The creation of the Organization of African Unity, presently known as the African Union, was as a collective team work by the African people to struggle for independence, according to Osita Agbu, a Professor of International Relations at the department of international relations and diplomacy at the Baze University in Abuja.
"This was an environment in which many peoples of Africa - I didn't say countries I said peoples, - many peoples of Africa were subjected to colonialism, discrimination, exploitation etc. And so many of these peoples had to struggle for political independence, for economic independence, as the case may be," he says.
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