New Lines Magazine published on 19 June 2025 an article titled "The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Tracks the History of the Cold War" by Kang-Chun Cheng.
This is the account by a foreigner who made the trip on the Tanzania Zambia Railway from Dar es Salaam to New Kapiri Mposhi, a couple of hours outside Lusaka, Zambia. China financed and built the 1,150-mile-long railway during the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s. During the Cold War, it was China's largest foreign aid project in Africa.
