African Unification Front
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ON REVITALIZATION OF THE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY
COMMITMENT TO PAN AFRICANISM IS VITAL FOR SUCCESS
The revival of the EAC is a step forward in the region. The systematic progression towards African unification is iron-clad logic, and will happen in spite of the failures of the leaders in the region.
The next step is to make sure that the community stays away from signing exclusive trade arrangements with the EU or any of the G7 without the participation of SADC, ECOWAS, or COMESA reprentatives. The EAC must include COMESA, SADC and ECOWAS in any future external trade arrangements, otherwise we will have a recurrence of major unplanned failures in labour mobility, industrial growth, and agricultural production.
The efforts to coordinate the functions of the stock exchanges, currency markets (even illegal ones), and grain marketing activites in Nigeria, Ghana, and Eastern Africa will eventually make profitable trade easier, and help push down the costs industrial production without devaluing African labour. However, these efforts require regimes that are committed to Pan Africanism on a full-time basis, not as a by-the-way attitude that has resulted in the loss of 20 years of a disunited East Africa. There is no need for more duplication of services (especially on those sectors that have huge capital outlays and huge revenues to operate).
It is critical that we push for the amalgamation or dissolution of the Kenya Army, UPDF and the TPDF. They all ought to be placed under the OAU (under the provision of the African Defense Force), or they should accept joint command, with representation from SADC and ECOMOG. It must be made clear that the use of African armies against Africans is wrong.
Best regards,
Kashagama
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