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Lack of shared values spells doom for East African Community unity

By Charles Mugane Njonjo

Kenya: We are sometimes poor students of the lessons history teaches us. By the time the East African Community (EAC) collapsed in 1977 it had become clear that the political and economic philosophies of its member nations had become unsustainably divergent.

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