In the UK there is an old joke. A man driving a car is lost and he stopped to ask directions of a local man leaning on a gate. The man leaning on the gate thought for a very long time and then said "You know. If I wanted to go there I wouldn't start from here." The railways of sub-saharan Africa are rather like that. It's all about the criteria which one starts with. When the British came to Kenya there were no roads and no railway and aeroplanes had not yet been invented. So they started with the "given" that is Mombasa which was the existing port. Starting at Mombasa, the railway had to get...
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