History of Uganda Railway

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History of Uganda Railway

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History of Uganda Railway
Mogo wa’Kebiro, a Gikuyu medicine man, once prophesied that colonialists would one day bring an iron snake with as many legs as monyongoro (centipede), and that this iron snake would spit fire and would stretch from the big water in the east to another big water in the west of the Gikuyu country...
I've e-mailed the journalist to point out his error in saying that the gauge is 3' 6" when in fact it is metre gauge.

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