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JOURNAL OF AFRICAN UNION STUDIES (JoAUS) Volume 15, (Number 1), April 2026

In an era defined by intensifying Great Power competition and systemic global uncertainty, the African Union (AU) appears to have adopted a posture of what could be called ' strategic hedging’. This approach allows the continental body to avoid rigid binary alignments - such as choosing between the United States and China or taking a hardline position in the war between the US/Israel and Iran. In what has also been called strategic autonomy (Biscop, 2022; El Bikam, Zita, & Oumar, 2017), the AU wants enough room to maximise developmental benefits while engaging multiple global poles simultaneously. ...

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JOURNAL OF AFRICAN UNION STUDIES (JoAUS) Special Issue Towards the Africa We Want: The AU and the Quest for Peace and Development in the Era of Polycrisis Guest Editor: Siphumelele Duma

The founding of the African Union’s (AU) predecessor, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), over sixty years ago, was inspired by the desire to mobilise continental efforts (to drive the decolonial wave across the continent) and resources for collective self-reliance and sufficiency. At the centre of this continental organisation has always been the unification of Africa through Pan-Africanism. At its establishment in the early 1960s, the OAU pursued five main goals, namely, to: (a) Promote the unity and solidarity of African States; (b) Coordinate and intensify their cooperation and efforts to achieve a better life for the peoples of Africa; (c) Defend their sovereignty, their territorial integrity and independence; (d) Eradicate all forms of colonialism from Africa; and (e) Promote international cooperation, having due regard to the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Adedeji, 1984; OAU, 1980). These issues remained critical, even a...


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