AS ECOWAS celebrates its 50th anniversary, Amandla Institute for Policy and Leadership Advancement is set to host a meeting of experts to reflect on West Africa’s integration journey on October 31 and November 1, 2025, at the Main Auditorium of ECOWAS Commission in Abuja, Nigeria. The theme of the meeting is: ‘Reimagining West Africa Regional Cooperation and Integration: Alternative Futures.’

The event, which will convene policymakers, scholars, and civil society leaders, is being organised in collaboration with African Leadership Centre, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and WATHI (The West Africa Citizen Think Tank).

As part of the efforts at deepening knowledge on African integration as well as appraising the impact and the challenges being faced by ECOWAS, the two-day event will also witness the second edition of ‘The African Public Square (APS)’.

This second edition is a follow-up to the success of its inaugural edition, held in London in 2023, which explored Africa’s global agency.