So last week, its chairman, Moussa Faki Mahamat, felt urgent need to add his voice to the unfortunate event of an American white policeman killing black George Floyd on the street.
The word of the AU chairman was not enough, the deputy also went to his Facebook page and added his voice: "The African Union is distressed to witness yet another unwarranted execution of another African-American male, George Floyd, for no other reason than BEING BLACK.
If a police car drives over a young opposition activist to death in Uganda, that is lighter than a white police officer pressing his knee onto a blackman's neck in America.
Maybe we shouldn't be too quick to judge the AU, let's wait until a white police officer puts his knee on the neck of an African.
The knee of African governments can never be bad enough on black people's necks as to deserve the AU's voice.
