The road to the East African Community has assumed a new urgency with President Uhuru Kenyatta telling the Ugandan parliament that regional unity is the surest way to erase the last vestiges of colonialism on the continent.
During a historic visit, President Kenyatta joined his Ugandan counterpart, Yoweri Museveni, in making impassioned pleas to other regional states to embrace integration, citing recent regional infrastructural projects as evidence that the region has the capacity to rise form the ashes of colonialism to power.