So this is what Africa has been doing 

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Somehow this is more entertaining than some actual videos that are inteded for entertainment

If African countries get united, they may finally have a foot on the world stage. But something tells me this isn’t going to work out-either due to outside influence or infighting.

As a Nigerian I wished EAF can meet thier core goals and reason for the creation of this community considering the fact that this states are not totally at peace with each. Uganda and Rwanda sponsoring the m20 rebels in a member state of DRC.

If this ever happens (I'm Congolese) it'd be a massive boon for them collectively, Congo yearns for development and prosperity. If this allows my people to progress, prosper and become economically rich and also embrace their resources better with the world and their partners then the sky is the bloodclart limit 🔥

Feel like Rwanda will be a big winner in this. As a country without seas to allow for international trades, it can use the other associates resources.

I had great hopes for this project when it seemed like a serious endeavor by functioning countries with a good plan, unifying countries that have ethic, cultural, geographic, economic, and language commonalities. Then it got delayed, for some understandable reasons. But when they added DRC who two members are still fighting with, and S Sudan which isn't even a functioning country, I realized the EAC was nothing but a lovely hope, a symbol, a notion to aspire to that the powers in place had no intention of setting into motion. If they scaled it back to the core countries that could actually function together, it might become a real plan again.

Always want Africa to prosper, love from India 🇮🇳

High speed rail going west coast to east coast in this Union would be incredible and a huge tourist attraction

EAC passport can be used internationally. Each member state issues an EAC passport to its individual citizens (to replace National Passports), but regardless, the passport is internationally recognised and in current use -- from a Kenyan.

Such an exciting content you're making on your channel! Keep on the good work

As an Indian, I'm inexplicably excited for this development and hope it succeeds.

I would love to see a further in-depth video on this topic again!

I do wonder if the nations will unite at some point, that’d be cool to see wouldn’t it?

This was a good idea until DR Congo joined

The East African Federation (EAF) should be renamed into the Central African Federation (CAF), because the introduction of the Democratic Republic of Congo into the EAF has made the EAF not really East African, since the DRC has a coast in the Atlantic Ocean and therefore the EAF stretches from ocean to ocean, which actually makes it more Central African.

good going EAF! i wish you all prosperity and love from sweden

I like how much footage of South Africa you used.

Every continent should have a federation/union of some sort but it does not need to be like the US or for that matter the EU. However, Africa has been the punching bag for a long time and several of the nations in the region fight eachother making it easy for others (mostly China at this time) to buy them up. It would be effective to create a federation, but there are to much warlord mentality in certain African regions so saying that means little.

Well done, another great video. Thank you

Surprisingly, a lot of East African people know about this, yet don't see any community disagreeing. It is because even before the introduction of the federation, people were engaging with each other in terms of business and travel.

Thank you for referencing your videos 👏🏼

ECOWAS could easily do this as well but France keeps sabotaging any efforts to unite...we were supposed to have a common currency for all of ECOWAS in 2020 similar to the Euro but France stopped it at the last minute before it was implemented. I wish East Africa well and hope this federation happens soon

I haven’t heard about this in a while. I’m glad it’s progressing forward.

It's sad that there's going to be a big famine this winter, then. I really want it to succeed.

❤️Thanks for spending the time to create and share this content awareness 🙏🏾

Shouldve delayed entry of DRC and south sudan.

Funny how you showed several clips of South Africa when talking about the EAF. Its like doing a video on the EU and then showing clips of Russia.

I guess, that the creation of eu had worked, because it was an organic an incremental process. In the beginning it was just a quite small number of states. Furthermore its scope was limited, so the governments that participated were not afraid to give up power (in the beginning it regarded only the production of coal and steel, but did not aim at becoming a supranational body. Beneficial was also, that the French were afraid of a growing influence by the USA and the permanent threat of the UdSSR. Due to those special circumstances the eu is hardly comparable and any lesson should be taken with a grain of salt.

Bruh, you're calling South Sudan and DR Congo "relatively stable".....?

Wait, so DRC and South Sudan are officially joining EAF? I thought it was just a proposal for future development

I think it is a disservice to humanity as a whole for "systems" and "governments" to try to contain the people of the African nations. Think about all the innovations in tech, health care, and inventions that could be produced and shared around the world by the people of Africa. But short term thinking is the modus operandi of the people in charge.

Just an observation: Countries/federations can be initiated at the top, but you need a bottom-up effort as well. I heard the narrator talk about community private businesses which might be a strength--a culture of entrepreneurship. If that could be married to a community development entity which contracts with small businesses and encourages worker owned cooperatives (another form of entrepreneurship) to grow the wealth of the local economy, that could impact people where they live directly rather than perceived chattering by far away elites. If the federation could create institutions to encourage such efforts, might that grow the acceptance for a larger set of institutions to take advantage of economies of scale? It might also have a side benefit of bypassing some of the worst abuses at the "national" levels. I agree this has to be an African solution as Africa is not Europe, or North America for that matter. Still there are some universal characteristics which would be worth exploring--heck, you might avoid some of the foibles of Europe or North America.

Another reason why the EAF/EAC is delayed is because some African countries in the federation (mainly DR Congo and Rwanda) have tensions between each other

Love your new videos.

Good luck to the EAF. Africa needs to unite and live in peace before any significant wealth building can occur.

The DRC about to destroy this African EU

I really wish this project to be a success (and a similar one in West Africa) but i will believe it only when it's there.

Joint passport for EAC can also be used across the world. However you can travel to some nations in the EAC with only a national document

That little jingle there at 2:31 reminds me of a song by a distinguished Floridian named Baby Soulja, called Trials and Tribulations similar in fact to the struggle to unify that you explained in this video.

Petition to call the common currency “the Afro”

If we all believe in unity and work for it then everything is possible,but if we keep saying it's impossible without even trying then we make everything impossible. Africa was one before colonization and colonization came along with hatred and hatred brought jealousy,jelousy brought greediness which resulted in conflict among ourselves. From Kenya 🇰🇪I love and respect all all Africans despite of which country you come from and not forgetting Indians who have been good friends to africans without discrimination. May God bless kenya and Africa at large.

1:58 relative stabilitY.... my dude, the drc has been in a civil war since forever

After all these years Mittelafrika is finally being realized.

I hope it works well for east Africa 🌍 🙏

Support the unification of the EAF from Romania 🇷🇴

I Support this!! Humanity should grow further and further together instead of growing apart, only this way we can secure our future in peace instead of destroying ourselfs

Balkans can into EU! 2:24

Just a slight correction. The EAC passports is in operation outside of East Africa. In Kenya, any new passports issued since 2014 are EAC passports.

I laughed at Doctor Congo (DR Congo) in the beginning lol.

I didn't knew, that DRC is actually included in the EAF... When did the consideration of including them happend?

To see this evlove will be very interesting. I hope EU and EAF will grow a good realtionship.

This union seems impossible from an outsider perspective. 7 nations, with wide range of cultural, and more importantly, linguistic differences. Kenya and Tanzania are like sister nations, so are Rwanda and Burundi. I could see these hypotherically form unions. Uganda is in an awkward spot in between where I don't see any way they could unite with anyone. The leader is crazy and unwilling to collaborate with their neighbors like Rwanda and Kenya, making things extremely complicated. Then yet alone South Sudan, which is the world's youngest nation which is still facing wars and resource conflicts. South Sudan is so unstable, it could almost be classified as a failed state. The DRC is an extremely corrupted country, and their population centers are so extremely far away from Kenya and Tanzanias populations, that it makes no sense for them to form a federation together. And in the DRC they speak French, whilst in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, they use English, and a lot of Swahili. The DRC is so disconnected from the rest. They need to work together better, but forming a federation is an aim too high.

Just stayed in Rwanda for 2 months. It's growing so fast. Just wait and see.

from sea to shining sea

Nice Video, like

DR Congo and South Sudan are already unable to hold themselves together and enforce government control and rule of law, a union with them in it is doomed to failure, how can you integrate with other countries when you can't even integrate your own nation? Not to mention how DR Congo and Uganda are not exactly on good terms. Without them this would have been quite a powerful idea.

First they need interstate toll highways then interstate freight railway then interstate passenger railway. If they can manage these infrastructure conglomerates then they can discuss a highway patrol & railroad police to patrol it then form a battalion rapid reaction for regional military force integration. All of this is based on economies of scale by simply having centralized police & military academies with the same standards. The main goals first transportation, communication, policing, defense, monetary, fiscal.

5:12 best picture ever of two protagonist

If this does happen this will without a doubt be the most likely “African Superpower”. However this has been talked about for a while and I know forming unions isn’t an overnight thing but I’ve seen more criticism from both outside and internal voices of this union and I think the DRC joining deterred a lot of people from the idea considering many were iffy about South Sudan joining in the first concept. But I do hope they work something out as this country could be insanely powerful if the right decisions are made.

Honestly it could work if we removed South Sudan and the DRC.

Pretty good soundtrack. I could here some Johannes Bornlöf over there

Needed this.

Africa country need to come together in unite 🥇🤑👌📈

Thank you for "shedding light" on this. I agree with George Ayittey, Africans must design their own solution and not simply "cut and paste" from Europe, it won't work!

I'm from East Africa and i didn't know this

@OBF am from Rwanda loved the video where did you get the map @ 1:15 from?

An alliance requires either a relatively strong country at its core, or an external enemy to unite against. The EU has the latter, and NATO has both. I see neither in the EAC. Many of their enemies are internal. Furthermore, an alliance between mostly democratic countries is a lot easier than an alliance between autocratic countries. The burden of war is shouldered by the ordinary citizen far more than the leaders. As a result, democracies are less willing to pay the costs of war, and thus go to war a lot less often. A dictator is willing to spend a few hundred thousand lives if it gets him what he wants. Africa will have to evolve into something different entirely before it can pull something like this off.

Simply due to population, it's bound to become the most powerful nation by the end of the century.

DRC is their biggest challenge. if the EAF makes DRC relatively functional and safe, it will succeed.

It'll be worth multi trillions, your maths is way out....

Thanks for the interesting video topic. This kind of reminds me of something I think I remember coming across on here a few years ago. Wasn't Muammar Gaddafi proposing some kind of set up alliance kind of like this? This felt a little familiar. Mind you I don't remember the full details of what Gaddafi's alliance system would entail, but I thought the basic idea kind of reminded me of the current system these countries are working on.

We haven't talked about the African Union (AU), but about the east african federation (eaf)

East African federation * has a western coast *

What is the cross section for access into the interior and across the continent. Brazil has a major coastal access problem, is the EAF similarly affected? then the intyerior, how many geophysical barriers like the rocky mountains, Himalayas, or alps, exist? I understand they recently financed a major railroad with China that is not performing well, hopefully they can add feeders onto that to bring it up to expectations. That is a north south rail connection, are there plans for a indian to atlantic connection? I am watching with interest because time is running out for them to get things together before the spare capitol dries up.

As a Kenyan, half as much as I would love the union....just not anytime soon. the east African nations are almost similar but very different at the same time.

Mittleafrika

In East Africa only Tanzania 🇹🇿🇹🇿 has less internal and external conflicts compared to the rest and that's makes it hard to form a federation

I myself am very optmistic, This can be a new start for africa! A attempt to actually stabilize and modernize, And stand on the world stage as a independent power and not our resource basket

I think this will be good for the world. I think Africa as a whole might be too large for a single regional union though (Africa is bigger than it looks on maps), depending on how large of unions humans eventually organize themselves into. I think Africa should have 2 regional unions. East/south + west? But should North Africa go with the Middle East or with West Africa, or does the Maghreb even fit with the EU? Does the Red Sea facing part of Africa go with East African Union or with the Middle East? Is the Middle East even a coherent regional union, considering Turkey might join the EU, or is the EU’s destiny to gradually encircle the Mediterranean like the Roman Empire? If the EU enlarges to include a lot of the Middle East, then the 2 subsaharan regions should merge into 1 super-union to balance the bigger EU (or whatever that union would be called at that point).

It'll be a good thing for balancing the powers between East and West. Of course are the warlords willing to give up power to a federation similar to the EU.

The true plane is the founding of EASF (European African Space Force) and take controle abput the whole galaxy also knowed as "the imperium".

As an european I look forward to the day when African nations can catch up with the so-called "first world" and provide their people with the living standards that all the peoples of the world deserve. Meanwhile, we live in an absolute excess that could be shared with all. We could eliminate world hunger today if instead of eating too much and throwing away overproduced amounts of food would instead leave it unproduced and send the excess ingredients to where it's needed and also produce food where it's needed. To provide the means to make and even grow their own food, to provide jobs and education, all without the goal of making a profit for someone and without telling them how they should live. All we have to do is to give them equal baseline to grow.

i hope the EU🇪🇺 and the EAF become good friends

Why not? That's the best thing that could happen when people help each other instead. We need friendly countries and interactions not constant misery and war.

I'm an American who believes this will be a giant step in the right direction that will further motivate and benefit the entire continent. I pray for its success. Lord willing outsiders and corruption will not be able to continue to exploit these "developing" nations.

Interesting. Why is there footage of Cape Town at 1:20?

EU was a French Institution with Germans drafting the monetary policy(they later hijacked the whole thing). The point being there are no equivalents to those countries that can fulfill the roles that they did in Africa and certainly not in Central Africa. This is bound to be a failure. If this was done after these countries had achieved a modicum of industrial development I would've been a little less pessimistic. The Geography of the whole region makes it a non starter to begin with. These countries cant even govern themselves properly.

With its natural resources the success of this federation is imminent and the fact that no western media is talking about it show that it is a good thing for Africa Please push this to happen 💯💯❤️

I really do not see Rwanda and DRC joining forces voluntarily.

What video mockup did you use for that eu protest shot at 6:00 ? Never seen that before!

I wish my African brother and sisters the best of success from 🇵🇰

Why people keep entertaining this silly idea?

0:50 an epic transition, to the same thing we were looking at in the first place

The passport can be used for international travel, in fact, each country has changed over from the previous passport to the new one. Travel between most of the member states doesn't require a passport. State issued photo ID is sufficient.

Good. I’m ready to see a united Africa that I can travel to

As much of a challenge as it is, I hope they succeed, world needs more unity than ultranationalist right now

Can you make the video about The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) too? in order to compare this multilateral cooperation. Thank you

I’ve got a feeling this is gonna end like Yugoslavia

A united monetary currency and a plan for a political union may work well