Why There Isn't A Bridge Between the Congos

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  • @KhAnubis
    @KhAnubis  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

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  • @canuckguy0313
    @canuckguy0313 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +152

    The Pulitzer Prize for Journalism *has* to go to whoever wrote the headline "Congo-Congo Congo crossing connection construction" at 7:50. That headline, especially the first three words, are *chef's kiss*

  • @johnobrien8773
    @johnobrien8773 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +186

    I'm still stuck on Kinshasa having a population of over 17 million. I knew there were megacities I didn't know anything about but not in the Congo.

    • @KhAnubis
      @KhAnubis  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +82

      The largest French-speaking city in the world (depending on who you ask), and yet I could barely find two dozen different video clips across two different stock footage websites-- don't even get me started on how hard it was to find assets relating to Brazzaville

    • @bigbootros4362
      @bigbootros4362 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Meh it's a bit of internet stretch to say it's french speaking. Many many poor people can't speak french. It's like rural India or rural Kenya where many can't speak English yet the statistics said they do.
      In Kinshasa the educated and middle class speak french. The poor struggle with it. And there is many of them.

    • @zainmudassir2964
      @zainmudassir2964 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      ​@@bigbootros4362 many can somewhat understand English like reading Billboards but most definitely can't speak with fluency. Same with Pakistan

    • @micha2909
      @micha2909 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@KhAnubisIt's the internet age and still there is no platform where you can hire a local in an under-filmed location to do some filming for you. Why?

    • @Rat_8868
      @Rat_8868 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@micha2909bro what?

  • @walli6388
    @walli6388 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +92

    My tip: Most countries with the same name hate eachother.

    • @Stephen_Ahweera
      @Stephen_Ahweera 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just like the Koreas

    • @Bhq870
      @Bhq870 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Stephen_Ahweera Sudan and South Sudan

  • @SimonWad
    @SimonWad 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    I was terrible at geography and history at school - and have been a career scientist for the past 30 years. But my gosh I love your videos.

  • @aleksandarvil5718
    @aleksandarvil5718 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    0:06 Vienna, Budapest, Bratislava :
    *"ARE WE A JOKE TO YOU?!?"*

  • @LegendNinja41
    @LegendNinja41 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

    Who was here before the Thumbnail was changed to ''No Bridges?'' from ''No Bitches?''
    KhAnubis you're WILD 🤣

    • @KhAnubis
      @KhAnubis  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      The original text was always "no bridges" but I'll take it

    • @gurvb
      @gurvb 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@KhAnubishi

  • @SisterSunny
    @SisterSunny 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +99

    Great video! I really hope the trans-African highway includes railway throughout, locking Africa into car dependency in the 21st century is a death wish for everyone 😭

    • @Rynewulf
      @Rynewulf 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Its been a terrible move everywhere its been tried

    • @KhAnubis
      @KhAnubis  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      I fully agree with you there, but there's a difference between building highways where there are already plenty of roadways, versus building a highway where there aren't many good paved roads at all

    • @FlagAnthem
      @FlagAnthem 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      not everybody wants to live in a hive

    • @pacificdream5152
      @pacificdream5152 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      If the highway is completed it will be a success as many countries in Africa aren't interconnected and are mostly connected to ports. This is worse for landlocked countries. A highway will boost the economy of many African countries as it will increase trade and stimulate growth. Personally, I would prefer trains but they are so expensive to construct, run and maintain compared to roads.

    • @squeaksquawk4255
      @squeaksquawk4255 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@FlagAnthem And no-one is making anyone live in a hive, whatever that's supposed to mean. I don't see why building a road & rail highway is supposed to be worse than just a road highway, especially considering freight rail

  • @hbowman108
    @hbowman108 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Mobutu did not die in office. He was overthrown in the Congo Wars a few months before he died. Before his overthrow he was widely rumored to have either cancer or AIDS.

  • @mickeybowmeister1944
    @mickeybowmeister1944 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I flew in Brazzaville in 97 from Nairobi, was originally going to travel through Zaire but country imploded that year. Trucked it up to Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Mail, Senegal, Mauritania, Western Sahara and finishing in Morocco. The Congo is a beast of a river.

  • @gj1234567899999
    @gj1234567899999 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Being able to take a road trip from South Africa to Morocco or Egypt would be epic.

  • @מ.מ-ה9ד
    @מ.מ-ה9ד 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    *Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga (Joseph-Désiré Mobutu)

  • @nunyabiznes33
    @nunyabiznes33 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    How hard is to build roads across the Sahara and what do they do to prevent them getting swallowed by dunes?

    • @rianfelis3156
      @rianfelis3156 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Mostly you just try to build them on the rocky parts instead of the sandy parts. There's a lot less sand in deserts than popular media suggests.

    • @hbowman108
      @hbowman108 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's easier than plowing snow.

  • @Teliassen
    @Teliassen 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Great video as always into a topic I'd never thought about, but the second i saw the thumbnail I just had to know!

    • @tobirates916
      @tobirates916 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Best description of KhAnubis’s channel ever.

  • @boulderbash19700209
    @boulderbash19700209 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    "We won't cooperate on building the bridge if you don't invest in our port!"
    "That's Banana!"

  • @MimOzanTamamogullar
    @MimOzanTamamogullar 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Aren't Southern Nicosia and Northern Nicosia tied with Rome and Vatican as the closest capitals in the world? They're literally touching

    • @garethking1639
      @garethking1639 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Northern Cyprus is not recognized by the vast majority of countries.

  • @agusti_zainal0445
    @agusti_zainal0445 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The Capital is Bordered
    #Kinshasa-DR Congo🇨🇩
    #Brazzaville-Republic Congo🇨🇬
    #Bangui-Central Africa🇨🇫
    #Ndjamena-Chad🇹🇩
    #Lome-Togo🇹🇬
    #Porto_Novo-Benin🇧🇯
    #Masseru-Lesotho🇱🇸
    #Vientiane-Laos🇱🇦
    #Taskent-Uzbekistan🇺🇿
    #Asuncion-Paraguay🇵🇾
    #Gaborone-Botswana🇧🇼
    #Andorra_laBella🇦🇩
    #Bratislava-Slovenia🇸🇮
    #Monaco-Monaco🇲🇨
    #Rome-Italy🇮🇹
    #San_Marino-San Marino🇸🇲
    #Singapore-Singapore🇸🇬
    #Vaduz-liechtenstein🇱🇮
    #Vatican-Vatikan🇻🇦

    • @filipzucker3084
      @filipzucker3084 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Nigga bratislava is in slovakia 🇸🇰

    • @gurururuwarararara8164
      @gurururuwarararara8164 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Slovenia has Ljubljana, not Bratislava

  • @South._.American-Union
    @South._.American-Union 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I live in Bangladesh

  • @uuuuuuuu-ko8cr
    @uuuuuuuu-ko8cr 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Greetings from Egypt ❤🌹

  • @Peizxcv
    @Peizxcv 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    A port named Banana?

    • @Koala1203
      @Koala1203 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      New shipping hub in southwest Africa.
      Reaching the world from southwest Congo.
      Port of Banana

    • @aleksandarvil5718
      @aleksandarvil5718 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@Koala1203First BLACK President of Zimbabwe (mandate 1980-1987), BEFORE Robert Mugabe, was Canaan Banana !!!
      😂😂😂

  • @thechosenone5644
    @thechosenone5644 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    7:57 Congo-Congo Congo crossing crossing the Congo

  • @amehak1922
    @amehak1922 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    First comment, I call Zaire Dr Congo also, and the other Regular Congo

    • @belstar1128
      @belstar1128 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dr Congo is the one everyone knows the other one nobody knows anything about.

  • @jan10916f
    @jan10916f 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I would really love, if you got some local experts to chime into these kinda videos

  • @stresemanniteist
    @stresemanniteist 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Video begins at 5:50

    • @LosPalms
      @LosPalms 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you life saver 🛟🙏🏽

  • @JenniferinIllinois
    @JenniferinIllinois 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    So I can't drive from the capital of the Congo across the Congo to the capital of the Congo. Got it. 🤣🤣🤣

  • @HarvestStore
    @HarvestStore 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great video.

  • @512TheWolf512
    @512TheWolf512 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    businessmen definitely didn't chgange between the Congo occupation and today.

  • @isaacbakan1295
    @isaacbakan1295 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    On the other hand, the rest of Colonial Europe might want to look at other nations to make what they are doing seem less bad. Not saying your point isn't valid simultaneously

  • @Liggliluff
    @Liggliluff 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    (0:12) I can never get over how people say "culam-eaters". Do you also say "centom-eaters"?

  • @tymon5349
    @tymon5349 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    an ad that is 20% of your vid... i thought you were better than that

    • @1purapericulo
      @1purapericulo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Chillax he gotta bring home the bacon

  • @P4Tri0t420
    @P4Tri0t420 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    4:50
    Well at this Time Ruanda and Burundi were also Belgian Colonies

    • @aleksandarvil5718
      @aleksandarvil5718 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @P4Tri0t420
      NOPE, they were Colonies of Imperial Germany / Hohenzolern!2nd Reich !!!

    • @P4Tri0t420
      @P4Tri0t420 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@aleksandarvil5718 That's nonsense. Habsburg 2nd German Reich, are you even aware of what dumb you are talking about?!
      Ruanda (Rwanda) and Burundi were belgian and Germany was ruled by the Hohenzollern , du Held

    • @P4Tri0t420
      @P4Tri0t420 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Deleted bc straight bs

  • @wojtekpolska1013
    @wojtekpolska1013 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    5:44 or Napoleon

  • @Mrmidknight-yx9pg
    @Mrmidknight-yx9pg 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I now know that a city named banana exists and that makes me feel........ good

    • @kasdepar
      @kasdepar หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah it certainly has a peel 😁

  • @zainmudassir2964
    @zainmudassir2964 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Same is true for border between Pakistan and India. They should build bridges

  • @marym7104
    @marym7104 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Within 5 hours!

  • @saigonmonopoly1105
    @saigonmonopoly1105 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    yellow red blue

  • @prettypic444
    @prettypic444 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    All my homies hate king Leopold

  • @bababababababa6124
    @bababababababa6124 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +132

    Most Westerners will probably just default to the answer “they have no money”

    • @Ozzymandius1
      @Ozzymandius1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      This is the most mentally disabled take I’ve ever come across. I also feel you do not know what constitutes the “West”. The default answer most anyone would go to is difficulty.

    • @jessetorres9502
      @jessetorres9502 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Projecting much?

    • @SteppesoftheLevant
      @SteppesoftheLevant 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Or it gets looted

    • @bababababababa6124
      @bababababababa6124 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@Ozzymandius1you’re just waffling 😂😂

    • @GwainSagaFanChannel
      @GwainSagaFanChannel 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      ​@@bababababababa6124 I think most Westerners do not care what the two Congo's are up to really since they live in Europe or North America not Africa

  • @marcneef795
    @marcneef795 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Shouldn't they build railways instead of highways?

    • @FlagAnthem
      @FlagAnthem 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      both are good

    • @zainmudassir2964
      @zainmudassir2964 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Airways will be best

  • @SeverusFelix
    @SeverusFelix 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Isn't the Congo preposterously deep?

  • @SylviaRustyFae
    @SylviaRustyFae 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Some small notes on captions
    First some love; i love how you censored the coitus related F word there in the captions, which i know is necessary bcuz of how youtube treats swears in captions somehow worse than swears in videos. F(censored)ing is prty easily clear and is leagues better than [_] as autogen captions do; completely infantilisin us disabled ppl and also just removin context entirely
    What i find extra funny here tho is that you changed it from the script in your readin of it, so this is actually the first time i can think of where the captions actually include more of a swear than the vid itself.
    Ive seen autogen captions turn Fu-*ding* into [_] before but nvr the other way around heh. Its nice for the most abled of hearin folk to get a small taste of what many disabled ppl exp... Where they simply are told a slightly diff story than the rest are bein told; and an intentionally less offensive one as if to protect your virgin ears (or the disabled persons virgin eyes as the case may be)
    On that tho, the fact the captions dont line up with spoken text is always a prob bcuz it means that disabled viewers get a diff exp, and usually thats inferior. For example, a deaf viewer here wud have no idea that you made a DR Congo joke; seemingly cuz that was added after the script was written
    Theres other subtle changes like that here which i think it wud be rly nice if you were able to take a little more time and adjust the script changes based on the final edit of the vid before uploadin, at least as youre usin the script as captions
    Its grt to see captions ofc, just wantin to make sure theyre as equitably accessible as possible here
    Notably, even tho im not deaf, i rely on captions bcuz of an auditory processin disorder, and it is harder for me to follow along with a vid when the spoken words and written words dont align; tho at least here...
    Thats generally a nonissue bcuz theres a lack of bg noises distractin and makin it harder for me to parse things; but it still catches me up a bit and sometimes i have to rewind but its nowhere near as bad as it is in other cases.
    This is actually the biggest reason i stopped watchin most anime; bcuz i need to hear and read the same words or else i will miss words and lose focus and find the vid just hard to watch...
    And most anime chooses the simple route of havin dubbed eps just use the subbed captions; which i totes get why it is a nice option for someone who wants to make sure they can more fully understand the intent of a translation... It shud rly not be the only option; actual captions are a necessary thing, or else the vids are just more inaccessible and available to a smaller audience

  • @ruganzajadon2369
    @ruganzajadon2369 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My dad and mom born on Congo with a blue flag

  • @rosieroti4063
    @rosieroti4063 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Holy shit!! A transafrican highway!!??? 😨😨😨 That would be a wonder of the world... Think about it.

  • @kpaige2928
    @kpaige2928 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I will never I hear ‘Dr Congo’

  • @barraman.
    @barraman. 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Foremanescque thumbnail

  • @marym7104
    @marym7104 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    2,712 views!

  • @boulderbash19700209
    @boulderbash19700209 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's cheaper than build a wall. 😅

  • @ivorianmapper
    @ivorianmapper 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    why is everyone making videos about central african countries?

    • @sirBrouwer
      @sirBrouwer 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Because it is fascinating. For a very long time there was little coverage of the entire continent. Outside of ether Egypt in the very old history. Or just the entire contitent as some back ward place where everything was depicted as if everyone still lives like the hunter gatherers. They would show on National Geographic.
      The economic boom you now see in several places shows that there is a lot of potential. And that in it self is just wild.

    • @bababababababa6124
      @bababababababa6124 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Because why not? If you don’t want to see it then don’t watch

  • @saigonmonopoly1105
    @saigonmonopoly1105 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    belgium bavaria whom

  • @hbowman108
    @hbowman108 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No Congo across.

  • @lukecronquist6003
    @lukecronquist6003 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We wuz bridge buildrz

  • @saigonmonopoly1105
    @saigonmonopoly1105 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1 is french the other who?

  • @belstar1128
    @belstar1128 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    i am from Belgium its all my fault sorry .

  • @0dayswithoutincident934
    @0dayswithoutincident934 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I cant take the cover seriously. I accidentally read it as No Bitches?

  • @marym7104
    @marym7104 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    2,671th viewer of this video!

  • @cheeseflavoredsoda3262
    @cheeseflavoredsoda3262 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Because nobody built them.

    • @molybd3num823
      @molybd3num823 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why did nobody build them? That's the question

    • @cheeseflavoredsoda3262
      @cheeseflavoredsoda3262 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@molybd3num823 For the same reason nothing is ever built in Africa, COLONIALISM, jk.

  • @Angelgreat
    @Angelgreat 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    TLDR: No money to build a bridge.

    • @ReadyToFlyyy
      @ReadyToFlyyy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      he literally said in the video that's it's not only about money

    • @houseplant1016
      @houseplant1016 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@ReadyToFlyyyhe didn't give any specific reason, only that it's because of corruption and 1 party wants another investment to avoid losing money. So it is about money lmfao.

    • @bababababababa6124
      @bababababababa6124 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@houseplant1016this is literally what I was talking about in my other comment. Ignorant Westerners would always default to the money argument with this issue. The main issue is just the DRC being stubborn about it. They believe that a bridge would undermine their own ports as RC has better port facilities and many businesses in DRC would choose to ship from there instead if there was an easy route there. Yes, money is a small factor but I’m assuming you’re the one who didn’t watch the video otherwise you would’ve caught this

    • @houseplant1016
      @houseplant1016 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@bababababababa6124 literally what I said, so it is clearly about money, the drc doesn't want to lose money/is afraid to lose by the competition...Also bold of you to assume I am Western while I am just an African.

  • @paul9299
    @paul9299 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice of you to interrupt your commercial with a bit of content. FFS man unsubscribed, you have been going downhill for a while now ✌️

  • @Giannis_Potamitis
    @Giannis_Potamitis 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    im bisexual

  • @houseplant1016
    @houseplant1016 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Because of Rwandan sabotage😠

  • @FlamingBasketballClub
    @FlamingBasketballClub 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The fragile states index seems somewhat biased.