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Can Ghana Help Us Create the Africa We Want with the Hosting of the Africa Transitional Justice Legacy Fund in Accra?

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As if I don't have enough African Union issues to manage (African Peer Review Mechanism; African Continental Free Trade Area; Agenda 2063) for which processes I am privileged to be involved in, but this latest -- the African Union's Transitional Justice Policy touches me personally. Before making noise on #AfCFTA, I was working behind the scenes seeking to promote peace and security dynamics through the optics of Ecowas -- mostly in my private capacity as an independent ECOWAS & AU Policy Analyst at Ecowas Business News. My pet project has always been the ECOWAS intervention in Liberia in 1990-1997 under ECOMOG. I joke that I should be able to recite the key moments of the conflict, including the protagonists who helped bring closure to the conflict...in my sleep. That's how goofy I can be! The latest project, #EcowaSadcSynergies is a redemption of the immense passion I have for the comparative in the field of regional integration, and only goes to buttress