Sitting at the heart of Nairobi's central business district, the Nairobi Railway Museum could be considered as one of Kenya's best gems hidden in plain sight.
David Hyde examines a pivotal working-class struggle which erupted within East Africa’s transport system near the end of the colonial period. Though this was arguably the most important working-class struggle to occur during the decolonisation process within Britain’s African colonies, it has been rarely acknowledged and barely attended to.
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Rift Valley Railways, the rail operator tasked by Uganda and Kenya and presently running the narrow-gauge railway system in both countries, from the port of Mombasa via Nairobi to the Ugandan border and on to Kampala, besides a refurbished side route to the Northern Ugandan town of Gulu, has made substantial progress in recent years.
A period of intense shareholder troubles, initially spurred by South Africa’s Sheltam which started the company, eventually led to a near complete takeover by Egypt’s Qalaa Holdings, previously known as Citadel, which now holds 85 percent of the shares after Kenya’s TransCentury sold their shares to them.