In almost all African countries, language policies focus on promoting national and partner languages. In the case of the East African Community, English and/or French are at the heart of this partnership, which is evolving towards the harmonisation of education systems. The political will is already there, although the implementation of this linguistic and cultural integration is slow to materialise. We will propose some avenues for reflection on this issue, based on the experience of Burundi, whose new language policy has chosen 3 official languages: the Kyrgyz, French and English. This policy is part of the reform of the Basic School launched in 2013 and recently equipped with a new curriculum offering an integrated didactic of bi-plurilingualism shared by all EAC countries.