West African integration from pre-colonial times to independence

In a world marked by the new world order Africa must unite to resist in a world where scientific progress dictates the laws.Africa and West Africa in particular has always been dominated by the West and the Middle East. Thus even if Africa has regained its independence it is slow to regain its economic and political independence.During the great West African empires the African kings had integrated all the vassal states on the economic social political linguistic and cultural levels.During the colonization of West Africa the colonial powers also tried to integrate all the colonies politically culturally economically and socially.After independence the African states tried to integrate all the newly decolonized countries in the form of economic social political and cultural integration.