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It’s no Lunatic Express but SGR will open up a new historical epoch

Standard Gauge Railway. (Photo: Edward Kiplomo/Standard)

In his 1971 book The Lunatic Express: An Entertainment in Imperialism, Charles Miller pondered over the Uganda Railway and the pitfalls that befell its construction. Some challenges were policy based with some legislators in Britain doubting whether the undertaking was really worth it.

Others had a lot to do with conflicts of worldviews giving rise to, mythical inferences of Africa seers and prophets whose incantations had predicted the coming of a metallic serpent.

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