Social Science Research Council

ECOWAS adopted its Vision 2020 in June, 2007, it is intended to replace an ECOWAS of States with an ECOWAS of Peoples. Or, as Sekou Toure might have put it, the Vision seeks to replace a “trade union of heads of state” with people centeredness. However, successful transformation critically depends on participatory dialogues among governments [...]

Might the economies of sub-Saharan Africa have special defenses against the global capitalist crisis in the relatively small role that credit and “leverage” play in consumer spending and the operations of private businesses?
I make that case in a new article distributed by Project Syndicate, which appeared in The Guardian in late March.
My piece briefly [...]