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
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