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Regional economic communities, exploring the process of socio-economic integration in Africa, edited by Akinpelu O. Olutayo, Adebusuyi I. Adeniran

eng

Includes bibliographical references

no index present

non fiction

Regional economic communities

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933720573

edited by Akinpelu O. Olutayo, Adebusuyi I. Adeniran

Codesria book seriesAfrica and the challenges of the twenty-first century

exploring the process of socio-economic integration in Africa

This book examines how existence of overlapping regional-based institutions has presented a daunting challenge to the workings of various RECs on the African continent. Majority of the African countries are members of overlapping and, sometimes, contradictory RECs. For instance, in East Africa, while Kenya and Uganda are both members of EAC and COMESA, Tanzania, which is also a member of the EAC, left COMESA in 2001 to join SADC. In West Africa, while all former French colonies, such as Mali, Cote d'Ivoire, Togo and Benin Republic belong to the ECOWAS, they simultaneously keep membership of the UEMOA, though unrecognized by the African Union (AU). Such multiple and confusing memberships create unnecessary duplication and dims the light on what ought to be priority. Various chapters in this book have therefore sought to identify and proffer solutions to related challenges confronting the workings of the RECs in different sub-regions of the African continent. The discourses range from security to the stock exchange, identity integration, development framework, labour movement and cross-border relations. The pattern adopted in the project engages devolution of related discussions from the general to the specific; that is, from the continental level to subregional case studies.--, Provided by Publisher