An East African people

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The East African Community member states have only eight months to educate their people on the benefit of the common market trade protocol. The protocol, which comes into effect mid next year, was launched on Friday, but as Brenda Mulinya reports, it is clear that the common man is yet to understand what this new arrangement really means.

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[NotAnAmericanIdiot2]

@midiafreemega

Why limit to just East Africa? Why not the who Africa or at least Sub Africa?!

[midiafreemega]

You can still have your identity in EA community. The borders were drawn by the British. Let them burn in hell! East Africa should combine to create a powerful force, so powerful their people can be whatever they want to be. Doctor, lawyer, shopkeeper. That is the African dream.

[HeshimaJameni]

@kevinoti I am from Kenya but please enlighten me as to what that "Kenyan identity" is? When I was born Kenya was still a british colony and the currency that was being used was the east african shilling which was criculating in Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar! Even a decade after Kenya's independence the we had some regional (not national) institutions such as the East African Airways, E.A. Railways, E.A. Harbours Corporation, E.A. Posts and Telecommunications, just to mention a few.

[kevinoti]

@mavinga look, like i said im all for african countries working together and all that, but i want to maintain my identity as a kenyan, dont you think east african is too ambiguous? basically what it boils down to is, you are a federalist and im a nationalist a classic clash of opinions nothing personal

[mavinga]

And again, I may be naive, but why does globalization mean that Africans should not of their own initiative form for the first time in modern history their own political communities, I might be wrong, but wasn't slavery, colonization, Africa as a source of raw materials and importer of finished good all products of globalization.

Please inform me, because I am still trying to grasp these issues.

[mavinga]

excuse me for being so naive, there are many things I enjoy about African people from Kenyan , but kevinoti, if you don't mind, can you personally tell me what Individual Kenyan political identity do you have which you believe is so worthwhile that you are against the possibility of being part of an African people who with their own efforts as with all other decent people in the world, would created a political community.

[kevinoti]

i dont know where you are from but im assuming like me, you are or were born somewhere in east africa, now dont get me wrong i love my east african neighbours to bits, and the east african community is something to be proud of, but do we really have to lose our individual identities? british made borders or not , especially in this globalisation era thats all im sayin ,

[mavinga]

I'm just really sincerely curious to know, do you live in Kenya today, and more importantly, what is it about Kenya, a state whose political borders were not created by your ancestors, but by the British, and still does not have a national political community, is so dear to your heart that you would NOT want to become East African, a political community/culture and state that your descended could proudly say was genuinely created by their ancestors political imaginations...

[freegastanker1]

The above comments are not mine. The copy cat is the work of intelligence services to discredit my contributions here. KIBAKI needs to be made to pay for his criminal elements.

[jugholder]

a bigger market = more opportunity and better economic strength.