At the same time, it indicates all the work yet to be done on African integration, and hints at the role that European policies continue to play in inadvertently hampering such initiatives. Take, for example, the multiple challenges to integration in one part of Africa, between the Maghreb, the Sahel, and West Africa. Moreover, the case for economic integration does not convince the continent as a whole. However, despite AU and sub-regional politics emerging as a key point of rivalry between the two, both have only tentatively embraced regional integration. Moreover, this pressure has infringed on some of the core precepts of African regional organisations such as ECOWAS.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 05, 2018 13:30 UTC