BUWEMBO: Will the third phase EAC be lucky enough to avoid its political death?
We have lived to see EAC expand to six partner states plus several applicants waiting to join, yet we are now standing at its graveside as government undertakers hold their shovels ready for its burial. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGA | NMG
As the second phase of the East African Community comes to the end, we wait to see what shape the third phase will take.
These East African things tend to come in phases. In Tanzania, they actually use the word ‘‘phase,’’ whose Kiswahilli equivalent perfectly also rhymes perfectly with ‘‘phase.’’ I think they are now on the Fifth Phase government since Independence.
