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ECOWAS, Ecobank, Asky Airline, and Africa’s Integration The success of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was highly acknowledged at an intellectual gathering in Libreville, Gabon. It was also a moment to acknowledge the leadership of Nigeria in ECOWAS as against leadership in other integration endeavours in East, Central and South Africa. Hence, as ECOWAS just ended its 49th session of the gathering of Heads of State, Nigeria must push forward for food sufficiency in the region and efficient road/rail network while commending ASKY for its initiatives in the air network. We congregated in Libreville, Gabon from 15th to 20th May, brainstorming on how to move forward the teaching and learning of French in Africa. People from Southern Africa, Eastern Africa, Central Africa and only two of us from West Africa both Nigerians sat to strategise on the way forward. Thanks to Agence Universitaire De La Francophonie(AUF), the only organ charged by all nations speaking French in this world to make sure French language compete favourably in all spheres of knowledge with English – the only two official languages of United Nations – even though Chinese, Spanish, Arabic and Russians stand as mere working languages of the UNN.

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