WATCH: A Tale of Two Railways — Awakening of Kenya
|Published
Chinese instructor Jiang Liping and apprentice Horace Owiti walk past a train carriage on the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway in Nairobi, Kenya, May 23, 2023. Picture: Xinhua / Wang Guansen
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 dissented.
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 modernisation.
Xinhua