I agree with your point RealDeal. However, have you bother to ask yourself why did the first EAC failed?, why there was no such skepticism during the formation of the first EAC despite of all our political differences etc.?.
Here is a lil story...
RealDeal, we used to have a common transportation system (the EA Railways), a common postal services, a common Airline and so much more!. But one rainy morning an intelligent man called NJONJO woke up and set all those into fire!!. Our fathers and mothers who have been working hard in those beautiful institutions end up jobless, they were left to perish in poverty....
Nevertheless, immediately after the collapse of EAC1, TZ looked south and was a founding member of SADC and for your information South Africa was not a member because of the apartheid regime.
We welcome you as our brothers/sisters but we will continue to be skeptic with this EAC until you end all the negative perception towards us that we are lazy, uneducated, stupid, poor and so forth.
I have noticed quite a number of NJONJOs even here in JF!. I believe you are not one of them!!!😎