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A Wider Eastern African Economic Union? Some Geographical Aspects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

A. M. O'Connor
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Economic integration in East Africa has been discussed throughout the past 50 years or more, although—until recently—only in terms of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Almost as soon as Kenya and Uganda became established as political entities, close economic links were established between them, and when British administration was extended to Tanganyika after 1918 that country was brought into close relationship with its two northern neighbours. Thus a customs union between Kenya and Uganda was established in 1917, and Tanganyika was gradually incorporated within it between 1922 and 1927. The links were strengthened as economic development advanced, and were formalised under the East Africa High Commission from 1948 onwards: so they became an important part of the inheritance of the three states as they gained political independence in the years 1961–1963.1

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , December 1968 , pp. 485 - 493
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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Page 485 note 1 For historical details, see Nye, J. S., ‘East African Economic Integration’, in The Journal of Modern African Studies (Cambridge), 1, 4, 12 1963, pp. 475–502;CrossRefGoogle Scholar and East Africa: Report of the Economic and Fiscal [Raisman] Commission (London, 1961), Cmd. 1279.Google Scholar

Page 485 note 2 See Hazlewood, A. (ed.), African Integration and Disintegration (London, 1967), pp. 69–114;Google Scholar and Mazrui, Ali, On Heroes and Uhuru- Worship (London, 1967), pp. 73–95.Google Scholar

Page 486 note 1 See Treaty for East African Co-operation (Nairobi, 1967),Google Scholar and the summary and interpretadon by Green, R. H. in The Journal of Modern African Studies, V, 3, 1967.Google Scholar

Page 486 note 2 The general case for this has been outlined by e.g. Lipsey, R., ‘The Theory of Customs Unions’, in The Economic Journal (Cambridge), LXX, 1960, pp. 496–513,CrossRefGoogle Scholar and Ewing, A. F., ‘Prospects for Economic Integration in Africa’, in The Journal of Modern African Studies, v, 1, 05 1967, pp. 53–67;CrossRefGoogle Scholar and the advantages in the case of East Africa in particular by the Raisman Report, and Newman, P., ‘The Economics of Integration in East Africa’, in Leys, C. and Robson, P. (eds.), Federation in East Africa (Nairobi, 1965).Google Scholar

Page 487 note 1 See Green, R. H. and Krishna, K. G. V., Economic Co-operation in Africa (Nairobi, 1967), p. 100.Google Scholar

Page 487 note 2 Some of these problems are discussed by Massell, B. F., East African Economic Union (Santa Monica, 1963).Google Scholar

Page 487 note 3 Cf. D. P. Ghai, ‘Territorial Distribution of the Benefits and Costs of the East African Common Market’, in Federation in East Africa.

Page 487 note 4 E.g. Hazlewood, op. cit. p. 79.

Page 488 note 1 Source: International Monetary Fund, Direction of Trade (Washington), 07 1967.Google Scholar