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The 1,000-Km-Long African ‘City’: How the Abidjan-Lagos Highway Could Erase West Africa’s Borders A $15.6 billion super-highway is rising along West Africa’s coast, linking five nations - Abidjan, Takoradi, Accra, Lomé, Cotonou, Porto-Novo, and Lagos. Stretching 1,028 km, the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor carries 75% of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) trade and will connect over 52million people by 2030, swelling to 173 million by 2050. Backed by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the EU, it promises to slash border delays, cut transport costs, and create over 200,000 jobs. American journalist Howard W. French who has written extensively on Africa, calls it the dawn of a “West African megalopolis”—a chain of booming cities merging into the world’s next giant urban corridor, rivaling Tokyo-Osaka or the U.S. Northeast. Expected to generate $16 billion in added value, it could turn the once-fragmented coast into Africa’s largest single market. If completed, the highway might do what colonial borders never could: unite West Africa through commerce, people, and unstoppable movement.