In the same year, a much-acclaimed documentary "The Permanent Way" captured the extent of the railway's significance to the East African economy. Then that fiery monster, politics, intervened, and in 1977 Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda dissolved the EAC after many fights. As happened with East African Airways, every country grabbed and ran away with the pieces that were in its territory. They formed the Kenya Railways Corporation, the Tanzania Railways Corporation, and the Uganda Railways Corporation. A few years later, the great Kenyan-born British crooner Roger Whittaker sang an homage to the railway titled “The Good Old EAR&H”.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 16, 2024 19:43 UTC