Nigeria, Sept. 26 -- This week, I am in Accra attending an ECOWAS consultative meeting in line with the organisation's concern that it is facing an existential crisis, and that a year-long grassroots consultation process should be organised to prepare a pact for the future of a re-energised body that is able to pursue its regional integration project and repair the cracks to its democracy consolidation normative framework. This followed the coups in Chad, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Guinea, and the rise of the Alliance of Sahelian States, which posed, in a very direct manner, the existential crisis for ECOWAS as an organisation and its democratic model. The fabled leading regional organisation in Africa could collapse and democratic rec...