In November 2019 the East African Community will mark 20 years since the signing of a treaty to re-establish the organisation after it collapsed in 1977.
The regional body has six members - Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan.
To assess what the region has achieved, its challenges and what the future holds for it, I spoke with veteran journalist Charles Onyango-Obbo following his special series of articles about the East African Community.
