Wait friend, the bold one. A white elephant milk factory? You mean milk from elephant? This is the first time I hear it. That's interesting
... white elephant -- metaphore... definitely not ok for milking
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Just like I heard about some north american drink called Egg nogg. A friend visiting from US made a remark, given mad cow disease is going on, we will soon have ostrich milk. ehmmm.... well the entire gathering went quiet.... he was gently reminded ostrich is a bird... sorry had to put this in.
I've got a question, will the tribes be forced to assimilate into the new system to gain protection?
What tribes being forced to assimilate and where?
Just the railway alone is probably the single largest project on the african continent outside the mammoth upgrading of the railways in South Africa.
East African Railway Master Plan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Djibouti: Construction Completed on Latest Link in East African Rail Network
This is Tazara below (Tanzania Zambia Railways). i traveled from Kapiri Mposhi to Dar and back. Just breathtaking scenary across Tanzania. If you are a train enthusiast, this is a must do journey.
Home - TAZARA
ok I removed it. Bad picture link on a different website.
I wasn't even planning on posting pics of it. I was pasting pics of lesser known countries that some people think were still carrying spears and not wearing shoes until the Chinese came.
That is a true false image. Many people in my travels asked if we had running water and we had elephants near our homes
. It is true near my home we have giraffes, lots of antelope, kudu, leopards etc but it is a rural area and primarily an industrial agricultural region with lots of cattle.
In the past 20 years, we started to see slow investments and with Chinese demand for raw materials, we saw a major push into the continent and a tipping point was reached.
If you travel to the continent, major chains etc are all South Africans vs any European/north americans. Just take fried chicken, KFC/McD... no ways, you will find Chicken Liken which is far better hands down and spicy to local tastes. Similar Nandos spread across the world.
As a late friend said, we know how to do business in this continent - when western countries operate they want cash transfers, we are flexible and barter with raw materials instead.. This is exactly the approach Chinese took. You know the impact when on C-band satellite dish, you can receive free CCTV1/2/3/4 etc as well as Radio China broadcasting to this region for a huge population now settling in this region.