The workers who participated in these railway projects, both Chinese and African, keep objects and photographs to remember an important event in their lives.  They also tell stories, in the form of oral histories, poems, books and blog entries.  They sing songs and have commemorative events to remember the honor of their youthful service.  They visit cemeteries and other sites to commemorate those who died in construction.  These African and Chinese workers often keep the same photographs, thus the objects of memory themselves, just like the workers and the machines and rails, have travelled between China and Africa. 

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