Kenya and the richness of its 44 communities. China takes on mammoth task of rebuilding ‘lunatic line’

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Republic of Kenya Jamhuri ya Kenya (Swahili)
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: "Harambee" (Swahili) "Let us all pull together"
Anthem: "Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu" (English: "O God of all creation") MENU 0:00
Location of Kenya (dark blue) in the African Union (light blue)
Capital and largest city	Nairobi 1°16′S 36°48′E
Official languages	English Swahili[1]
National language	Swahili[1]
Ethnic groups  (2018[2])	22% Kikuyu 14% Luhya 13% Luo 12% Kalenjin 11% Kamba 6% Kisii 6% Meru 15% other African 1% non-African
Demonym(s)	Kenyan
Government	Unitary presidential constitutional republic
• President	Uhuru Kenyatta
• Deputy President	William Ruto
• Speaker of the Senate	Kenneth Lusaka
• Speaker of the National Assembly	Justin Muturi
• Chief Justice	David Maraga
• Attorney General	Paul Kihara Kariuki
Legislature	Parliament
• Upper house	Senate
• Lower house	National Assembly
Independence
• from the United Kingdom	12 December 1963
• Republic declared	12 December 1964
Area
• Total	580,367 km2 (224,081 sq mi)[3][4] (48th)
• Water (%)	2.3
Population
• 2019 estimate	49,364,325[5] (28th)
• 2009 census	38,610,097[6]
• Density	78/km2 (202.0/sq mi) (124th)
GDP (PPP)	2019 estimate
• Total	$190.182 billion[7]
• Per capita	$3,868 [8]
GDP (nominal)	2019 estimate
• Total	$99.246 billion [8]
• Per capita	$2,010 [8]
Gini (2014)	42.5[9] medium · 48th
HDI (2017)	0.590[10] medium · 142nd
Currency	Kenyan shilling (KES)
Time zone	UTC+3 (EAT)
Date format	dd/mm/yy (AD)
Driving side	left
Calling code	+254
ISO 3166 code	KE
Internet TLD	.ke
[2] According to the CIA, estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of mortality because of AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex, than would otherwise be expected.

非洲的鐵路，一向被人民用來作為抗議的對象。烏干達鐵路在維多利亞時代素有「瘋狂鐵路線」（the Lunatic Line）的暱稱，因為該線建設成本不斷加碼，再加上鐵道員工遭到獅群攻擊，導致誤點嚴重。興建肯亞鐵路線的工人在 1910 年發動了該國首度的罷工事件，一千名工人延著鐵道步行到奈洛比抗議薪水太少。


China takes on mammoth task of rebuilding ‘lunatic line’

Uganda Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Uganda Railway, colloquially known as the Lunatic Express or the Lunatic Line, is a railway system and former railway company dating to the colonial ...

More than 2,000 lives were lost during the construction of the narrow gauge railway, which still carves a path through modern day Kenya
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Jerome Starkey Nairobi
Last updated at 12:01AM, November 29 2013



When British imperialists with dreams of linking the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa to the source of the Nile in Uganda began forging a railway inland from the coast, its spiralling costs and staggering human toll soon led critics to call it the “lunatic line.”

Building the 600 miles of narrow gauge railway, which still carves a path through modern day Kenya, claimed more than 2,000 lives between 1895 and 1901 as legions of indentured labourers grappled with malarial swamps and man-eating lions at the height of Europe’s scramble for Africa.

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