TY - JOUR AU - Engel, Ulf PY - 2019/12/17 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Organisation of African Unity in the 1960s: From Euphoria to Disenchantment JF - Comparativ JA - comparativ VL - 29 IS - 4 SE - Articles DO - 10.26014/j.comp.2019.04.04 UR - https://www.comparativ.net/v2/article/view/2958 SP - 48-67 AB - <p>This article revisits the early history of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) which emerged at a critical juncture of globalisation in the 1960s. Four broad topics are discussed: (1) the political aims of the organisation, (2) the continental body’s role in global politics and the way independent African states have impacted on the United Nations, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Commonwealth, (3) the development of intra-African relations, and (4) possible reasons for the general underperformance of the OAU’s in particular with regard to violent conflict on the continent in those years</p> ER -