Ghana in Search of Regional Integration Agenda 171 institutes can hinge for the purposes of providing a framework in line with the objectives of the region's integration plan. Fostering a sense of community through extra-curricular activities Apart from conducting research and providing training for the purposes of facilitating Ghana's regional integration agenda, the various institutions can also act in the non-academic setting to promote the integration agenda. This is by way of extra-curricular activities that provide entertainment, such as sports and drama. With respect to sports, student games in most tertiary institutions are organised on each campus through the Amalgamated Sports Clubs which oversee the organisation of inter-hall games. Besides inter-hall games of athletics, soccer, hockey, and basketball, there are regular inter-university games in these disciplines nationally and within the West African sub-region. A window of opportunity here for the tertiary institutions in facilitating the integration process is to make concrete efforts to give some visibility through rationalisation to the integration agenda during the hosting of the West Africa University games. The University of Ghana, for instance, by constructing the multi-purpose sports complex places itself in a good position with respect to hosting such sporting events. The multi-complex sports facility under construction in the University of Ghana places the country in a better stead to be able to make bids to host many more games. It will however be under utilised if the complex only serves as a hosting centre for the sporting activities as the presence of students for the games can be exploited to spread the message of integration. For example, the themes of the games which are varied yearly can be developed to carry the message of integration within the host country as well as to the visiting countries. The relevance of such activities to the process of integration is that it provides individuals with the opportunity to come into direct contact with citizens from other West African countries. Ideas and cultural experiences are exchanged between students from participating universities during the period. Study tours can also be organised for students in basic, secondary and tertiary institutions to help them gain experience of how regional integration works. Some educational institutions already organise excursions for their pupils and students and can, in a similar vein, introduce study tours through which their pupils/students could be taken to several West African countries to enable them obtain practical experiences of the procedures for travelling across the sub-region. Through such tours, they would also be brought into contact with the different people and diverse cultures and experience the similarities among the people of the sub-region. Sporting activities between institutions in the sub-region which already take place in some of the tertiary institutions could also be replicated at the basic and secondary school level to bring students in Ghana into contact with students from other parts of West Africa.