With all the recent chatter about the Benguela Railway, including in this Economist article, I thought I’d share an extract about its original construction which reads like something out of a Mad Max movie. Source: Adventures in Africa by J.B. Thornhill (1915)
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2024/11/28/america-under-joe-biden-plays-the-pragmatist-in-africa