Robert Home*
INTRODUCTION
The African Union (AU), since its Constitutive Act in 2000, has grown from an initial 27 member states to now include all 55 countries on the African continent. The initiative came from the late President Gaddafi of Libya – an “unlikely figure”, according to Amao, p. 16 – who called for Africa to create a robust international body at an “extraordinary summit” of the former Organization for African Union (OAU), held in his home town of Sirte in 1999. The last state to join, or rather rejoin – since it had split from the former OAU – was Morocco, in 2017.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jsdlp.v10i2.10
* Robert Home, MA PhD MRTPI Emeritus Professor in Land Management, Anglia Ruskin University (UK). Email Robert.home@anglia.ac.uk.