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The political developments in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya under the burner of Arab spring, the birth of South Sudan as the fifty fourth African state and the recent political problems witnessed in Mali, Sudan, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea Bissau are a stark reminder that Africa is still a continent on drift. This makes it difficult to predict the direction of the drift and likely socio-economic and political consequences for the continent. Paradoxically political developments in all the affected countries have the same underpinning factors namely, a political culture natured by negative ethnicity; elite focus on capital acclamation and protection of the same by patronage; the western government and corporate world collusion with the ruling elite for geopolitical and strategic interests and resource exploitation, and continued failure of attitude change in Africa for communities to accept each other within the current artificial nation-state constructs.

This study assesses the Kenyan policy and institutional framework concerning South–South labour migration with particular focus on the East African Community (EAC) countries. It focuses mainly on one particular policy instrument, the East African Community Common Market framework. The research further looks at country-specific policies in relation to the common market framework. The study relied on desk research into the existing literature and public records; key informant interviews (KIIs) of policymakers in respective EAC Partner States' governments with the exception of Burundi; as well as with private labour recruitment agencies in each country. The study has found that the EAC framework is not sufficiently implemented at the national level and only inconsistently incorporates other country-specific policies dealing with labour migration in the region. The study underlines Kenya's dominance in the EAC, especially in terms of its best trained and skilled human resources working in all EAC Partner States. The main recommendation centres on the need for harmonizing national labour policy frameworks and legislation as well as the free movement of labour as enshrined in the Protocol on the East African Community Common Market (PEACCM).