English subtitles available (click CC).
In 2018, I travelled solo on the classic Cape Town to Cairo route using trains as much as possible. Along the way I interviewed people on each train on subjects ranging from crossborder trade to the historic context of this train route.
As of 2023, postcovid, there are no longdistance passenger trains running in South Africa and Zimbabwe, nor in Botswana and Namibia. And, Sudan is in a state of war, so the Cape to Cairo by train route is not currently feasible.
Read about all my African travels in my book, "African Traveller: Twenty years of adventures as a documentary filmmaker" https://a.co/d/cXeq1vK