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Objectives of the OAU:
a) To provide African countries it a permanent organization through which they could discuss issues affecting them.
b) To provide identity for the newly independent countries of Africa in a world dominated and
controlled by the white race.
c) To co-ordinate and assist in the speedy decolonization of the rest of Africa.
d) To improve the living standards and conditions of African people as a group and as individual states.
e) To help in the Defence of the independence of African states and maintenance of the sovereignty of these countries.