Decision on the Encyclopaedia Africana Project – Documenting African History Towards Durable Solutions to African Challenges including Forced Displacement

DECISION ON THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA AFRICANA PROJECT - DOCUMENTING
AFRICAN HISTORY TOWARDS DURABLE SOLUTIONS TO AFRICAN
CHALLENGES INCLUDING FORCED DISPLACEMENT

The Assembly,

1. RECALLS Decision Assembly/AU/Dec.500(XXII), adopted at the 22^nd Ordinary Session held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in January 2014, on the adoption of the Encyclopaedia Africana Project (EAP);

2. COMMENDS the work of the Government of Ghana and the Commission on the progress made in reviving the EAP;

3. REQUESTS the Commission to adopt the EAP as one of its flagship projects;

4. CALLS UPON Member States, the Commission and Pan-African institutions on the Continent and in the Diaspora to support the work of the EAP;

5. REQUESTS the Commission to conduct an assessment of the current Secretariat of EAP and identify the possibility of making it a Pan-African Institution.