However, East Africa's growth rate was already considered very rapid. After entering the twentieth century, East Africa's annual urbanization progress surpassed that of the other great powers. Apart from Japan, every other great power had accumulated industrial strength for nearly a century before reaching its later level.
Take Germany, for instance. Germany began industrializing around the middle of the nineteenth century, but that did not mean it had lacked an industrial foundation beforehand. Even among the great powers, Germany had industrialized relatively late. East Africa's industrialization campaign did not officially begin until the First Five-Year Plan.
Of course, this so-called "industrialization" was certainly not the small-scale sort. It referred to a large-scale industrialization process across the whole of society. After all, buying two machines, hiring a few workers, and registering a factory could also be considered industrial development. If the standards were lowered, East African industrialization could even be traced back to the sisal factories of the colonial era.
First Town.
Sweat Palace had now become the central exhibition hall of the World Expo. Most of the palace had been opened to house exhibits from companies of various countries.
Karls, the Second Prince of East Africa, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech, declaring the East Africa World Expo officially open. He did not make a long-winded speech that would spoil everyone's interest.
There was no great issue with keeping the formalities simple. After all, the theme and highlights of a World Expo were the new things displayed there and the products of different countries.
Aside from East Africa, the host, nearly all the other participants in this East Africa World Expo came from industrially backward countries and regions, or from colonies.
After all, the Panama World Expo in the United States was also underway at this time.