Ecowas Protocol on Free Movement and the Afcfta in West Africa: Costs, Benefits and Challenges

ISBN-13: 9789811950049 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Samuel Kehinde Okunade; Olusola Ogunnubi

Opis

This book discusses the phenomenon of regional integration in Africa and the ensuing discourse on the intercontinental free trade agreement within the continent. Long before the move for the facilitation of free trade in Africa, freedom of movement by Africans within Africa backed up by the AU Protocol on free movement of persons has been in existence and in one way or the other both moves are closely related. The book explores the existing relationships between the ECOWAS Protocol on free movement, goods and services and AfCFTA on one hand and the impact of the implementation and non-implementation of these policies on West Africa on the other hand.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Chapter 1: A Borderless region and the pursuit of Continental Free Trade Agreement in West Africa.- Part I: ECOWAS and AfCFTA in West Africa and Beyond.- CHAPTER 2: ECOWAS ‘Borderless Protocol’ and the AfCFTA: Blessing or Burden for Africa’s ‘Smiling Coast’?.- CHAPTER 3: Gendered Insecurity and Mobility in West African Borderlands: putting the Nigeria/Niger border in perspective.- CHAPTER 4: Nigeria-Benin Border Trade in the Context of the ECOWAS.- CHAPTER5: AfCFTA-ECOWAS Regional Integration Initiatives and EUFTA Migration Governance: The Undoing and Doing of Borders in West Africa.- Part II: ECOWAS Protocol and the AfCFTA: Understanding the Political-Economic and Security Dimensions.- CHAPTER 6: Border Closure in Nigeria: Implications for the AfCFTA and Communities on the Benin-Nigeria Corridor.- CHAPTER 7: West African Borderlands: Between ECOWAS Free Movement and EU Externalization Policy.- CHAPTER 8: Borderless Africa, Illegal Migration and Food Insecurity in West Africa.- CHAPTER 9: Integrating AFCFTA (African Continental Free Trade Area) into a Borderless ECOWAS Region: An evident Bluster, a Strategy or a Reality.- CHAPTER 10: ECOWAS Borderless Protocol, AfCFTA and Cross-Border Criminalities and (In)Security Challenges in West Africa.- Part III: Borderless West Africa and AfCFTA: Challenges and Opportunities for African Development.- Chapter 11: The ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement of Persons in Nigeria’s Borderlands, Challenges and Lessons for AfCFTA.- CHAPTER 12: African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement and Challenges of Borderlands in the ECOWAS Region

O autorze

Samuel Kehinde Okunade is a Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He received his PhD in Conflict Transformation from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and his research interests span across security and borderlands studies, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and migration studies, and regional integration in Africa.  

Olusola Ogunnubi is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Gender and African Studies, University of the Free State, South Africa, and also Visiting Scholar at Carleton University, Canada. He received his PhD from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and his research interests include regional studies, comparative foreign policy, corruption in Africa, African regional power politics and soft power diplomacy.

Blurb

“This timely book has demonstrated that no subjects are more important than those of movements and borders in regional integrative associations. With the careful selection of ECOWAS as a major case study, this impressive collection offers the leading insights on protocols, regulations,  trade, and financing to affirm the relevance of regional integration to development, citizenship and collective transformation.”

Toyin Falola, Frances and Sanger Mossiker, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

“This volume offers deep and refreshing perspectives on the subject of borders and borderlands in West Africa. It is a compelling read that marries critical interrogation of longstanding issues of integration, illegal migration, cross-border criminalities, and border closure, among others, with a contemporary subject like the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in the context of West Africa. It is highly recommended to scholars, policy analysts, practitioners, state officials, and students.”

Freedom C ONUOHA, University of Nigeria, Nigeria.

This book discusses the phenomenon of regional integration in Africa and the ensuing discourse on the intercontinental free trade agreement within the continent. Long before the move for the facilitation of free trade in Africa, freedom of movement by Africans within Africa backed up by the AU Protocol on the free movement of persons has been in existence, and in one way or another both moves are closely related. This book explores the existing relationships between the ECOWAS Protocol on free movement, goods and services, and AfCFTA on one hand and the impact of the implementation and non-implementation of these policies on West Africa on the other.

Samuel Kehinde Okunade is a Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He received his PhD in Conflict Transformation from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and his research interests span across security and borderlands studies, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and migration studies, and regional integration in Africa.  

Olusola Ogunnubi is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Gender and African Studies, University of the Free State, South Africa, and also Visiting Scholar at Carleton University, Canada. He received his PhD from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and his research interests include regional studies, comparative foreign policy, corruption in Africa, African regional power politics and soft power diplomacy.