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Exactly. We'll see the return on investment after the completion of this new city.

😅😂😅 Delusional

Good development. Thank you for sharing.

Interesting 🎉. I think that the Return on investment will be measure severals year after the completion of the project.

I hope that the project will flourish very soon.❤

Very interesting! The city for rich people right!

TI hope that the project will flourish 🎉.

Not yet!

Exactly

Yes

How about Abuja? It looks a pretty successfully planned city. I think Diamniadio will ultimately be a successful project too. It might just be a little bit slow to fully be completed. Just like Kilamba in Angola. I think new planned cities are necessary in most African countries. Old cities are often unrepairable and may be costly with very poor end results. Most current African cities were just colonial settlements with no or just basic planning. Where master plan existed, they were never properly followed, implemented or regularly updated. Vision city in Rwanda is not a city by the way. It’s just a gated community in Kigali. Also please be serious, Akon City was never a thing. It was just Akon bragging and fooling naive people.

Thank you for divinding the video in keys elements!🙃😉

Great!

Thanks for watching!

Yeah!

Thank you so much!

Where's Akon city ?

Diamniadio is in construction, right!

Akon city is an illusion!

Exactly 💯

Thank you.

Seriously? These cities didn't exist at all?🤔

Great

Glad you think so!

👍🏻

👍🏻 Great

How is France the problem? What colonies? How does ecowas function if language is the problem? Stop talking about things you don’t know.

@k-jd5046 😅 idk? No, you don't know. See France still owns colonies in Africa, the worst thing is instead of an exchange where they take the best and brightest, teach them so they can go back and teach the rest of their country, they take resources and money. 50% of any money made in countries like Benin, Togo, Ivory Coast, Niger, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mali, etc is paid to the French government. For what? I don't know! Then, when a leader doesn't want to pay it, the French government set up a coo and place a leader that will do what they want. If you look up CFA franc in Africa, or the burden on French African colonies, you should find more. Language is always problematic, the commonality between the Japanese and the usa city train links is Language, when everyone speaks the same language, everything is seamless, but these 5 countries have anywhere between 10 and 30+ languages. Yeah, please use the internet for its intended purpose, to increase knowledge, if you just look for disagreements, you'll be embarrassed.

@ are you from a former French colony in west Africa? I highly doubt it and it’s obvious by just reading you that you have zero knowledge of our situations. You should provide evidence to back up your statements regarding them taking natural resources and money. 1. You are incorrect, these countries do not pay 50% of their revenue to the French government because it just doesn’t make sense; there is no tractability whatsoever to prove that it happens. You’re certainly referring to the former monetary of CFA Franc which required them to deposit 50% of their foreign reserves in an account at the Bank of France which has been closed since 2018. All the reserves of the 8 west African countries are located at the central bank in Dakar. As of today, France only plays a minor role which is guaranteeing and printing the currency. The CFA has been pegged to the Euro in order to prevent hyper inflation and to stabilize the currency. Is it perfect? No! Should we maybe peg it to other currencies such as the Chinese yuan? Yes it’s a possibility which could be explored. But as of today it works in comparison to other currencies in the region. 2. You mentioned how leaders get a coup every time one refuses to pay. Once again do you have any evidence at all? Can you also give an example of when that ever happened?? 3. You mentioned language, we are communicating in English which is not an African language so how is us speaking French any different? How can we all speak the same language when in my country (Côte d’Ivoire/Ivory Coast), there are 60 different languages? You are once again incorrect, these countries are highly diverse and together contain at least 200 languages & dialects. The only way they communicate is through a Lingua-Franca which comes at the expense of some cultural elements eradication. You can not compare the US or Japan to 8 countries in west Africa given that they have a very different sociopolitical history because that’s just not how it works. Japan is more homogeneous and has been a coherent society for centuries. The US despite having some sort of diversity is no where close to the ones you find inside that region. You seem to have almost NO knowledge of what you are talking about and it’s sad that you mentioned the internet while you make zero good use of it. On the internet, there is a lot of information, up to you differentiate right from wrong. I hope you will answer me with concrete arguments rather than just speculations and things "you heard or saw in a video". I am patiently waiting 😃.

Great!

Seriously? Wich part of the video?

Ghana is doing the same

What's it?

Exactly. There are so many oppportunies!

If America doesn't invest in Africa, it's America who loses, not Africa. China would invest more than America and Europe. China's investment is visible almost the whole continent.

China, Russia and others will do the investment. Then Americans and Europeans will cry about Africans loving Russians and Chinese more than them...

Nobody cares abt America, it’s already falling, countries are now interested in Brics, Africa is developing without America

Seriously?

Exactly, the video is good!

Did you watch the middle of this video?

@@LucieBarbara-vt4lq Unfortunately, yes. And I read your comment also. Can my time be returned to me? What in the video is evidence of an economic strategy for development other than that trying to meet basic needs of a population explosion?

@@stevensmith2078 Without saying otherwise, it's true that the video says quite a lot, especially about the population explosion, but it also says that these states are developing major strategic infrastructure projects to meet the future needs of this rapidly expanding economic zone, which brings together the economic hubs of nearly five countries. In terms of strategy, the video talks about the blockade of cooperation between the states and, above all, about the obstacles posed by the currency used by these states, and that it would be better for them to strengthen their internal cooperation and find an alternative currency. What makes China and India so strong today, beyond their technical and economic prowess, is their human capital. Vieo takes examples from the development of other economic corridors, such as Tokyo and the USA, which are almost identical to this African zone. That's my humble opinion, although the video insists on the demographic fact and the currency, which in my opinion is not truncated. Of course, there are other subjects to tackle, but this is already a first step in my opinion.

@@LucieBarbara-vt4lq The Japanese, Italians, and even the Filipinos, after the receipt of American money for aid and development following WWII, would transform their respective economies, societies, and cities within 2-3 decades, some fundamentally altering markets and local/global economies (e.g., Japan/Italy in the 1970s and 1980s or the Filipinos in the early 00s). What baffles me about Africa, or at least the majority of it, is that no matter how much money is invested there, the most they can do is get China to build a project that everyone knows the country cannot afford to repay, and will be repossessed by the lender. There has been no fundamental economic or societal change in the majority of Africa for the better part of a century, if not longer, with the exception of foreign introduced technologies and governance systems. The sudden influx of foreign investment I think is merely a sign of the value for one’s dollar one can get in Africa, due to incredibly cheap labor and overhead costs, and the relative cheapness with which one can circumvent laws and standard practices in most of Africa.

The video is just about how a megalopolis is going to be in africa and here you are criticizing. You don’t want good things for africa. You get off on talking down about africa. What your talking about is a different topic then even the video

Avez-vous suivis le milieu de cette vidéo ?

Sérieusement? Avez-vous regardé toute la vidéo?

@@MimiLomba-b8c Oui je suis maso je vais jusqu'au bout quand un sujet me concerne. J'ai voyagé plusieurs fois à la fin des années 80 en Cote d'Ivoire, Togo, Bénin et les dégâts étaient déjà bien avances :-) Mais il suffit de lire/ "By 2100, Africa will be home to 40% of the world's population, with particularly rapid demographic growth in sub-Saharan Africa, especially along the Abidjan-Lagos axis, a 600 miles stretch of rapidly expanding urban land. This area could become a megalopolis similar to New York and the Tokyo-Ossaka corridor, playing a key role in future global urbanization." Tout cela dégouline de mauvaise fois: 1° la Côte Nord du Golfe de Guinée n'a pas plus le droit de se bombarder "Afrique" que les USA de monopoliser le terme "Amérique" les deux y étant très déficitaires en population. L'Afrique du sud et ses voisins, Le bassin du COngo, l'Ethiopie, Djibouti et le Somaliland, mais aussi L'Egypte, le Maroc voire même la Mauritanie et le Sénégal ont tous les droits a un avenir "africain" 2° hormis le NIgeria les productions minières côtiêres de la zone sont très restreintes 3° la Côte a été dévastée depuis 70ans (remplacement de la forêt primaire par des cultures de rente) amplifiée par l'utilisation des marigots périphériques des villes en décharges sauvages de soit-disant "centres de recyclage" 4° s'y ajoute le risque climatique et il faut être totalement givré pour prévoir une véritable LGV (c'est à dire autre chose qu'un coup de stabilo sur des voies datant de plus de 120 ans parfois) sachant que toutes ces zones urbaines sont au ras de l'eau voire marécageuses et que les perspectives de hausse du niveau sont de 1,7m voire 7 m si la banquise du Groenland glisse à la mer (il suffit d'un gros séisme et même si elle met ensuite 50 ans à fondre la hausse du niveau sera instantanée en fonction du volume de blocs flottants). Bref cela relève d'une proposition commerciale habituelle où on essaie de créer la demande avant de créer l'objet et si les "investisseurs étrangers" doivent être attirés c'est bien que la zone est tout sauf attirante (pauvreté voire misère, insécurité) ce qui n'est d'ailleurs pas un problème africain. Effectivement le gros problème de l'afrique a toujours été ses gouvernements, seul le Maroc parmi les pays "intéressants à l'époque") ayant su présenter aux tentatives de colonisations une diplomatie habile soutenue par une monarchie "avec qui on pouvait faire affaire" plutôt que d'insister dans des guerres dont le résultat ne pouvait faire de doute vu la différence technologique. De toute manière, le peuple n'avait pas son mot à dire et c'est la colonisation avec la chrétienté et l'école laïque qui a permis l'émergence des luttes anticoloniales mais aussi l'arrivée de la démocratie représentative

Great! You're right!

Maybe!

Nice

Great!

Nice!