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Today the Tazara is a talisman of faded hopes and failed economic schemes, an old and unreliable railway with too few working locomotives.
The Next Empire 2010
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Today the Tazara is a talisman of faded hopes and failed economic schemes, an old and unreliable railway with too few working locomotives.
The Next Empire 2010
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Today the Tazara is a talisman of faded hopes and failed economic schemes, an old and unreliable railway with too few working locomotives.
The Next Empire 2010
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The railroad — known as the Tazara line — was built by China in the early 1970s, at a cost of nearly $500 million, an extraordinary expenditure in the thick of the Cultural Revolution, and a symbol of Beijing’s determination to hold its own with Washington and Moscow in an era when Cold War competition over Africa raged fierce.
The Next Empire 2010
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The railroad — known as the Tazara line — was built by China in the early 1970s, at a cost of nearly $500 million, an extraordinary expenditure in the thick of the Cultural Revolution, and a symbol of Beijing’s determination to hold its own with Washington and Moscow in an era when Cold War competition over Africa raged fierce.
The Next Empire 2010
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The railroad — known as the Tazara line — was built by China in the early 1970s, at a cost of nearly $500 million, an extraordinary expenditure in the thick of the Cultural Revolution, and a symbol of Beijing’s determination to hold its own with Washington and Moscow in an era when Cold War competition over Africa raged fierce.
The Next Empire 2010
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China will not turn these railways over to African governments, as it did with the Tazara.
The Next Empire 2010
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As an example of top-down, state-driven development, the Tazara had also come up short.
The Next Empire 2010
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Such were the dreams for Tazara, too, I thought, remembering the depressing little market in Kapiri Mposhi.
The Next Empire 2010
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African Railway, BBC2, Friday, 9pm: Sean Langan rides east on Africa's Tazara railroad.
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