A broken pipe is the only remnant of a road built during colonial times in Kenya. This literal “ruin of empire” lies on the route of the LAPSSET corridor.
Theo Aalders
Infrastructure projects are an enticing promise for a better future – but they can also evoke a violent colonial past.
A container ship docks at the Lamu Port in Kenya.
Dihoff Mukoto/AFP via Getty Images
Mega infrastructure projects entrench existing inequalities when they ignore the economic realities of vulnerable groups.
The first container ship to dock in the new Lamu Port.
Official image from LAPSSET
The Lamu port is part of an ambitious transport corridor with the aim of integrating marginalised northern Kenya into the Kenyan economy and the nation.