Transafrican highway pre-feasibility study

Abstract

The concept of a Transafrican Highway is a dramatic and immediately appealing one - and for that reason it should he studied cautiously. In planning such a project one could adopt different points of view ranging between two extremes: that of the visionary who wishes to link Africa together and sees the highway as a means to a political or an ideological end, and that of the accountant who insists that the pursuit of the greatest possible rate of return on capital invested is the highest human virtue and who cannot accent the value of any benefit in money terms.