Has the clock of time for the East Africa Community (EAC) rolled back to 1977? This is the year when the marriage among the then three member states Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania became irretrievably broken, leading to the dissolution of EAC I.

The factors that led to the collapse of EAC I have been well documented in articles published by the United National Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).