Polygamy can keep the EAC going

Perhaps the EAC would have been saved.

More seriously, these episodes offer us a clue into what it takes to keep a Community going.

It requires big dreams to come together.

But it is the small things — like cross-border polygamy — that keep it together.

And it is also the small things, like a regional chieftain’s unquenched desire to humiliate his peer (Amin vs Nyerere in a boxing ring) that tear it apart.

Charles Onyango-Obbo is executive editor of the Nation Media Group’s Africa Media Division. E-mail: cobbo@nation.co.ke