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american_scientific_journal-655	Fye, Abdoulie; Sen, Akuru Muluh	Regional Integration and Democracy in Africa	2015	10	.pdf	application/pdf	4275	146	35	5. Challenges of the implementation of Democracy within the context of Regional Integration Africa One of Africa’s foremost advocates of regional integration as indicated by author in [11], who was the former Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) from 1975 through 1993, and he was also a key participant in other regional bodies for integration. If we look at Ernst Haas, the founder of neo-functionalism (1958, 16) he defined regional integration as: “Political integration is the process whereby political actors in several distinct national settings are persuaded to shift their loyalties, expectations and political activities to a new centre, whose institutions possess or demand jurisdiction over pre-existing national states.	cache/american_scientific_journal-655.pdf	txt/american_scientific_journal-655.txt