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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade ReviewThis book is a truly special contribution to the epistemological interrogation of the impact of integration on the citizenship. Critically, the book analyses the genesis, manifestation and the historical process of eastafricanization from the prism of the citizen and within the doctrine of popular sovereignty. The uniqueness of this book is to give the student, the policy maker, governments and the citizen, a bird’s eye view of mapping out the future possibilities of the East African Community. -- Isaac Tarus, Egerton University
This is an important and essential book in the era of regional integration studies in international studies. The book is a master piece for everyone interested in the new concepts of Eastafricanness and the process of Eastafricanisation. This important text is a timely addition to International Relations, Foreign Policy and African International Studies courses, as well as a tool for policy makers, diplomats and NGO community. -- Dorothy Akoth Nyakwaka, Egerton University
Table of ContentsForeword, 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
