Former Colonies Closely Knit

But Political Union Is Remote

Political union of former | East African. Common Services |Nyerere, the apostle of an East British colonies in East Af- | Organization. African federation, has warn d rica is more remote now “The European Common Mar- for five years or more that the than before they gained in- | ket is not functioning as well 2s independence of the three cow- dependence. But there are a |our common market,” said Ad tries would make a politicel variety of explanations of- |oko Nekyon, Uganda's commu- tie-up more difficult: not easier fered, as shown in this re- (nity planning minister in a as some other leaders main- port by a Canadian Press |Kampala interview. ‘The Euro- tained. reporter who interviewed peans are only getting started-- ‘WOULD LOSE STATUS leaders in the region. they're learning from us.’ “What happens to my 21-gun

That may have been stretch salute?" Nyerere. once quipped.

By JOSEPH MacSWEEN ing things a bit but EACSO, tr- underlining the point that na

NAIROBI, Kenya (CP)—A big |deed, has a broad sweep: includ- |}i,na) leaders do not often. take twilding in Nairobi's..western |ing .everything from raifways, ‘kindly to giving up status. suburbs is the core of a net airlines, customs, harbors, post | Bu Nyerere was not is a work of 23 “common services’ offices, income tax and research | \joking mood when, that reach out to some 26,000,- | to the war against leprosy and |7, @& people in East Africa malaria.

were some char that Ironically, its very scope and | rg ges 2

The network linking * Kenya, f re had torpedoed the federation. Ucana and Tanzania is an eye. Success dramatize the failure |! a have been accused of tor- ica , an even greater concept long pedoing the idea, but I’m being

opener for visitors from more held in the former British terri-

7 . he ; h of ignoran hichly-developed countries who tories: political union, rerw [arennee hee ag ae =

learn that the European Com- widely regarded as a casualty been haopening.’” mor Market is a toddler in po'nt of independence wees hee | had ae’ pe o ears compared with the Tanzania’ s _President Julius | tablish its own currency, ending

its common currency arrange- iments with Uganda and Kenva. Nyerere was particularly -in- censed. by’ a suggestion that the move was linked with the June visit of Chinese Premier Chou FEn-lai to Dar es- Salaam “It's just as stupid as stupid can be,” said the presiden. “We've been discussing this currancy for four years."’ Tanzania, a poor country, was

doing a “logical" thing: it needed sole control over its cur- rency because of its big devel-

opment program. & Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta and

Uganda's Milton Obote have

also paid at least lip service to

swing through the three coun- tries convinced me there are

I that his country, the first to attain inde-

interviewed Dar es Salaam. he noted |

the ideal of federation but a !

| 8 The Guardian, Charlottetown, Tues. Nov. 9, 1965., 28 one of the most moderate of - ~—— African nationalists.

ais caams ae oe | is that Nyerere last brought Zanzibar into union with his country when cloves island a oe to become the Cuba of Africa

A. H. Jamal one of Nyer-

|pendence, offered to wait tor dering continental union and he the other two so that all would |has used the term “balkaniza- |hecome independent to join in | tion.” |a federation. But the other lead- Nyerere commented on this ers said that would mean Brit? with some bitterness in Decen: ain. the colonial power, wou'd ber, 1963, when he said: ““Geu | have a hand in the formation of uine difficulties do exist, as in the new political structure any other move to unity. Bul “| explained the reasons, the in understanding the difficulties interview: “The idea of Tan- obvious reasons, why it was thai do exist we must reject Zénia going Red is, of course easier to federate then,” said some of the pretensions thai rubbish. But even if it were | Nyerere. “I quoted as an ex- have been made from ouside true, could that explain the ai- ample the United States, Can- East Africa. titude of those who oppose fed- ada, many federations in - the “We have already heard the eration? Should they not then world which were federations curious argument that in be taking us into their em- before independence — not ati- some way existing (federations brace?’ o crwards.”” like that of Nigeria are with

Kenya came to uhuru (fred the Charter of African Unity, FORD EXPANDS dom) in December, 1983, the but new federations like that.of BANGKOK (AP) — The me last of the three countries to dv East Africa would be contrary Motor Company has approved so. Kenyatta, Nyerere and Ob- to it. These are attempts to rat- plans for assembly of its cars ote joined in a call for federa- ionalize absurdity." in Bangkok, Thai officials an- tion by the end of that .year. Perhaps the most fascinating nounced Suunday. The first cars | Later came a strange inci- speculation about the federation are expected to begin rolling out dent Kenyatta was reported to debacle is that it resulted from next year from a plant being have told a laughing African au- the allegedly new _lefist slant constructed. dience that the call was merely_| ee a a trick to persuade Britain to speed Kenya's independence. “We are now proceeding with out haste." Kenyatta was quoted as saying, although he subsequently denied the “trick’’ remark: it raised some eyebrows

Kenyatta’'s warmth to the idea is questioned although it us generally believed he would. be the first president of a federa- tion, with Nyerere the likely No, 2 man. Some observers betieve Kenvatta would not like to see

his Kikuyu tribe, biggest in : Kenya, “submerged” in a fed- We pause on this eration.

Special Day to remember those who died in two World Wars

HIT KENYA GOODS

Even before Tanzania an- nounced its currency decision, the limited East) African com- mon market was under severe | strain ‘and Kenya, the biggest exporter of the three, had started a major search for nev’ | markets.

Ministers ranged over Africa. the Middle East, Europe and ,parts of North America after | ‘Tanzania and Uganda slapped

restrictions on Kenyan goods, feeling they were getting the |

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| Stood that certain courses. would be left to Kampala’s Makerere

short end of the stick from Nai-_ | Tobi. i | Business svurces say that | | Uganda: with its relatively sol- | vent economy and unusual mon- archial tradition, could have much to lose in federating with the other two debt - burdened | and sociatist-inclined countries. | But Nekyon did not mention | those factors in a conversation | with this . He said the difficulty is ‘‘definition’ and the question of distribution of pow- ers between a central govern é

ment and the ‘units.’

| Nekyon conceded that some “frictions or misunderetand- ings” had arisen over attempts to establish an East African Un- -iversity..._It_..had... been__.under-

University, the oldest in the ter- riories, but then the younger | colleges in Kenya’ and Tanzania | also wanted to have such things

as. medical schools and. Jaw 7 ‘OPPOSED BY NKRUMAR | Thursday, Nov. 11th is

Behind al] this, however, is | the big issue of Pan-African. | ism. Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumoh

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