Africa has had a long history of regional integration from the early days of pan-African struggle for the liberation, independence and unity of African states and peoples, to the era of collective search for Africa's development. Regional integration, which was a pan-African strategy for decolonisation and black solidarity in Africa, turned into a tool for the collective development of African states in the face of the challenges of globalisation. Instead of contradicting it, globalisation gave renewed impetus and dimensions to regional integration as expressed in the new global wave of...