Suchergebnisse

Inthe period since the publication of the special number of this journal devoted to Africa and international organization, one development of potentially considerable importance in this connection has transpired within Africa. This is the launching of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and its embarcation on the task of forging a measure of peaceful collaboration out of the multitude of mixed aspirations and competing, indeed conflicting, interests of the African states.

Anaversion to the international borders drawn by the colonial powers, if not their complete rejection, has been a consistent theme of anticolonial nationalism in Africa. The borders are blamed for the disappearance of a unity which supposedly existed in Africa in precolonial times; they are regarded as arbitrarily imposed, artificial barriers separating people of the same stock, and they are said to have balkanized Africa. The borders are considered to be one of the humiliating legacies of colonialism which, according to this view, independent Africa ought to abolish.

In Afrika werden häufig erfolgreich Rückführungsmaßnahmen von Flüchtlingen in ihre Heimatländer durchgeführt, die zumeist auf der Grundlage eines dreiseitigen Abkommens zwischen dem Heimat- und dem Aufnahmeland sowie dem UNHCR erfolgen. Dieses Vorgehen wird nicht zuletzt auch von der Konvention der 'Organization of African Unity' (OAU) über spezifische Aspekte des Flüchtlingsproblems in Afrika von 1969 erleichtert, dem einzigen allgemeinen regionalen Vertrag im Bereich des internationalen Flüchtlingsrechts. (DÜI-Ker)

Role and record of the OAU in African cooperation.

The Organization of African Unity was the product of a compromise between African statesmen who wanted political union of all independent African states and those who preferred functional cooperation as a building block toward the construction of an African sociopsychological community. As embodied in the Charter of the Organization of African Unity and put into operation, the inherent contradictions of the ideas, behaviors, and interests of member states, in conjunction with the dynamics of international politics, brought practically all efforts at functional cooperation to naught. In order to revamp Africa's commitment to functionalism, the Lagos Plan of Action was adopted in April 1980. But it remains to be seen how practicable it will be for Africans, relying on themselves, to achieve the goal of an African Common Market by the year 2000, as envisaged in the plan.