Regional organisations and integration in Africa are rooted in Pan-Africanism and the post-independence quest for unity, collective self-reliance, and development. Following the attainment of independence in the late 1950s and 1960s, African leaders recognized that political fragmentation and small national economies will clog the wheel of rapid socio-economic transformation and global influence. This led to
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