The Organization of African Unity, founded in Addis Ababa in 1963, was by 1979 deeply fractured over the question of Western Sahara's status following Spain's withdrawal — a dispute that would eventually force a suspension vote and Morocco's own exit from the body in 1984. Liberia's commemorative issue appeared the same year President Tolbert hosted the OAU summit in Monrovia, a considerable diplomatic coup for a government that would itself be violently overthrown by Samuel Doe's coup just twelve months later, in April 1980.
The Organization of African Unity, founded in Addis Ababa in 1963, was by 1979 deeply fractured over the question of Western Sahara's status following Spain's withdrawal — a dispute that would eventually force a suspension vote and Morocco's own exit from the body in 1984. Liberia's commemorative issue appeared the same year President Tolbert hosted the OAU summit in Monrovia, a considerable diplomatic coup for a government that would itself be violently overthrown by Samuel Doe's coup just twelve months later, in April 1980.