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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 631: SPECIAL ISSUE: AU/OAU AT 50, CELEBRATION AND REFLECTION The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. KEEP PAMBAZUKA FREE AND INDEPENDENT! BECOME A FRIEND OF PAMBAZUKA NOW! http://www.pambazuka.org/en/friends.php Follow Pambazuka @pambazuka Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features CELEBRATING TAJUDEEN, THE OAU AND AU: WHICH WAY AFRICA? Ama Biney This special issue celebrates not only 50 years of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and its successor, the African Union (AU), but also the life of the late Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, a staunch Pan-Africanist. Some of the themes of this issue are set out, as well as future challenges facing the AU and Pan-Africanists http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87501 ****** STATE OF THE UNION Dlamini Zuma Address by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Dr. Dlamini Zuma to the Third Pan African Parliament 6 May 2013 http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87496 ****** THE AFRICAN UNION SPEAKS ABOUT THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY Jeff DeKock and Aubrey Pambazuka News interviewed various leaders of the AU Commission and an Oxfam official about the accomplishments of the AU as well as some of the challenges and future of continental integration. Follow the links below to listen to the interviews: Deputy Chairperson, H.E. Mr. Erastus Mwencha http://youtu.be/W7Ag1CWzpyo Commissioner for Social Affairs, H.E. Dr. Mustapha S. Kaloko http://youtu.be/Ipfzeuh6MyA Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, H.E. Mrs. Tumusiime Rhoda Peace http://youtu.be/_f2JD0FMjDs Deputy Head of Communication and Information, Wynne Musabayana http://youtu.be/7jhgHnumUpY Oxfam International, Head of Office, Desire Assogbavi http://youtu.be/kJFndQ6cJ5M * The interviews were coordinated by Jeff DeKock, Assistant Professor of Communication Arts, Trinity Christian College, and Coordinator of the Semester in Kenya ****** THE ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNITY (OAU)/AFRICAN UNION AT 50 The Quest for New Foundations of African Solidarity in the 21st Century Mehari Taddele Maru The AU has now entered the new fifth era of delivery and democracy to avoid uprisings and revolutions and to ensure human security by re-inventing Pan-Africanism for 21st century Africa http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87498 ****** THE AFRICAN UNION AT 50: MISSED OPPORTUNITIES AND LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE Yves Niyiragira Post-independent African leaders have failed to realise the aspirations and hopes of self-determination and unity of the African people. There are five basic steps that AU member states need to take now to put Africans on the path to full integration http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87500 ****** PAN-AFRICANISM AND AFRICAN RENAISSANCE More questions than answers as the African Union celebrate 50 years Antony Otieno Ong’ayo The AU is well placed to articulate the Pan-African agenda for the benefit of the people, yet the majority of African presidents are busy with self-preservation and less supportive of initiatives that promote regional and continental integration. When will the Union to stop being a talking and become a serious institution? http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87490 ****** WHERE IS NKRUMAH’S UNITED STATES OF AFRICA 50 YEARS ON? Samwin Banienuba The African Union must cultivate a united Africa and national governments need to be keenly wary of the divide-and-rule tactics of external powers pursuing selfish interests http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87489 ****** HOW FAR IS THE UNITED STATES OF AFRICA? Motsoko Pheko How is it that 50 years on, the OAU/AU has failed in the main objective for which it was founded? Because the United States of Africa cannot be brought about by leaders who are not Pan-Africanists http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87485 ****** CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION AS TOOL OF DIPLOMACY Dele Meiji Fatunla Africa is undergoing an artistic renaissance that could be a part of the African Union’s approach in communicating the aspirations of Africa and Africans, engaging Africans in critical discussion and representing the potential strength in the diversity of the continent http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87487 ****** THE AFRICAN UNION: IS IT TIME FOR CULTURAL DIPLOMACY TO TAKE CENTRE-STAGE? Ade Daramy It is time for the African Union to push for cultural diplomacy in the form of a Museum of African Music, Arts and Culture as an entity for both preservation and a celebration of our similarities as well as the richness of our cultural diversity http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87494 ****** DEVELOPMENT AND THE DOUBLE-SIDED MIRROR Tunde Jegede There is a need for a cultural rebirth in Africa as part of the radical economic and social transformation of the continent. A new African consciousness that is free from the chains of ‘colonial’, ‘post-colonial’ and ‘decolonial’ must be located in African reference points http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87491 ****** OUR FUTURE GROWN IN AFRICA Agriculture in the African Union Mbongeni Ngulube Food security has been a major concern for Africans over the decades but, surpringly, the OAU/AU did little to support agriculture and other forms of food production. This needs to change, beginning with effective support for the small-scale farmer http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87499 ****** PEACE IN OUR TIME Onyekachi Wambu Given that the roots of so much intra-state conflict is lack of social justice, inequality and marginalisation suffered by different groups, strategies on removing these obstacles and building intra-group solidarity should be the key peace-building pan-African project of the next 50 years http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87486 ****** TAJUDEEN MEMORIAL 2013 Taju’s love for young and old Dede Amanor-Wilks I believe that Tajudeen loved young people because he could see in them the potential to transform society for the better before it transformed individuals for the worse http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87483 ****** FOUR YEARS ON THE SPIRIT OF THE AFRICAN SOLDIER THE INDEFATIGABLE DR TAJUDEEN ABDUL-RAHEEM LIVES ON Sonny Onyegbula In a personal reflection of the late Dr.Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, a foremost champion of Pan-Africanism in recent years, he is remembered as one who spoke truth to the powerful and the powerless with indefatigable commitment to the poor of Africa http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87493 ****** A DIFFERENT ‘JUBILEE’: FRESH CHANCE AT 50 FOR AU ON JUSTICE? Otsieno Namwaya and Elizabeth Evenson In accordance with its founding principles, the AU must actively encourage its members to strengthen domestic justice mechanisms and, where they are either weak or blocked politically, to embrace the ICC as a court of last resort http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87484 ****** AFRICA AND US IMPERIALISM Post-colonial crises and the imperatives of the African revolution Abayomi Azikiwe A reflection on five decades since the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), while the Pentagon and NATO escalate their war drive on the continent http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87495 ****** AU COMING OF AGE A CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION? Titi. A. Banjoko The focus of the next 50 years for the African Union should be to move from being a rigid bureaucracy to an agile organisation, which is able to flex and move at speed in a global society http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87488 ****** 50 YEARS AFTER, IS THE AU, FORMERLY THE OAU, A SUCCESS OR FAILURE? Theodore Menelik-Mfuni In terms of Africa’s decolonisation and integration the OAU and the AU have a mixed score. It is important to allow time for some of the AU’s policies to start biting. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87492 ****** THE BIRTH OF THE OAU Cameron Duodu Africans yearn to come and go within the continent without visas; to work where they like; and expect to be treated as if they were ‘home’ – despite being far away from the territorial limits into which they were originally born http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87497 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Advocacy & campaigns AFRICAN CIVIL SOCIETY CALLS FOR AU ACTION ON ERITREA In a petition, the organisations say the ongoing widespread and systematic nature of human rights violations in Eritrea underlines the need for continued and urgent action by the African Union http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/87503 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ Fahamu - Networks For Social Justice http://www.fahamu.org Pambazuka News is published by Fahamu Ltd. © Unless otherwise indicated, all materials published are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. 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