Across Africa, British colonialists romanticized the railway — whose deadly construction they oversaw through indentured Indian and African labor — with adventure narratives across " exotic" lands.

在非洲各地，英国殖民主义者通过在“异国”土地上的冒险故事，将这条铁路浪漫化了——他们利用印度和非洲的契约劳工，监督铁路夺命般的建设。