Popular Participation in the Integration of the East African Community

PLO-Lumumba; Korwa Gombe Adar; Kasaija Phillip Apuuli; Agnes Lucy Lando; Juliana Masabo

doi:10.5771/9781793605504

Summary

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.

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Copyright year: 2020
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-0549-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-0550-4
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 382
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Abbreviations and Acronyms No access
3. Foreword No access
4. Preface No access
5. Acknowledgments No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Chapter 1 The Locus of the EAC Citizens’ Sovereignty and Popular Participation in the Integration Project No access
3. Chapter 2 Burundi Citizens’ Empowerment, Popular Participation, and the EAC Integration Process No access
4. Chapter 3 Kenya Citizens’ Sovereignty, Popular Participation, and the EAC Integration and Democratization No access
5. Chapter 4 Rwandan Citizens’ Sovereignty, Popular Participation, and the EAC Integration and Democratization No access
6. Chapter 5 Sovereignty, Popular Participation, and Democratization No access
7. Chapter 6 Tanzania Citizens’ Sovereignty, Popular Participation, and the EAC Integration and Democratization No access
8. Chapter 7 Uganda Citizens’ Sovereignty, Popular Participation, and the EAC Integration and Democratization No access
1. Chapter 8 Burundian Citizens’ Sovereignty, National Constitution, and the EAC Treaty Nexus No access
2. Chapter 9 Kenya Citizens’ Sovereignty, National Constitution, and the EAC Treaty Nexus No access
3. Chapter 10 Rwanda Citizens’ Sovereignty, National Constitution, and the EAC Treaty Nexus No access
4. Chapter 11 Tanzania Citizens’ Sovereignty, National Constitution, and the EAC Treaty Nexus No access
5. Chapter 12 Uganda Citizens’ Sovereignty, National Constitution, and the EAC Treaty Nexus No access
1. Chapter 13 The System of Communication within the EAC No access
2. Chapter 14 Kenya Citizens’ Sovereignty and the EAC Nexus No access
3. Chapter 15 Rwanda Citizens’ Sovereignty and the EAC Nexus No access
4. Chapter 16 Communication and Awareness Dimensions No access
5. Chapter 17 Tanzania’s New Media Policies and New Hopes No access
6. Chapter 18 Uganda Citizens’ Sovereignty and the EAC Nexus No access
Index No access Pages 363 - 372
1. THE EDITORS No access
2. THE CONTRIBUTORS No access