A Tale of Two Railways: Awakening of Kenya
More than a century ago, the British built a railway in East Africa as part of its colonial conquest of the region, subjugating native tribes who resented. The meter-gauge railway is synonymous with Kenya’s painful colonial history while the Chinese-built Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway, launched in mid-2017, is synonymous with the country’s vision for modernization.
By Globalink
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