Promoting enlightened engagement between Africa and
America through education, training and dialogue.

AAI IN THE 1960S

 

1968, Nairobi, Kenya, George N. Lindsay and Hon.Joseph Murumbi,M.P., (later Vice-President) Co-chairmen, the African-American Dialogues.

The following AAI programs were established in the 1960s:

 

Africa in the 1960s

The following African countries gained independence in the 1960s:

1960

Togo
Senegal
Mali
Madagascar
Zaire
Somalia
Benin
Niger
Burkina Faso (Upper Volta/Haute Volta)
Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Chad
Central African Republic
(Oubangui Chari)
Congo (Brazzaville)
Gabon
Nigeria
Mauritania

1961

Cameroon (British territory)
Tanzania
Sierra Leone

1962

Burundi
Rwanda
Algeria
Uganda

1963

Zanzibar (union with Tanganyika 1964)
Kenya

Organization of African Unity established at congress in Addis Ababa, May 25th 1963 by 30 states

1964

Malawi
Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia)

1965

Gambia

1966

Botswana
Lesotho

1967

President Nyrere, Tanzania proclaims the "Arusha Declaration"

1968

Mauritius
Swaziland
Equatorial Guinea