The Performance of Regional Integration in Africa

For more than six decades now, regional integration in Africa has been viewed as the continent’s alternative path to economic and socio-political transformation. As a result, a multiplicity of regional groupings (have) rocked the African continent since the 1960s, including the Central African Customs and Economic Union (CACEU), East African Community (EAC), Economic Community for West Africa (ECWA), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Comite permanent du Maghreb (Permanent Committee of Maghreb, Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Organization of Africa Unity (OAU) which later transformed itself into African Union (AU), and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), among others. Despite this multiplicity, however, there have been limited recent publications on how regional integration has fared in Africa. This Book, therefore, appendages the already existing literature on the subject, and, as a Case Study, goes deeper into analysing how the EAC (has) performed since its inception.