Lex Anteinternet: The Organization for African Unity formed, May 25, 1963

Friday, May 25, 2018

The Organization for African Unity formed, May 25, 1963

Yes, usually we track events occurring in 1918 or 1968, but not always. For reasons of our own, we looked into events of 1963 a bit today.

The big event today was the formation of the Organization of African Unity. The left leaning organization was Africa centric and came in as colonialism went out.

The OAU itself went out in 2005. It's results were pretty mixed, but then most similar organizations had mixed records as well. Worth noting, while hardly ever noted, Africa all in all is doing very well today and is really a rising region of the globe. . .and a giant one at that.

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This blog has been around since 2009. In the very first post, we asked the question: "What the heck is this blog about?"

Our answer to the question was: "The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?"

We also noted: "Part of the reason for this, quite frankly, has something to do with minor research for a very slow moving book."

All of this is still true, but the focus of the blog has changed somewhat. It now focuses on the era from 1890 to 1920 in general, rather than on the law and lawyers specifically, although that may be far from obvious. It's also become the location where we comment on anything we feel moved to comment on.

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