In 2019, Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta was at pains trying to defend accusations that the country had built a standard gauge railway (SGR) to ‘nowhere.’ This was during the commissioning of phase 2A of the SGR project that abruptly terminates in the thorny shrubs of Naivasha, some 120km from the capital Nairobi. To the Kenyan leader, those critical to the project were…












