What about a bit of sense and a bit less nonsense.
The new KCARs and UCARs and TzCARs are here to stay because the governments are signatories to the Chicago Convention and are obliged to follow ICAO Standards (by law, in Uganda).
The problem is not the regs in themselves -which in any case are here to stay. The problems are:
1) the CAAs have not filed differences to take into account local conditions - look at the aerodrome regs. This is because the CAAs (wrongly) believe that filing differences is a measure of failure and they are very proud that they have not filed differences.
2) the interpretation of the new regs. In Uganda we are tackling the CAA on personnel licencing, but the CAA view has been that while the new regs (a copy and paste from FARs) are highly permissive, the CAA actually intends blithely to continue applying the old (micro-management) regs. The UCAA have little option but to follow FAA interpretations, but are loathe so to do.
The new regs (if adhered to) clearly spell doom for light aviation in EA. So we can either fight our corner or cry in our beer. If we want to fight then we have to address 1 and 2 by challenging bad interpretations of the law and by pushing for differences (on aerodromes, for instance) where the wider public interest may be at stake.
(It is interesting that the KCARs were allowed through in the public interest.)
In Uganda we have started to engage the CAA and our position is that the regs belong to both operators and regulators and that the regulators do not have the final voice by a long way. We have found parts of the CAA that are hostile to our approach, but other regulators who understand what we are trying to do and are sympathetic.
And there is a cultural (no, not black/white, or even African, sorry) problem that the CAAs need to address - the philosophy driving the ICAO model regs is that operators must regulate themselves and their staff, and CAAs are to concentrate on policing the operators, whereas the old British model regulations called for the CAAs to micro-manage every last detail. It will take some time for this new philosophy or culture to take root.
Maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to drop all the crapulous racist nonsense and work together to do something positive.