I suspect that when the nations that make up the Economic Community of West African States or ECOWAS, dreamt up a single monetary union, they probably modelled it after the European Union.
Of course that was long before the Greek sovereign debt crises or the rise of the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland,
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