Do people in East Africa want an East African Federation?

[saocv]

Eritrea (commented on by Jordan Solomon) and Somalia (commented on by John Hamzawsky) are by no means part of the East African Community.

According to Wikipedia:

The East African Community (EAC) is an intergovernmental organisation composed of six countries in the African Great Lakes region in eastern Africa: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

John Magufuli,the president of Tanzania, is the EAC's chairman.

The organisation was founded in 1967, collapsed in 1977, and revived on 7 July 2000. In 2008, the EAC agreed to an expanded free trade area including the member states of all three organizations.

The EAC is an integral part of the African Economic Community.

The EAC is a potential precursor to the establishment of the East African Federation, a proposed federation of its members into a single sovereign state.

I’d like to make right some important misconceptions about East Africa that I usually read here:

By no means is Islam a problem here. People here simply ignore the religions they don't care about. In fact, Christians are more likely to provoke the Muslims.
Prior to the the return of the EAC, East African people from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda acted like the community existed. They freely moved around.
Kenyans and Rwandese are everywhere in Uganda. I don't have a problem with them. And I know of no one who does.
English is much more fluently spoken than any other language but make no mistake about this, it is no one's first language.
So would I like the East African Federation?

You mean;

Behave in other East African countries like I behave here?
Get a Rwandese girlfriend?
Stronger currency because of the stronger economy that will come with the East African Federation?
Work anywhere around East Africa?
Take on Kenya’s amazing democracy and their beautiful Nairobi as part of my new nation?
Hell yes!

Now my reasons may seem shallow but that's all we'll look at because in all honesty, the East African Community isn't offering us anything that we weren't doing already. Especially with Kenya.

I personally dislike the Idea of Southern Sudan in the EAC. We treat those people like our own but they treat ours like infiltrators.

 

[isajorsergio]

Why Southern Sudanese treat Easterners like infiltrators?

 

[pingli-nywee]

Co-operation, yes. Federation, hell no! As a Kenyan I believe that Kenya has everything to lose when it comes to a political federation. Our democratic virtues and progress over the years, our rombust political processes. The new identity brought about by our new constitution, will all be under threat of dilution. The biggest nightmare for any true Kenyan is the country sliding back to anarchy and dictatorship of the Moi era.

 

[Chamoto]

Co-operation, yes. Federation, hell no! As a Kenyan I believe that Kenya has everything to lose when it comes to a political federation. Our democratic virtues and progress over the years, our rombust political processes. The new identity brought about by our new constitution, will all be under threat of dilution. The biggest nightmare for any true Kenyan is the country sliding back to anarchy and dictatorship of the Moi era.

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[eliakeem]

Co-operation, yes. Federation, hell no! As a Kenyan I believe that Kenya has everything to lose when it comes to a political federation. Our democratic virtues and progress over the years, our rombust political processes. The new identity brought about by our new constitution, will all be under threat of dilution. The biggest nightmare for any true Kenyan is the country sliding back to anarchy and dictatorship of the Moi era.

Ahaaa haaa haaa
That's just a fear of unknown.

Ukweli ni kuwa we have to work on our countries to cleanse all odds before letting our doors open to each other.

 

[pingli-nywee]

Ahaaa haaa haaa
That's just a fear of unknown.

Ukweli ni kuwa we have to work on our countries to cleanse all odds before letting our doors open to each other.

You have no idea what it took to slay dictatorship and the cockerel called KANU. 24 years under the thumb of a dictator named Moi! We have a unique democratic identity in East Africa as Kenyans, that gave birth to a new constitution. That is the status quo that we are not about to let go that easily. Not to people who have embraced dictatorship and have no iota of democratic sense, all because we call each other neighbours. In that aspect, we are not alike in any sense, trust me.