Percepcja Organizacji Jedności Afrykańskiej w świetle zachowanych dokumentów Departamentu V i Departamentu II MSZ PRL z lat 1963–1989
The Perception of the Organisation of African Unity in the Light of Extant Documents of Department V and Department II of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1963–1989

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to analyse documents concerning the Organisation of African Unity that were created in Department V and Department II of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Polish People’s Republic in the years 1963–1989. Polish diplomats, since the creation of the OAU, were monitoring the organization’s activities in the context of changes taking place on the African continent. The 1960s and 1970s were a period of hope for the intensive development of African integration and relations between the newly established states and socialist countries. Poland, like other socialist countries, with the USSR at the forefront, perceived Africa as an area of a two-bloc rivalry with Western countries. The interest of Polish diplomats in the OAU and Africa decreased significantly in the 1980s due to the political and economic crisis in Poland and the socio-economic problems on the African continent.

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