OII | Broadband may be East Africa’s 21st century railway to the world

Published on
17 Nov 2014

Similarities and differences in the hopes, expectations and fears surrounding the advent of the Uganda Railway in 1903 and the introduction of the internet to Africa in 2009 have been compared.

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