Purpose: African Unity has had a long history since the 1960s when most countries attained Independence. Two major views occurred in form of moderates who preferred gradual step towards and radicals favored now-now Unity. The moderates’ camp was led by Julius Nyerere Tanzania while radicals’ Kwame Nkrumah Ghana. competing did not alienate Africans quest for unity. They only differed pace at whi...

Background The East African Community (EAC) seeks to address challenges of vaccine and other commodities supply chain management by addressing weaknesses in human resource capacity. To achieve this EAC seeks to establish a Center of Excellence (CoE) with the objective of professionalizing health and immunization and related commodity logistics management in the region. The proposed framework fo...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence export logistics components: shipment arrangements, timely delivery, customs quality, trade infrastructure, and tracking tracing on competitiveness firms in East African Community (EAC). Design/methodology/approach study adopted Structural Gravity Model Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood (PPML). PPML a nonlinear estimation method was ...

Accessibility, accountability, and transparency are crucial tenets of any democratic society. East African Community member states hybrid democracies. Each country’s development agenda identifies science technology as drivers to leapfrog each one them middle-income status. For thrive in these emerging economies where resources limited but the demand for investme...

East African community (EAC) is a regional economic bloc established to foster corporation between Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Tanzania. Using gravity model the study explores short run long effect of on trade using parametric, random fixed estimation techniques. Secondly, investigates whether formation EAC led creation or diversion in among member countries EAC. Lastly, establishes entr...

After the emancipation of African slaves in the Caribbean, the labor void left by out-migrating former slaves was filled by in-migrating indentured servants from prepartition India and China. In some areas of the Caribbean such as Trinidad, Suriname, and Guyana, the East-Indian migrants formed large communities. In this article, we report a study based on mtDNA and Y-chromosomal markers of a sm...