OAU Members By Date of Admission (53 States)
- 25 May 1963:
- Algeria, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Léopoldville). Dahomey, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, The Sudan, Tanganyika, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Upper Volta, Zanzibar
- 13 December 1963: Kenya
- 13 July 1964: Malawi
- 16 December 1964: Zambia
- October 1965: The Gambia
- 31 October 1966: Botswana, Lesotho
- August 1968: Mauritius
- 24 September 1968: Swaziland
- 12 October 1968: Equatorial Guinea
- 19 November 1973: Guinea-Bissau
- 11 February 1975: Angola
- 18 July 1975: Cape Verde, Comoros, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe
- 29 June 1976: Seychelles
- 27 June 1977: Djibouti
- June 1980: Zimbabwe
- 22 February 1982: Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara)
- June 1990: Namibia
- 24 May 1993: Eritrea
- 6 June 1994: South Africa
Read more about this topic: Organisation Of African Unity
Famous quotes containing the words members, date and/or admission:
“I have more in common with a Mexican man than with a white woman.... This opinion ... chagrins women who sincerely believe our female physiology unequivocally binds all women throughout the world, despite the compounded social prejudices that daily affect us all in different ways. Although women everywhere experience life differently from men everywhere, white women are members of a race that has proclaimed itself globally superior for hundreds of years.”
—Ana Castillo (b. 1953)
“There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“The admission of the States of Wyoming and Idaho to the Union are events full of interest and congratulation, not only to the people of those States now happily endowed with a full participation in our privileges and responsibilities, but to all our people. Another belt of States stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)