Popular Participation in the Integration of the East African Community: Eastafricanness and Eastafricanization

by Korwa Gombe Adar (Editor), Kasaija Phillip Apuuli (Editor), Agnes Lucy Lando (Editor), PLO-Lumumba (Editor), Juliana Masabo (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781793605511
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	03/15/2024
Pages:	402
Product dimensions:	6.23(w) x 9.05(h) x (d)

About the Author

Korwa Gombe Adar is professor of international studies at the University of Botswana.

Kasaija Phillip Apuuli is associate professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Makerere University.

Agnes Lucy Lando is associate professor of communication and media studies at Daystar University.

PLO-Lumumba is associate professor of public law at Kabarak University.

Juliana Masabo is a judge of the High Court of Tanzania. She was formerly senior lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Dar es Salaam.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

This 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.

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.

From the Publisher

This 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

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