Abstract
Economic integration has been promoted as essential for the development of Africa. Currently, the principal vehicle for integration in the West Africa sub-region is the Economic Community of West African States [ECOWAS]. A lot has been written on ECOWAS from socio-economic and political perspectives. What has so far been missing is a comprehensive study of ECOWAS from a legal or institutional perspective. It is a defining characteristic of Africa's integration processes that the role of law, rules or institutions has not been emphasised. The process has been a political construct fortified by economic theory with the central role of law or institutions missing. Indeed, a 2006 report of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa found the existing legal framework for Africa's integration ‘ambiguous and imprecise’. It is against this background that Dr. Kofi Oteng Kufuor's book The Institutional Transformation of the Economic Community of West African States is timely and welcomed. It is the singular contribution of Kufuor's work that while not ignoring the importance of the socio-economic and political perspectives, he brings to bear on the study of ECOWAS a legal and institutional perspective that is at once critical and rigorous.
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