The African heads of state met this week in Addis Ababa to mark the 50th Anniversary of the African Union. Looking back during the last 50 years they need to assess the road the AU has travelled and where it might be going in the next 50 years.
Started as the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), its original aim, as Kwame Nkrumah rightly put it, was to unite Africa within our life time. Dialo Telli, the Guinean first Secretary General of the OAU, believed strongly in this mission, and was an effective Pan Africanist during his tenure at the head of the organisation.