African governments adopt a plan emphasizing self-reliant development, regional cooperation and reduced dependence on external economic control. The plan challenged externally imposed development...
African leaders sign the Constitutive Act in Lomรฉ, creating the legal basis for the African Union. The Act renewed a Pan-African institutional project and expanded cooperation, while the tension...
Forty-four African states sign the agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area in Kigali. The initiative seeks to deepen intra-African trade and integration; its decolonial...
The Assembly concluded two days of deliberation and adopted its decisions, declarations and resolutions. Its resolutions on reparations, global governance and integration carry forward Pan-African...
Adopted in Nairobi, the Charter recognized civil, political, economic, social, and peoplesโ rights and expressly prohibited slavery in Article 5. Its language placed human dignity and collective...