Constitutive Act of the African Union

Audience

The Constitutive Act of the African Union is a legal document—in effect, a constitution—so its primary audience consisted of government officials and government agencies in each of the member states, as well as the transnational organizations to which the member states belonged. Another audience was Africa's business and corporate community, as well as the non-African nations with which African businesses conducted trade. In a larger sense, the treaty's audience was all of Africa and indeed the world, for it announced that Africa was no longer to be regarded as a fragmented collection of nations and tribal states, each in pursuit of its separate interests, but rather as a supranational entity with common goals and policies.