The post-independence integration endeavor of the East African Community has been punctuated with challenges, culminating into the collapse of the 1967-1977 regional organization. The renaissance of the integration agenda since the re-establishment of the regional organization in 1999 has rekindled epistemological debate among scholars and practitioners on the East African Community raison d'etre and integration process. This volume is the first of its kind in this ongoing debate that puts into proper context the nexus between the East African citizens and the integration agenda. Focusing on the Partner States case studies, the authors of the chapters operationalize the concepts of popular participation, eastafricanness, eastafricanization, democratization, and integration. Using political, national constitutions and EAC treaty, communication and awareness dimensions the authors of the chapters have analyzed the nexus between the EACcitizens and the integration process. The study generally proceeds from the premise that the exclusion of the EAC citizens from exercising their sovereign rights through popular participation undermines the prospects for the institutionalization and consolidation of the EAC identity, eastafricanness, eastafricanization, democratization and integration.
Foreword, John Eudes Ruhangisa Preface, Amb. Dr. Francis K. Muthaura, MBS, EGH Abbreviations and Acronyms Acknowledgements Dedication Part I: EAC Citizens' Sovereignty, Popular Participation and the East African Legislative Aassembly-National Assemblies Nexus: Political Dimensions Introduction: Setting the Theoretical, Conceptual and Epistemological Contexts Korwa Gombe Adar, Kasaija Phillip Apuuli, Agnes Lucy Lando, PLO-Lumumba, and Juliana Masabo 1.The Locus of the EAC Citizens' Sovereignty and Popular Participation in the Integration Project Pontian G. Okoth, 2.Burundi Citizens' Empowerment, Popular Participation and the EAC Integration Process Alfred Burimaso 3.Kenya Citizens' Sovereignty, Popular Participation and the EAC Integration and Democratization Mercy Kathambi Kaburu and Korwa Gombe Adar 4.Rwanda Citizens' Sovereignty, Popular Participation and the EAC Integration and Democratization Nicasius Achu Check 5.Sovereignty, Popular Participation and Democratization: South Sudan in the East African Community Yosa Wawa 6.Tanzania Citizens' Sovereignty, Popular Participation and the EAC Integration and Democratizatio Nicodemus Minde 7.Uganda's Citizen Sovereignty, Popular Participation and the EAC Integration and Democratization Aaron A. Mulyanyuma Part II: EAC Citizens' Sovereignty, National Constitutions and East African Community Treaty Nexus: Legal Dimensions 8.Burundi Citizens' Sovereignty, National Constitution and the EAC Treaty Nexus Francois Xavier Senene 9.Kenya Citizens' Sovereignty, National Constitution and the EAC Treaty Nexus PLO-Lumumba 10.Rwanda Citizens' Sovereignty, National Constitution and the EAC Treaty Nexus Andre Mbata Mangu 11.Tanzania Citizens' Sovereignty, National Constitution and the EAC Treaty Nexus Petro Protas and Juliana Masabo 12.Uganda Citizens' Sovereignty, National Constitution and the EAC Treaty Nexus Kasaija Phillip Apuuli Part III: East African Citizens Sovereignty-East African Community Nexus: Communication and Awareness Dimensions 13.The System of Communication within the EAC: Case Study of Burundi Clement Bigirimana 14.Kenya Citizens' Sovereignty and the EAC Nexus: The Role of Communication Agnes Lucy Lando and Faith W. Nguru 15.Rwanda Citizens' Sovereignty and the EAC Nexus: The Role of Communication Willy Mugezi 16.Communication and Awareness Dimensions: South Sudan and the EAC in Perspectives Gogonya Logo Martin 17.Tanzania's New Media Policies and New Hopes: Role of Communication, Popular Participation and the EAC Integration Hassan Abbasi 18.Uganda Citizens' Sovereignty and the EAC Nexus: The Role of Communication and Awareness Emilly Comfort Maractho Conclusion and Recommendations: Towards Eastafricanness and Eastafricanization Epistemological Debate Korwa Gombe.Adar, Kasaija Phillip Apuuli, Agnes Lucy Lando, PLO-Lumumba, and Juliana Masabo
