Atlanta

Why does new development in Atlanta bear similarities to new development in sub-saharan Africa? 

Atlanta

Africa

That "home on the range, wide open country " feeling you get while on the road in the US, is at least 10 times as strong on the road in the Motherland. That shit is magical. 

Tanzania

From this video I get the sense that the pace of development is the extreme edge of rapid and the extreme edge of slow. 

Development patterns in many African cities look surprisingly similar to American cities. The land usage is mixed between areas of high density housing, low density housing, single family homes, multi family homes, high rises, auto-oriented boulevards, pedestrian oriented commercial streets, auto-oriented businesses, all in various states of cohesion or non-cohesion. This is mad different from much of what you will find around the World, where cities have endless neighborhoods consisting of typical high to super high population density. High density is typical for big cities in most of the World, except America. Interesting to see similarities from a place so different. 

 

Black America: Abridged Africa, A Bridge to Africa

Black America is an abridged Africa.

Though not on the same scale, we've had: 

- Slavery 

- Exploitation 

- Religions forced on us 

- Cities bombed from the air and destroyed

- Infectious diseases spread via. Government conspiracy

- Decades of government 

disinvestment 

- White Terrorism 

- Corrupt Police 

- Street Tribes aka Gangs being infiltrated, exploited or corrupted and turned against each other (War on Drugs, J Edgar Hoover)  

- Corrupt Leaders 

- Rampant misogyny 

- Polluted Water 

- Black on Black Violence 

- Ruthless assassinations 

- Prison slavery 

No genocides, yet. Very little starvation, but obesity is an epidemic. 

Yet we still here and more prosperous than ever, just like Africa.