Kenya's railway evolution over a century: A tale of awakening and development

"It is not uncommon for a country to create a railway, but it is uncommon for a railway to create a country," Sir Charles Eliot, then commissioner of British East Africa, made the bold statement in 1903.

Eliot, "who initiated the policy of white supremacy in the British East Africa Protectorate (now Kenya)," was referring to the meter gauge railway built by British colonialists in East Africa between 1896 and 1901...