https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/24/london-youngest-black-cab-driver-taxi-bahrain-mujagata

'To qualify as a black-cab driver, candidates must learn London’s network of roughly 25,000 streets alongside thousands of landmarks, stations, hotels, theatres, hospitals and public buildings. They are tested through a series of oral examinations in which examiners can ask for the shortest legal route between any two points in the capital, taking account of one-way systems, restrictions and banned turns.

Mujagata did it while studying for A-levels, applying to university and adjusting to life in Britain after moving from Uganda four years ago.

A large map of London covered one wall of his bedroom. He would wake at 4am to practise routes on a moped before traffic built up, revise during breaks in college, and sometimes wake in the middle of the night to study. “I didn’t sleep properly for two or three years,” he says.'

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