Do you know Panafricanism
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Do you know Panafricanism

The OAU, created in 1963, took the pan-African project a step further by recovering the last colonized territories (such as Angola and Mozambique). The AU, its little successor launched in 2002, digs a little deeper into integration. The famous African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), due to open in 2021! A sort of African passport, the Agenda 2063 program for a “somewhat integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa”. These things are somewhat hampered by persistent regionalism and economic dependence on the rest of the world.

The Fifth Pan-African Conference in Manchester in 1945, led by George Padmore and Kwame Nkrumah, represented a major strategic turning point. The movement moved from reformist demands to immediate independence, marking the beginning of the decolonization process of the 1960s.