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‘Lunatic Line’ that helped create a country

By Kiundu Waweru

President Kibaki’s promise on Tuesday that the railway infrastructure is to be upgraded to modern standards echoed the excitement expressed by a colonial administrator in 1903 when the railway reached Kisumu.

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