Feature: Kenya’s railway evolution over a century: A tale of awakening and development Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2024-01-29 20:18:45 NAIROBI, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) — “It is not uncommon for a country to create a railway, but it is uncommon for a railway to create a country,” Sir Charles Eliot, then commissioner of British East Africa, made the bold statement in 1903. Eliot, “who initiated the policy of white supremacy in the British East Africa Protectorate (now Kenya),” according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica website, was referring to the meter gauge railway built by British colonialists in East Africa between 1896 and...

Xi Focus-Profile: Xi Jinping, man of culture Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2024-02-01 20:54:15 Xi Jinping attends the opening ceremony of the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation and delivers a keynote speech titled “Building an Open, Inclusive and Interconnected World For Common Development” at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 18, 2023. (Xinhua/Wang Ye) BEIJING, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) — Since the introduction of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture in October 2023, “culture” has become a buzzword throughout China. Ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year, the country has been busy organizing various...

Kenya’s railway evolution over a century: A tale of awakening and development Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2024-01-29 17:30:32 To tighten control over the “British East Africa,” the British government decided to lay a rail to control the entire Nile River basin originating from Lake Victoria. With the construction of Kenya Railways, the local tribes were subjected to savage looting, killing and colonial enslavement thereafter. Produced by Xinhua Global Service■ You may like Dragon-themed cultural products drive sales surge across China Space-themed tourism takes off in Gobi Desert More from GLOBALink GLOBALink | Chinese national flag raised in Nauru after nearly...