Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was established in 1975 and included fifteen nations. The original nations were Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Benin, The Gambia, Guinea, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Senegal, and Togo. The main goal of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was to bring together the economies and partake in the shared development of economic growth.
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has worked to make traveling between member nations easier through the application of a program that produces certificates instead of passports, so citizens are able to travel more freely. This would benefit costs by reducing them, help with confusion and increase the tourism industry (Satterlee, 2018).