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Chapter 1: Introduction – Africa's Regional Economic Communities (RECs) -- Chapter 2: Locating Africa's Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in IR Scholarship -- Chapter 3: New Paradigm: Communitarian, Humanist African Theory of Regional Integration -- Chapter 4: East African Community II: Second Time the Charm? -- Chapter 5: Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) -- Chapter 6: Southern African Development Community (SADC) -- Chapter 7: Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa – COMESA -- Chapter 8: Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) -- Chapter 9: Community of Sahel–Saharan States (CEN-SAD): All Our Northern Brethren -- Chapter 10: Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS): Tropical Heat, Troubled Middle -- Chapter 11: Arab Maghreb Union (AMU): (In or Mostly) Out of Africa and Tumultuous Inertia -- Chapter 12: Africa's RECS – Promise and Peril, Pandemic Slips and Possible Futures.

Preface -- Preliminaries -- Introduction -- Kenyan Government COVID-19 Administrative Responses and Strategies -- Public Health Responses and Strategies: Basic Hygiene Responses -- Public Health Strategies: Epidemiological Responses -- Government Institutional and Administrative Responses and Reactions -- Economic Impacts, Governance Implications and Educational Outcomes -- Socio-Cultural Traditions, Religious Observances and Community Responses -- COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies, Implications and Outcomes -- Conclusion -- References -- Index

This book explores foreign policy developments in post-colonial Africa. A continental foreign policy is a tenuous proposition, yet new African states emerged out of armed resistance and advocacy from regional allies such as the Bandung Conference and the League of Arab States. Ghana was the first Sub-Saharan African country to gain independence in 1957. Fourteen more countries gained independence in 1960 alone, and by May 1963, when the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was formed, 30 countries were independent. An early OAU committee was the African Liberation Committee (ALC), tasked to work in the Frontline States (FLS) to support independence in Southern Africa. Pan-Africanists, in alliance with Brazzaville, Casablanca and Monrovia groups, approached continental unity differently, and regionalism continued to be a major feature. Africa's challenges were often magnified by the capitalist-democratic versus communist-socialist bloc rivalry, but through Africa's use and leveraging of IGOs – the UN, UNDP, UNECA, GATT, NIEO and others – to advance development, the formation of the African Economic Community, OAU's evolution into the AU and other alliances belied collective actions, even as Africa implemented decisions that required cooperation: uti possidetis (maintaining colonial borders), containing secession, intra- and inter-state conflicts, rebellions and building RECs and a united Africa as envisioned by Pan Africanists worked better collectively. Stephen Magu's research focuses on international political economy, economic development, governance and foreign policy issues as relating to Africa. He is the author of Great Powers and US Foreign Policy towards Africa (2019), Peace Corps and Citizen Diplomacy: Soft Power Strategies in U.S. Foreign Policy (2018) and The Socio-Cultural, Ethnic and Historic Foundations of Kenya's Electoral Violence: Democracy on Fire (2018), and co-editor of Corruption Scandals and their Global Impacts (with Omar Hawthorne, 2018).

A brief history of Kenya: from colony to independence -- Post-independence, succession, autocracy and global geopolitics -- Democracy, our way, and multiparty politics -- Change to believe in: new beginnings -- Reconfiguring the politiscape: return of history and the end of hope -- Resolving Kenya's complex socio-historical contestations -- Contemporary Kenya: first half century and opportunities -- Concluding thoughts: 2017, lessons of 2007, 2010 and 2013

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