Visions of African Unity

1. Introduction.- Part I Imagining and Debating African Unity.- 2. A Different Kind of Union: An Assassination, Diplomatic Recognition, and Competing Visions of African Unity in Ghana-Togo Relations, 1956-1963.- 3. Thinking East African: Debating Federation and Regionalism, 1960-1977.- 4. Kwame Nkrumah and the All-African Trade Union Federation: Labour and the Emancipation of Africa.- 5. African Unity and the Process of Integration from the Grassroots: The Case of Mali and Senegal.- Part II The Impact of African Liberation and Cold War on African Unity.- 6. Visions of Unity: Southern Africa and Liberation.- 7. Between Continent and Country: Botswana, National Liberation, and Pan-Africanist Challenges, 1960s-1980s.- 8. The Trajectory of Liberation: Insurgencies from Portuguese Colonialism and Their Contribution to Pan-Africanism and Solidarism Within an Emerging African International Society.- 9. In Between Cold War politics: The OAU Consultative Committee and Anglo-American Diplomacy in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970.- 10. 'Between their hands a fabulous geography is born': The Maghreb Generation and the Fight to Decolonize and Unite Africa's Minds.- Part III From The OAU to the AU: Historical Trajectories.- 11. Embracing State Security: The Peace and Security Norms and Structures of the Organisation of African Unity, 1963-1993.- 12. What a Difference a Decade Makes: Understanding Security Policy Reversals Between the Organisation of African Unity and the African Union.- 13. Reflections About the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights Twenty Years After the Ouagadougou Protocol.- 14. Unity or Identity? How the Ambivalences of the African Union's Collective Identity FormationPlay Out in Contemporary African Politics. The Case of the 2015 Burundi Crisis.- 15. How Africa Can Unite.- Part IV Postscript.- 16. Key Primary Information Sources Emanatingfrom the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and the African Union (AU): From the Lagos Plan of Action to Agenda 2063.