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LANGUAGE AS A TOOL FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN ECOWAS SUB-REGION

Authors: ADAM Ezinwanyi

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This paper explores the potent world of language in its wider sense as a tool for improved socio-economic relations amongst the nation States of the ECOWAS sub-region. In this sense, the paper advocates the compulsory adoption and study of two Lingua Franca of English and French languages, respectively. It is the perception of this paper that where all the States of this sub-region to a large extent understand these two predominant languages that this will create a sustainable socio-economic understanding and eliminate the mutual suspicion, harshness, and absence of co-operation which have all constituted veritable obstacles to sustainable socio-economic development in the West African region. In fact, the goal of ECOWAS is the creation of the economic belt where national territorial barriers are diluted rather encouraging the building of socio-economic bridges across the region as panacea for the several economic ills bedeviling the region. This paper also advocates language in a narrower but functional context connoting an ideology, a drive, a vision of developmental policies for the region. It is the view of the paper, with excursions into developmental history, that where the people and especially the leadership of the nation States of the West African sub-region adopt the â€˜language of developmentâ€™ as an obsession and ideology, it will create the much needed socio-economic developmental impetus for the sub-region.

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ADAM,E. . (0000). LANGUAGE AS A TOOL FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN ECOWAS SUB-REGION, 0 (), 0-0.

ADAM,E. . "LANGUAGE AS A TOOL FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN ECOWAS SUB-REGION" 0, no (), (0000): 0-0.

ADAM,E. and . (0000). LANGUAGE AS A TOOL FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN ECOWAS SUB-REGION, 0 (), pp0-0.

ADAME, . LANGUAGE AS A TOOL FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN ECOWAS SUB-REGION. 0000, 0 ():0-0.

ADAM,Ezinwanyi , . "LANGUAGE AS A TOOL FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN ECOWAS SUB-REGION", 0 . (0000) : 0-0.

A.Ezinwanyi , "LANGUAGE AS A TOOL FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN ECOWAS SUB-REGION" vol.0, no., pp. 0-0, 0000.

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