Share FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinWhatsappTelegramEmail 312 Joan Okorodudu was recently awarded the franchise for ECOWAS Fashion week. Top models and designers from the ECOWAS region, will be grace the runway during the ECOWAS 38TH-anniversary gala dinner slated for the 20th to the 28th of May 2013. During the week-long activities, the world will witness top models from ECOWAS countries in arrays of designs from ECOWAS top designers. Top ECOWAS government officials, presidents, and first ladies will all be in Abuja for this event. However, one day has been kept aside for a major seminar tagged THE BUSINESS SIDE OF FASHION AND HOW ECOWAS REGION CAN TAP INTO THE NEW CRAZE OF ANKARA AND OTHER FABRICS COMING OUT OF WEST AFRICA. Deon Redman creative director of Mercedes Benz fashion week Africa will present a topic of how to create a market for African designs in and out of the African region. Models are advised to send their pictures and cards to [email protected] and all optioned models will be contacted through their agencies. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was created by the Treaty of Lagos in Lagos, Nigeria, on 28 May 1975. It was created to promote economic trade, national cooperation, and monetary union, for growth and development throughout West Africa. Its four commissions deal with the following functions: Trading, immigration, monetary interaction Industry, natural resources, and agriculture Transportation and communications Social and cultural issues There were 15 members initially: Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania (left 2002), Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Burkina Faso (joined as Upper Volta). Cape Verde joined in 1977. More Articles You Would Love Accra Fashion Week Set To Promote Ghana’s Top Models! See Casting Dates For Africa’s Biggest Fashion Week Stylish Singer Efya Goes See Through On Her 29th Birthday Party A revised treaty intended to accelerate the integration of economic policy and improve political cooperation was signed on 24 July 1993. It sets out the goals of a common economic market, a single currency, the creation of a West African parliament, economic and social councils, and a court of justice. The treaty also lays the burden of settling regional conflicts on the treaty members. To this end there is also a Mutual Defense Protocol: a non-standing army deployed in the region as ECOMOG. 2013Africaafricanecowas fashion weekfashionfashion weekghana Share FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinWhatsappTelegramEmail Nana Tamakloe Founder of FashionGHANA.com and Accra Fashion Week. I'm grateful you visited, I hope you share, subscribe and share your comments or opinions below. More For You Ghanaian Highlife Star Akwaboah’s Is Off The Market, See His Engagement Photos Inside! Looking For Trendy Kufis and Durags; Search No Further Senegal’s Amaja Is Here #BIKINIBAE: Motherhood Never Looked So Haute; Check Out These Jaw-Dropping Swimwear Looks By... #OOTD: Miss Universe Cameroon’23 Princesse Issie Takes Moan Yesus Amazing ‘ASSIMBA’ Dress For... The 2024 Trending Take Over, The Rich History, The Prideful Culture Of Fulani... Mozambican Designer Mabenna Unveils Her Latest Masterpiece Look Book For The “Melanin” Collection #fGBrideAndGroom: Ghanaian Doctors Dr. Adwoa and Dr. Kobbie Tie The Knot In Stunning... AI Artist Dana K. Booker Explores The Gorgeous African Beauties Of Columbia In... Nigeria’s Lady Maker Launches The Stunning Look Book For Her Waste To Wonder... Cameroonian UFC champion Francis Ngannou’s 15 Month Old Son Dies Leave a Comment Cancel ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.