Why There Isn't A Bridge Between the Congos
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My tip: Most countries with the same name hate eachother.
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*
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.
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
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.
@@bigbootros4362 many can somewhat understand English like reading Billboards but most definitely can't speak with fluency. Same with Pakistan
@@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?
@@micha2909bro what?
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.
0:06 Vienna, Budapest, Bratislava :
*"ARE WE A JOKE TO YOU?!?"*
Being able to take a road trip from South Africa to Morocco or Egypt would be epic.
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 😭
Its been a terrible move everywhere its been tried
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
not everybody wants to live in a hive
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.
an ad that is 20% of your vid... i thought you were better than that
Chillax he gotta bring home the bacon
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.
Who was here before the Thumbnail was changed to ''No Bridges?'' from ''No Bitches?''
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The original text was always "no bridges" but I'll take it
@@KhAnubishi
Great video as always into a topic I'd never thought about, but the second i saw the thumbnail I just had to know!
Best description of KhAnubis’s channel ever.
Great video.
Aren't Southern Nicosia and Northern Nicosia tied with Rome and Vatican as the closest capitals in the world? They're literally touching
Northern Cyprus is not recognized by the vast majority of countries.
@@garethking1639Plus Cyprus claims the entirety of Nicosia as their own
And if we go by that same logic we also have Jerusalem in a similar situation: Palestine claims East Jerusalem as their capital and Israel claims the entire city as their capital
In reality land: Israel controls it all
How hard is to build roads across the Sahara and what do they do to prevent them getting swallowed by dunes?
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.
It's easier than plowing snow.
"We won't cooperate on building the bridge if you don't invest in our port!"
"That's Banana!"
7:57 Congo-Congo Congo crossing crossing the Congo
A port named Banana?
New shipping hub in southwest Africa.
Reaching the world from southwest Congo.
Port of Banana
@@Koala1203First BLACK President of Zimbabwe (mandate 1980-1987), BEFORE Robert Mugabe, was Canaan Banana !!!
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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.
The Capital is Bordered
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Slovenia has Ljubljana, not Bratislava
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First comment, I call Zaire Dr Congo also, and the other Regular Congo
Dr Congo is the one everyone knows the other one nobody knows anything about.
*Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga (Joseph-Désiré Mobutu)
I would really love, if you got some local experts to chime into these kinda videos
I live in Bangladesh
businessmen definitely didn't chgange between the Congo occupation and today.
5:44 or Napoleon
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
I now know that a city named banana exists and that makes me feel........ good
So I can't drive from the capital of the Congo across the Congo to the capital of the Congo. Got it. 🤣🤣🤣
(0:12) I can never get over how people say "culam-eaters". Do you also say "centom-eaters"?
Within 5 hours!
4:50
Well at this Time Ruanda and Burundi were also Belgian Colonies
@P4Tri0t420
NOPE, they were Colonies of Imperial Germany / Hohenzolern!2nd Reich !!!
@@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
Deleted bc straight bs
Video begins at 5:50
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Same is true for border between Pakistan and India. They should build bridges
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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
Isn't the Congo preposterously deep?
Shouldn't they build railways instead of highways?
both are good
Airways will be best
Holy shit!! A transafrican highway!!??? 😨😨😨 That would be a wonder of the world... Think about it.
It's cheaper than build a wall. 😅
Foremanescque thumbnail
No Congo across.
We wuz bridge buildrz
I will never I hear ‘Dr Congo’
Most Westerners will probably just default to the answer “they have no money”
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.
Projecting much?
Or it gets looted
@@Ozzymandius1you’re just waffling 😂😂
@@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
why is everyone making videos about central african countries?
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.
Because why not? If you don’t want to see it then don’t watch
Africa poor west rich west good
I cant take the cover seriously. I accidentally read it as No Bitches?
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i am from Belgium its all my fault sorry .
Because nobody built them.
Why did nobody build them? That's the question
@@molybd3num823 For the same reason nothing is ever built in Africa, COLONIALISM, jk.
TLDR: No money to build a bridge.
he literally said in the video that's it's not only about money
@@regamoxhe 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.
@@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
@@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.
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The fragile states index seems somewhat biased.