We tend to regard free movement as a legal and institutional achievement, but this view overlooks the lived realities in the Global South. Drawing on research in West Africa and South America, Zoé ...
A trader approaches the closed Niger-Nigeria border in Jibia, 2024. Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images West Africa has pursued one of the world’s most ambitious border liberalisation schemes in the ...
West Africa as a region has long had one of the most mobile populations in the world. Since 1979, the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) has allowed citizens of its member states to ...