Ms Dlamini-Zuma beat incumbent Jean Ping of Gabon after a closely fought contest for the chairmanship of the organisation.
Long-serving minister,Ms Dlamini-Zuma, the former wife of South African President Jacob Zuma, won the leadership of the AU commission in a third round of voting.
She got 37 votes at the 54-member body, giving her the 60% majority she needed to be elected.
But critics said her candidacy had broken an unwritten tradition that the chairmanship should not be occupied by one of Africa's major nations.
Ms Dlamini-Zuma's election came at a summit in Addis Ababa, the organisation's home city.
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