Economic Integration of African Dependent States: A Study of ECOWAS.

      Аннотация: The decades of the 1960s marked the beginning of the increasing political independence of most African States. Since the attainment of political independent and the formal inauguration governance by various African citizens, the vast African continent has been confronted with two major difficulties and challenges. These have to do with the twin problems of nation building and development. These twin problems have received different solutions, responses and approaches by various State-men and actors in different African States. Given the different and individual responses attempted by different African States, various outcomes have been recorded. However, the effectiveness of all these approaches to problems of nation building and socio economic development has been greatly reduced either owing to the weakness of individual States approaches but more as a result of the absence of a collective alternative. This fact explains the burning need for a collective and purposive course of action.

Ключевые слова: Economy, Integration, dependent state