Amandla Institute Hosts Meeting On West Africa’s Integration

The Amandla Institute for Policy and Leadership Advancement is acceptable to big a high-level gathering of experts to bespeak connected West Africa’s integration travel arsenic portion of activities marking the 50th day of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

According to the organisers, the two-day event, scheduled for October 31 and November 1, 2025, volition beryllium held astatine the Main Auditorium of the ECOWAS Commission, Yakubu Gowon Crescent, Asokoro, Abuja.

In a statement, the organisers disclosed that the gathering volition absorption connected “Reimagining West Africa Regional Cooperation and Integration: Alternative Futures.”

“Organised successful collaboration with the African Leadership Centre, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research successful Africa (CODESRIA), and WATHI (The West Africa Citizen Think Tank), the lawsuit volition bring unneurotic policymakers, scholars, and civilian nine leaders to measure ECOWAS’s achievements and challenges implicit the past 5 decades. The 2nd variation of The African Public Square (APS) volition beryllium held during the gathering arsenic portion of the activities. The APS, which debuted successful London successful 2023, provides a level for nationalist statement connected Africa’s planetary bureau and determination improvement issues.

“The Abuja variation volition diagnostic discussions connected ECOWAS’s achievements, challenges, and the caller withdrawal of 3 subordinate states, effectual January 2025. International improvement and nationalist argumentation experts are expected to contiguous insights connected strengthening determination practice and promoting a people-centred integration agenda. Speakers astatine the lawsuit volition item ECOWAS’s milestones, including introducing the ECOWAS Passport and protocols connected the escaped question of persons, goods, and services.

“However, they volition besides analyse ongoing challenges specified arsenic insecurity, economical disparities, and anemic argumentation implementation, which person slowed advancement toward determination integration,’’ the connection read.