection has transpired within Africa. This is the launching of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and its embarcation on the task of forging a measure of peaceful collaboration out of the multitude of mixed aspirations and competing, indeed conflicting, interests of the African states.