Talk:East African Federation

Merge? East African Community
if this is the same organization the articles should be merged: East African Community —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.241.137.237 (talk) 05:34, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Seems like a good idea. This article does not add anything that is not already said in the article of East African Community. --Kildor (talk) 07:42, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

What will the demonym be for the EAF? --LBCCCP (talk) 23:55, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I think East African is a good guess. TheArchaeologist Say Herro 22:23, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

I feel East African is more appropriate as a demonym, this coming from me as a Kenyan. George Kiritu Chege (talk) 19:26, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
 * No, this article is about a potential new country. I am very excited, I believe that merging small countries into bigger ones is the only way that could lead us to a "One World One Country" society, a society with no wars and discrimination. Big thumbs up to our East African brothers and sisters! 2001:8003:9003:1801:99C5:B2CD:5748:9DC5 (talk) 06:03, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
 * LoL. All countries practice discrimination. Such populous countries as Brazil, Russia and India are among leaders in this respect, although in India discrimination is determined by the traditional social structure and generally goes against the government policy. Or the IPv6 hopes that there is no discrimination in the PRC, perhaps? Incnis Mrsi (talk) 06:58, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
 * At least we can hope for a world without wars and discrimination. I think this proposal to merge not 2, but 6 countries is a good start. I am sad to see so many small countries breaks away from bigger ones and makes the world less united. 2001:8003:9003:1801:99C5:B2CD:5748:9DC5 (talk) 07:24, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Demonym
Per the Kenyan government, EAC national is the actual demonym/nationality for this federation: "most of the staff is to be of Kenyan/ EAC nationality or have resident status". Middayexpress (talk) 13:53, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Do you know what the word demonym means? "EAC national" isn't a demonym.  One could say that they are a "US national" or a "US citizen" or a "US resident", but that doesn't make any of these a demonym.  If you want to claim that "EAC national" is the demonym, you need a source which supports this, not just happens to use the phrase.  TDL (talk) 17:45, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

People in East Africa will more likely refer to themselves as East African George Kiritu Chege (talk) 19:25, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

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 * Unsuccessful. --1990&#39;sguy (talk) 23:42, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

South Sudan
South Sudan is highlighted on the map in the infobox as being a member of the East African Federation, and it is mentioned in EAF's entry in the List of proposed state mergers article, but it is not mentioned anywhere else in this article. Nowhere does this article mention it as a supporting nation. WHy the discrepancy? --1990&#39;sguy (talk) 23:50, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

Features section
Currently the opening paragraph of the Features section of the article claims that the proposed country would be both the 2nd and the 4th largest country in Africa and both the 10th and 17th largest in the world. Some citations and cleanup are needed. giso6150 (talk) 18:46, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

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Meaning of “East Africa”
, can demonstrate that mass-media, political analysts, or just people use “East Africa” (or Afrika Mashariki) to refer to a not-yet-existing country? Incnis Mrsi (talk) 08:02, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Currency code
I've added a "citation needed" for the currency code being EAS. If it was EAS, then the country code for the EAF would be EA. But EA is currently Ceuta and Melilla, and we don't know whether it'll be reassigned for the EAF. Or have I missed something? Marnanel (talk) 16:47, 2 February 2021 (UTC)


 * All the official EAC press releases don't refer to an "East African Shilling", they refer to a yet-to-be-named currency. I think the East African Shilling reboot is completely made up and I feel we should nix all references to it. It makes sense that they would avoid naming their new currency in a way that's such a direct continuation from the colonial period of East Africa—I would guess that the new currency would be a Kiswahili word in line with the movement's pan-Africanist sentiment (but yes, it's primarily economic). In my edits, I've been referring to the currency as the EAS just because that was the status quo of the article and I thought it would have a clear citation somewhere but I suppose not. This is how misinformation starts. CatsThisTime (talk) 23:02, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Update: only source I've found for EAS is a wikipedia editor from 2005 in the East African shilling article. CatsThisTime (talk) 16:56, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Link: https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/eac-council-approves-drc-admission-3712222

There is talk of the Democratic Republic of the Congo joining the East African Federation in the future. I wonder how serious is this proposal? Congo DR is a huge country, if it also joins the EAF, then Africa woud finally have its own dominant power which has direct access to both the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. 110.145.30.41 (talk) 09:57, 1 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Problem: The DRC touches the Atlantic Ocean, so it probably won’t join the federation, but I think that 🇸🇸 South Sudan would be a likely candidate. With those set in mind, I think the DRC should leave the East African Community. 2601:C6:D281:6710:816A:D36D:8E14:DF87 (talk) 13:51, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
 * It's looking like they will. CatsThisTime (talk) 16:07, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
 * It's looking like they will. CatsThisTime (talk) 16:07, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Agriculture
This can be added with economy Enibia (talk) 08:06, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

Shorten the History section
If people wish to read an in-depth history of the EAC, I think this article can refer them to the EAC page. Otherwise, we should focus on the future/prospective in this article—otherwise, it and the EAC article will be incredibly similar to where there is no need for two articles. I'd just mention the dates of various member accessing and the history of the drafting of the confederation's constitution. CatsThisTime (talk) 23:09, 13 June 2024 (UTC)