ABSTRACT
Undoubtedly the most important aviation development in prospect for East Africa arises from the fact that the British route to South Africa must pass through, not one, but all three of the territories people are dealing with. A glance at the map of Africa is sufficient to show that the valley of the Nile, if not the only feasible route to Central Africa, is without doubt the most practicable. Without doubt one of the richest territories in Africa, the Belgian Congo, cannot fail to be an important factor in the development of air communications in Africa. It is inevitable that the aerial activities of the Belgian Congo must be co-ordinated with British development in East Africa. Throughout the Report of the Closer Union Commission it is stressed that quicker and better communications are needed to facilitate that so much desired and so much abhorred, yet inevitable, closer union.
