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No account of Africa in the last 25 years would be complete without recognition of the huge impact of events in South Africa. For decades, schoolchildren in Africa learned about the evils of apartheid; the struggle to end it was quite genuinely adopted as a continental one. The "frontline states" -- Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, and to some extent Kenya -- hosted exiles and opposition structures, and boycotted the South African economy, a move which damaged their own economies. The Organization for African Unity (OAU) was united on only a few things; one was the liberation of South Africa. In the 1980s, the movement to end apartheid became an international one, the most vigorous solidarity campaign with Africa in recent decades.