Isolate the Enemies of Freedom: 55 Years On
(Organisation of Africa Unity Message for the International Year of Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination [1971], titled “Isolate the Enemies of Freedom”, delivered on 21 March 1971)
It will be recalled that the United Nations has proclaimed 1971 as the International Year of Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination. More than any other Continent, Africa is a victim of racial discrimination in the form of a barbaric and brutal type called Apartheid. Over 30 million Africans are subjected to varying degrees of racial discrimination and Apartheid. The international community declared Apartheid as a crime against humanity as well as a threat to international peace and security.
The Organisation of Africa Unity expresses its earnest hope that the observance of this year will promote effective worldwide activities against apartheid as well as colonialism which is inseparable from racism in Africa. Africa, which through centuries has suffered the most brutal manifestations of racism, including the massacre and enslavement of million of its people, and which continues today to suffer the inhumanity of apartheid and the brutality of colonial wars, looks for worldwide action to eliminate once and for all the scourge of racism.
The Organisation of African Unity has as one of its main purposes the eradication of racism. At the Summit Conference in Addis Ababa in 1963, the African Heads of State and Governmen
