非洲聯盟

非 = 三 + 丿 + 丨 : Mnemonic symbol: a negative film (photography).

Frankenstein's monster (f) made an effort to photograph the Eiffel Tower (ei1), but now his negative (非) is a big mess. In front of the tower he set up a camera on a Cartesian coordinate system (三) as a tripod, and he attached a banana (丿) and a dinosaur bone (丨) to the camera so that he can finely tune the angles. All was for naught as he now holds the messed up negative in his hands.

洲 = 州 + 氵 : James II of England (zh) traveled to a new continent (洲), founded a new nation, and built a replica of the outhouse which looks exactly like the original one. To celebrate his achievements he planted a red cotton tree (州) in front of the replica outhouse (ou1). Every day, he waters it with a bottle of water (氵) to commemorate the old continent.

联 = 关 + 耳 : Li Qingzhao (li) invented a machine able to combine (联) her hair into braids, and she is trying it out for the first time in the anthill's kitchen (an2). Just as the machine starts Li Qingzhao realizes it is going to combine both of her ears (耳) into one braid she quickly hits the machine's off button (关).

盟 = 明 + 皿 : Mahatma Gandhi (m) is searching his shallow bowl (皿) in the darkness of the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) using a search light (明). He swears (盟) that if he ever looses it again he'll go absolutely mad.