| dc.description.abstract | This review paper seeks to analyse African integration in terms of its magnitude of solidarity, the state and typology
of integration and functioning. It assesses the strengths, weaknesses, objectives, successes and failures of the African
integration project as well as threats to its survival. The primary goal is to sift between issues with the view of better
informing the future of the integration. The paper acknowledges how, in 2002, the OAU (formed in 1963) convened to
reconstitute and become the African Union (AU) composed of eight Regional Economic Communities. The reformed
union has spelt out gender equality, strategic planning, intra-trade, non-indifference to suffering in member states and
sustainability, as additional objectives to those of the former OAU. This idea has been to foster integration to promote
peace, security and cooperation hence solidarity. It can now be assessed succinctly that African integration has arisen in
the need for amalgamation of efforts to solve African problems with African solutions. | en_US |
