Dear EAC Chair, is there reason we can’t connect the bloc by rail?
In East Africa, we are in a much better position to develop transport infrastructure than the US was 160 years ago, when they started on the east–west rail connection. ILLUSTRATION | JOSEPH NYAGAH | NMG
If the East African Community Chairperson gives a State of the Union address, some of us haven’t followed it. The Arusha comms team should alert the 300 million citizens to tune into their local radio station and listen.
Remember, each of our small phones is a radio receiver, and simultaneous translation isn’t so hard!