COWAS represents

• A.the English- speaking equivalent of the Franco phone economic community in West Africa
• B.an attempt to progressively eliminate obstacles to free movement of goods, services and people throughout West Africa
• C.the West African regional arm of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
• D.a continent- wide economic dimension of pan-Africanism
• E.a concrate achievement by the Economic Commission for Africa (EGA)