RECONCILING THE TWO WEST AFRICAS: MANAGING ETHNIC AND LINGUAL DIVERSITY FOR REGIONAL INTEGRATION
In international politics, language is core in inter-state trust and relationship, and the West African region (or sub-region), which is multi-ethnic, culturally plural and bi- or multilingual in imported languages, may never evolve an integrated region if the diversity is not converted from source of disconnections to source of connections. At best, West Africans have regarded themselves as...
Published at Ante Portas – Studia nad Bezpieczeństwem
Volume 2
Issue 5
Pages 179-193
Published in 2015
Folarin Sheriff, Folarin Oluwafunke and Olorunyomi Bankole
Folarin Sheriff F. » Sheriff F. Folarin (PhD), is a Professor of International Relations and a two-time Head of Department of Political Science and International Relations at Covenant University (2012-2014; 2018-2021). Prior to this time, Professor Folarin had been Director (and founding Coordinator) of the International Office and Linkages at Covenant University, where he laid a solid foundation for the... view full profile
