Question

J.P. Daughton’s book In The Forest of No Joy studies one of these projects that, (20[1])along with rubber harvesting, triggered the War of the Hoe Handle. One of these projects from the 1970s was an early foreign investment by the PRC and is called (0[1])TAZARA. The CGR (0[1])managed these (0[1])projects prior to the formation of the SAR using the “Cape” standard. (0[1])Portugal’s (20[1])“Pink Map” (0[1])created (20[1]0[1])problems for one of these (0[2])projects (20[1]0[2])proposed by (20[1])the founder of (*) De Beers. (10[3]0[5])A political (0[2])cartoon in (10[1])Punch (10[1])of a man holding a telegraph (0[1])line while standing (10[1])across (10[1])Africa (0[1])symbolized (10[1])Cecil Rhodes’s (10[1])vision of building one of these (10[1])projects across Africa. (10[1])For 10 points, Rhodes planned to link Cape Town to Cairo with what (10[1])type of transportation (10[1])infrastructure? (10[4])■END■ (10[12]0[1])

ANSWER: African railroad [accept equivalents like railway; accept train network; accept Cape to Cairo railroad; prompt on transportation project; reject “road”]
<Lalit Maharjan, History - Cross, Historiography, and Miscellaneous&gt; ~24944~ &lt;Editor: Michael Bentley>
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