Sielewi

[Doc oga]

My curiosity on Fuerte de jesùs has led me to old railway line from Mombasa to Kisumu supposedly built by the British in a record 5 years from 1896 - 1901.
Kama ya Uhuru/mchina took 3 years from Mombasa to Nairobi despite the major advancements in technology in all areas transportation, manufacturing and building, je Nini ilifanya ya Beberu kukamilika haraka hivo despite it being longer?

 

[emali]

despite it being longer?

slave/native labour

 

[Doc oga]

slave/native labour

With axes, sururu and hammers? Mapping, Cutting down trees, filling trenches, levelling, and building bridges?
If slave labor can do that, then the remaining SGR section ipewe watu wa Kamiti na Kodiaga.

 

[Mwalimu-G]

f slave labor can do that, then the remaining SGR section ipewe watu wa Kamiti na Kodiaga.

There are international conventions governing the use of prisoner labour.

 

[kijanamrefu]

With axes, sururu and hammers? Mapping, Cutting down trees, filling trenches, levelling, and building bridges?
If slave labor can do that, then the remaining SGR section ipewe watu wa Kamiti na Kodiaga.

You'd be surprised. Another example, in WW1, over 10m Africans died in EA, but mostly as porters/slaves/workers and rarely on the battlefield.

 

[Doc oga]

There are international conventions governing the use of prisoner labour.

But you get my point, is as if it existed before but needed to be redug and repaired.

You'd be surprised. Another example, in WW1, over 10m Africans died in EA, but mostly as porters/slaves/workers and rarely on the battlefield.

Or maybe extermination and exiles or rather forceful migration of people to fit the current narrative. All these deaths and disappearances and sudden technology happened all over the globe in the 1890s such as the empty Cities in Europe, Russia and the Americas.
But Hii ya Reli Bado sijatosheka mostly on the logistics ya chuma from England or India to Kenya.

 

[kijanamrefu]

But you get my point, is as if it existed before but needed to be redug and repaired.

Or maybe extermination and exiles or rather forceful migration of people to fit the current narrative. All these deaths and disappearances and sudden technology happened all over the globe in the 1890s such as the empty Cities in Europe, Russia and the Americas.
But Hii ya Reli Bado sijatosheka mostly on the logistics ya chuma from England or India to Kenya.

Oh, don't get me wrong. Those African were forced to work through violent means, hawakuwa na employees rights union.

 

[The.Black.Templar]

Kama ya Uhuru/mchina took 3 years from Mombasa to Nairobi despite the major advancements in technology in all areas transportation, manufacturing and building,

there were also major advancements in Corruption, there was 10% in everything from the top to the bottom

 

[Anglututu]

There's really no reason apart from intention.
See the British intention was to build the rail to be able to move goods to the port, which was really critical.
In our Era, I'm really not sure what the actual intentions of building the sgr were.
They say, to ease road traffic, agreed, but why spend so much money on it and also steal from it?
It beats the purpose of the investment.