Intriguingly, the Chinese have often revivified old British colonial infrastructures.
China might not be the model partner for Africa based on its human rights record and transparency, but the Chinese are doing something tangible in Mozambique, Tanzania, and Ethiopia, for example, by building health centres and innovating old colonial infrastructures.
Is this really a more likely scenario than the colonial infrastructure in the occupied territories being dismantled?
Taking the long view, private investors are transforming Nairobi's skyscape, while holes in the city's moth-eaten colonial infrastructure yawn ever wider.
Now at peace with its main rival, English attention shifted from preying on other nations' colonial infrastructures to the business of establishing its own overseas colonies.
Although the Tabwa produced much food for cities of the Copperbelt during colonial times, the infrastructure of roads, depots, and lake shipping eroded during the 1970s, and their area has become a backwater.
Adopting from Haiti wasn't a practical decision: we knew it was going to take twice as long to get a child from Haiti as from, say, Ethiopia Haitii's highly bureaucratic legal system (a legacy of its French colonial history), its undeveloped infrastructure (some government officials still work on typewriters), and its recurring political and natural crises all slowed things down.
Prior to Sudan's independence in 1956, the British colonial administration had little educational infrastructure established in the southern Sudan, and Christian missionaries assumed responsibility for formal education there.
Completed colonial expansions lead to strengthened internal infrastructure, the great roadways, the arteries of our nation, and it needed to be explored.
Production centred on enriching the chiefs, wooing of foreign investment, and the apparatus of colonial administration, and building only that infrastructure that would aid in the transport and export of cash crops.
The current water supply infrastructures were first developed by colonial government in 1911 and mostly focused where the elites lived (Salama 1979).
