Africa Union Day is one of the public holiday’s celebrated in Ghana and across Africa. It serves as a day that marks the assembling of thirty African nation representatives at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, hosted by Emperor Haile Selassie to form the Organization of Africa Unity (OAU). The meeting was held on May 25, 1963.
At the time of the assembly, about two-thirds of African countries had achieved independence from colonial rule. The main purpose of the meeting was to set up an organization that will work diligently to:
- Pledge support to African freedom fighters
- To support in decolonizing other African countries such as Angola, Mozambique, South Africa and Southern Rhodesia.
- Overcome military forces fighting against independence
- Improving the standard of living of African states
The meeting ended with Haile Selassie exclaiming, “May this convention of Union last 1,000 years” and Organization of Africa Unity (OAU) was founded.
On the following day, a meeting was held to sign a charter. At the meeting they made a rename of the founding day from “Africa Freedom Day” to “Africa Liberation Day”. By the close of the meeting, a charter was signed by all the attendees on May 26, 1963, with the exception of Morocco.
After that historic meeting, heads of African state meets annually at Ethiopia to review progress in the African continent and device means to develop the content and also improve standard of living. In the year, 2002, Organization of Africa Unity (OAU) was renamed African Union (AU).
The day is now heralded as African Union Day or Africa Day.
Till date, the day is celebrated to foster the unity of Africans and to encourage Africans to work hard to build the continent. Heads of African states meets at Ethiopia to conduct a SWOT analysis over the continent and devise ways and means to improve the continent.
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