Dec 6, 2014

Construction of Railways in East Africa

Dangerous: Construction began in Mombasa in 1895. Work was hampered by storms, strikes, local hostility, disease and lion attacks. Some 2,500 workers, many of them labourers imported from India, as they toiled in the heat to meet their imperial masters' ambitious timetable
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