1. The history of colonial and early-independence regional organizations in East Africa is discussed in Joseph S. Nye, “East African Economic Integration,” Journal of Modern African Studies 1, no. 4 (1966), 475–502.
2. Of particular note, Nye points out (495), is the fact that East African Airways managed to become one of the most profitable airlines in the world. Nye was only one of the Western scholars, particularly from the functionalist school, who turned attention to the EAC. See also Arthur Hazelwood, “The East African Common Market: Importance and Effects,” Bulletin of the Oxford University Institute of Economics and Statistics 28, no. 1 (1966), 1–18;
3. Colin Leys and Peter Robson (eds.), Federation in East Africa: Opportunities and Problems (Nairobi: Oxford University Press, 1965);
4. Robert Rotberg, “The Federation Movement in British East and Central Africa, 1889–1953,” Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies 2, no. 2 (1963), 141–60;
5. Donald Rothchild (ed.), Politics of Integration: An East African Documentary (Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1968).