Although Africa is full of talk about mergers and federations of new nations, often the unity schemes are no more firm than maps drawn in the sand. But in Kenya last week, a serious, sensible and long-considered plan took shape.
In Nairobi, newly elected Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta presided over a meeting of his neighbors. On one side sat Uganda's Prime Minister Milton Apollo Obote, grinning cheerfully be neath his toothbrush mustache; on the other, Tanganyika's high-spirited President Julius Nyerere. Present as an observer: Somalia's Foreign Minister Abdullahi Issa. From three hours...
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