Biopolitical governance in Postcolonial West Africa: The Management of Life in ECOWAS Migration and Health Policies Between 2000 and 2023

West African postcolonial governance centralizes the mechanisms of people’s lives through mobility and security borders. In May, 1975, ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) was founded. The manner West African nations’ discourses are examined and evaluated through strategic plans regarding health issues and migration policies initiated an interrogative place where the regulation of people’s lives remains really unquestioned. In this paper, we seek to evaluate governmental discourses of ECOWAS in regard to biopolitics. In the present paper, we examine the ECOWAS official documents dealing with health and migration issues. We interest in the years between 2000 and 2023.