The Crazy Plan to Make an African Giant

It's official! As of November 24th, 2023, Somalia has joined the East African Community. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/24/somalia-officially-joins-east-africa-trade-bloc Also I don’t know why I was shouting in this video

I feel like in the end only the core 5 of the initial proposal will stick. South Sudan and the DRC are potentially too unstable. It would be easy to build an identity around the Swahili history an make Swahili the lingua franca

Honestly the EAF should just start with the original countries. Join together with them, since that’s the core of the country. Then once that’s stable, expand to the DRC or South Sudan. Those countries aren’t as developed and would be a strain on the union, and while I’m not against them joining, should happen only after it gets off the ground.

I remember first hearing about this a few months ago and being very intrigued. It seems like a bureaucratic nightmare to get established but if it does then it would seemly be very beneficial to each country and the people. I think of those industrialized mega cities in Africa like New Mombasa in Halo which would be a dream

You did us dirty in East Africa with that image of a big head😂😂😂😂

Meanwhile in congo: Rwanda and Uganda - Nothing to see here

The problem with several countries merging into one like this is the whole endeavor hinges on several leaders giving up their power to one central authority, and each leader thinks they should be that central authority. For the EAF to be viable, they need a George Washington-esque figure who everyone can agree should be the person in charge. No President, Prime Minister, or what have you wants to voluntarily reduce themselves to a regional governor unless they stand to gain an extraordinary amount in political or economic capital.

I love how you use little regional animals painted with flags for your nation representers. It's unique and kinda cute

With South Sudan joining the initiative, it already became more difficult, the DRC made it close to impossible.

Tribalism and tribal traditions are the biggest obstacles. People from the SAME country can't even get along.

Style, entertaining and informative to the point. Eclectic background music for each video is fabulous.

I'm surprised you didn't address the elephant in the room that is the DRC's political status in an East African Federation. The DRC is roughly the size of the rest of the Federation and has (by my unrefined estimate) over 1/3 of its population, so if the Federation were to preserve the integrity of its member states, the DRC would exert an enormous level of gravity on its politics. Federations always hate it when one constituent ends up with more influence than anyone else, but pair that with the DRC being underdeveloped and more peripheral compared to its eastern neighbours for some potential chaos over what the DRC's place in the EAF would or should be.

The first step is that only Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda would unite. Only after that the others could slowly join.

As a congolese. The DRC should have focused on the development of our country. 80% of our country is not at conflict, we getting better in fixing our political problems, with an enormous country. We have the majority of the population. Let’s focus on building our country first. We have come a long way since the Congo wars. Fix before joining.

so cool how you get this information about East Africa so spot on. Big up from Kenya