Abstract:
This essay focuses on the role that regional integration can play in the economic development of the African continent.In assessing the great potential of the interaction between factors like the political sovereignty of individuall countries, the impact of the forces of globalization, the need for economic independence for African countries and the ultimate goal of integrating the African economies. There is need to focus on the relative successes and failures of the current regional integration Blocs even as the continent envisages the need for the creation of new regional integration areas.
