Finding Order in a Disorderly Region of ECOWAS

The paper did set out to find order in a disorderly region of the economic community of West African States (ECOWAS). The region-west Africa is famously known to be politically unstable quagmire of underdevelopment by all intent and purposes had unleashed all kinds of political, social and economic conflicts or disorder that the region now houses states where human misery known no bounds. The region (ECOWAS) is linguistically heterogeneous, thus, socially disharmonious which had made penetration into the affairs of the region (socially, politically, and economically) by more sophisticated climes most easy. All the shades of intervention by these climes into the region had exacerbated the conditions of disorderliness in the region. The human misery and disorderliness in the region are indexed by several factors that include - poor performance of government, woeful economic performances, and geo – politics, social disharmony and much more. Nigeria, one of the core states in the region is now considered as the world poverty capital. The question then is - can order be found in such a disorderly region like the ECOWAS. The attempt at proffering answers to the question lead the paper to several conclusions thus, the recommendations canvass therein.