This is CBSI on the World. I'm with my colleague Gregory Copley of Defense and Foreign Affairs

to Africa. When we last spoke of Africa, it was West Africa, mentioning ECOWAS economics of West

African states, headed by the very large economy of Nigeria.

And I believe, Gregory, you made the case that we're moving away from the

masquerade of democracy into a different approach of governance.

The three states that come in hand are Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger,

which were members of ECOWAS. Is ICOWAS itself undergoing a transformation?

Well, we don't know whether ECOWAS in any really meaningful extent actually continues to exist,

because tomorrow three of its states are leaving the

union, the economic community of West African states. And that's Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger,

all of the, all of the which are francophone states, and possibly Sierra Leone, a former British colonial

territory, that also may leave or become an ineffective partner of ECOWAS.

So that leaves ECOWAS literally as a rump of what it once was.

And this is all due to the fact that that fake election in Nigeria,

a year, more than a year ago, is what led to this situation.

Because when the coup occurred in Niger, for example,

the new president of Nigeria, who was basically in a President-Biden-like condition, threatened to invade Niger, which he didn't realize was actually an impossibility.

The president, Bolotanubu, is from Lagos, a former governor of Lagos state, and he's not familiar

with the northeast and northwest, at the northwest facing Niger, for example, because he didn't

understand that the Hauser and Falani peoples in Niger and in northwestern Nigeria are the same people.

And if the Nigerian army wished to invade Niger would have to go through

its own domestic population of Hausa and Fulani people to get to Niger itself.

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