Introduction
East Africa is formed by countries found in east of Africa namely, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, East Africa, and Rwanda. There are other member states that are found in East Africa but are not members of the East African federation like Somali. Geographically they are located within the perimeters of East Africa but are not member states. These countries made a federation known as the East African community (EAC).
In the first place, the arrangement of East Africa and its governmental issues involves quite a bit of legislative issues of identity. It is critical to make reference to that the term Ethnic struggle as said by the learned people, an exceptionally challenged peculiarity has been a piece of global governmental issues from the beginning of time and is a still a typical type of contemporary outfitted clash all throughout the planet. Additionally, one ought to comprehend that outlining this wide and wide idea in the period of relative investigation of ethnic struggle in East Africa establish an intense errand. Ethnic struggle has been a significant issue that has tormented contemporary East and Central Africa, spreading across the landmass. Regularly different clans and ethnic gatherings have long standing chronicles of contention among themselves that may maybe clarify these episodes of savagery; nonetheless, unreasonably frequently ethnic struggle has brought forth from legislative issues and financial predispositions, rather than essentially social issues. Politics of these countries is mostly based on tribes. For example Chukuyu in Kenya are dominating political offices and presidency, the Tutsi in Rwanda are dominating political offices, Banayankole from the west in East Africa are fornicating political offices and Chaga tribe in Tanzania Kusimba, (2017).
When it comes to affairs between citizens and public institutions in East Africa, their existence is not an adequate proof that they enjoy the political trust of citizens. In this regard, the important question that needs to be answered is whether or not existing public and political institutions that have emerged since independences of these East African countries are adequate enough for promoting trust in making political relations work smoothly (Stokes, 2009).
The colonization and apparently counter-intuitive division of Africa by European powers in the late nineteenth century didn’t do anything to forestall or fight ethnic struggle in the coming many years without a doubt the politically propelled production of new boundaries on the landmass decently added to later ethnic clash in the East African region. Be that as it may, did the rotting wounds left by the European colonizers straightforwardly cause later ethnic brutality. Rather than posing such a particular inquiry, it is smarter to look at these struggles as having both extreme and more prompt causes. For example in the case of the Rwanda genocide and other boarder conflicts between East Africa and Kenya and Tanzania clearly shows the great effects/challenges that such drastically occasion has caused in the post division and forming of East African governmental issues.