Colonial Dilemmas of the West

... but also the basic issues affecting the development of new sovereign states. The Economic Community of West African Countries (ECOWAS) and the West African Economic and Monetary Union, the leading international organisations in the region, were established ... ... and most of the world as a neo-colonial domination, then French influence in part of Africa is not much different from simple colonialism. Even the system of international institutions based on formal sovereignty, which the United States imposed everywhere ...