Regional Economic Communities: Exploring the Process of Socio-economic Integration in Africa

Authors

Akinpelu Olanrewaju Olutayo
Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran
Terfa Williams Abraham
Olayinka Akanle
Kabran Aristide Djane
Leah Kimathi
Ikuteyijo Lanre Olusegun
Molatokunbo Oluwaseunfunmi Olutayo
Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale
Bappah Habibu Yaya
Benaiah Yongo-Bure
Olabisi S. Yusuf
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.57054/codesria.pub.65

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CODESRIA, 2015, 148p., ISBN: 978-2-86978-632-5

This book examines how existence of overlapping regional-based institutions has presented a daunting challenge to the workings of various RECs on the African continent. Majority of the African countries are members of overlapping and, sometimes, contradictory RECs. For instance, in East Africa, while Kenya and Uganda are both members of EAC and COMESA, Tanzania, which is also a member of the EAC, left COMESA in 2001 to join SADC.
In West Africa, while all former French colonies, such as Mali, Cote d’Ivoire, Togo and Benin Republic belong to the ECOWAS, they simultaneously keep membership of the UEMOA, though unrecognized by the African Union (AU). Such multiple and confusing memberships create unnecessary duplication and
dims the light on what ought to be priority. Various chapters in this book have therefore sought to identify and proffer solutions to related challenges confronting the workings of the RECs in different sub-regions of the African continent. The discourses range from security to the stock exchange, identity integration, development framework, labour movement and cross-border relations. The pattern adopted in the project engages devolution of related discussions from the general to the specific; that is, from the continental level to subregional case studies.

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Author Biographies

Akinpelu Olanrewaju Olutayo

is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and a visiting lecturer to the University of Ghana, Ghana, University of Botswana, Botswana, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria and Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. He is an external examiner at various universities in Nigeria and overseas. He has published more than 50 research papers in established local and international journals. He has also written and edited more than 10 publications.

Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran

is a Lecturer/Researcher in Sociology at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria and a visiting researcher at The Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Canada. He holds a PhD in Development Sociology from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He has published in widely acclaimed local and international journals, periodicals, books and encyclopaedias. His recent articles explain the usefulness of an endogenous development framework in West Africa (Critical Sociology, Sage, 2012) and the dynamics of cross-border relation in the ECOWAS sub-region (Blackwell, 2013). He is a recipient of the Africa Initiative Graduate Research Grant (Canada 2011) and CODES IA’s Comparative Research Network Grant (2012) among other scholarly awards.

Terfa Williams Abraham

obtained his BSc and MSc degrees in Economics from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria-Nigeria and a Certificate in Economics of Climate Change from the AERC/UNU-WIDER training in Cape Town, South Africa. An Associate Member of the Nigerian Economic Society (NES) and Individual Member of CODESRIA, his research interests are in Financial Markets, Public Finance, Climate Change and Development Economics. He is currently a Research Officer at the National Institute for Legislative Studies (NILS), National Assembly, Abuja, Nigeria.

Olayinka Akanle

is a Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He has published extensively in books, encyclopaedias and learned journals, both locally and internationally, including; Akanle, O. and Olutayo, A.O., 2012, ‘Ethnography of Kinship Constructions among International Returnees in Nigeria: Proverbs as the Horses of Words’, Journal of Anthropological Research. 68.2; Olutayo, A.O and Akanle, O., 2009, ‘Fast Foods in lbadan Metropolis: An Emerging Consumption Pattern’, Africa, 79.2, pp. 207-227.

Kabran Aristide Djane

is a Lecturer/Researcher at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Korhogo, Ivory Coast. He is a specialist in population and development studies. He focuses his research on African fieldworks by applying modelling in social sciences. He has modelled children’s environmental behaviour in many of is research works. He is currently working on multilevel analysis in children agencies.

Leah Kimathi

holds a Masters degree in History of International Relations from Kenyatta University and a Fellowship in International Philanthropy from Johns Hopkins University, USA. She has published extensively on peace and security, post-conflict recovery as well as the role of non-formal institutions in peace building. A recipient of many academic and social activism awards, she is currently working with the UNDP Somalia as a Community Safety Specialist.

Ikuteyijo Lanre Olusegun

is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He specialised in Criminology and Social Research Methods from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile- Ife. His research interests include policing, migration, urbanisation and social research methods. He was a visiting researcher to McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada in 2011 and 2012. He is a recipient of a number of awards including the ‘Network of Excellence for Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences: Sub-Saharan Africa’.

Molatokunbo Oluwaseunfunmi Olutayo

holds a PhD in political science from University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She specializes in gender and political life. She has previously served as a lecturer at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria and Lead City University, Nigeria. She is currently a Faculty Member at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She has published well researched articles in notable local and international journals.

Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale

teaches Sociology at the University of Ibadan. He holds a PhD. degree in Sociology. He was a recipient of the 2010 American Council of Learned Societies African Humanities Programme Post-Doctoral Fellowship among other scholarly awards. He has published in reputable journals and edited volumes both locally and internationally. He has interest in Sociology of Development, Urban Sociology, Rural Sociology and Sociological Theory. He is the author of The Tokunbo Phenomenon and the Second-Hand Economy in Nigeria (2013).

Bappah Habibu Yaya

is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He holds a BSc. degree in International Studies and an MSc degree in Political Science from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He is currently at the completion stage of his PhD. His research interest is in Regional Integration in Africa, particularly the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

Benaiah Yongo-Bure

is Associate Professor of Social Science. He teaches Economics and Social Science at Kettering University, Flint, Michigan. Yongo obtained his MA and PhD degrees from Dalhousie University, Canada, after graduating with a BA. (Hons) from Makerere University, Uganda. Before joining Kettering, Yongo had taught Economics at the University of Khartoum, University of Juba and Wayne State University, Detroit. Yongo’s research i terests are in African development, regional integration and peace and conflict issues.

Olabisi S. Yusuf

is a Lecturer in Sociology at the Lagos State University, Nigeria. She is currently working at completing her doctoral research at the Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She has researched and published locally and internationally on subjects related to gender and development.

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