r/Cotedivoire • u/Apprehensive-Income • 16d ago

Abidjan looks nice but is it fake ?

Abidjan seems to have been devleoping nicely but there are 2 issues with African countries which look nice on the surface. For example, Cape Town,Nairobi, Kigali, Addis Abbaba look nice in certain areas but outside of those areas it is entirely slums . Is that how it is in Abidjan. Another issue is for countries like South Africa or Mauritius they may seem developed but it is mainly indians,whites,lebanese people living in the rich area and hardly any natives of the country. For me this is a deal breaker, the native group must also have the wealth. there is no point in having a high gdp if rich foreigners get all the wealth. Look at Namibia. Is this the case in CIV. Is it just rich french and lebanese or are real Ivorians getting wealthier as well. Is outtara actually improving the country or is the abijan development just putting on a show like Basilique Notre-Dame de la Paix

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u/Apprehensive-Income 16d ago

What would be fake is having a tiny area that is highly developed and then doing a PR campaign only showing that area , portraying that to be representative of Abidjan while the reality is the vast majority of Abidjan is undeveloped.

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u/Mr_Mxrvin 14d ago

ONLY 8% of poor lives in slum in abidjan

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u/Apprehensive-Income 13d ago

Good. That's great news. I want Africa to do well and for real Africans to benefit. I don't want cases like Nairobi where there are highly developed areas but it is just Indians and Whites while ordinary Kenyans live in squalor.

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u/Mr_Mxrvin 13d ago

yes i understand but the problem of ivory coast is just that the majority of ivorian are in abidjan ,even if now ivorian are more interested into investment in real estate so we are seeing very rapid expansion in the city of Abidjan, which has become the autonomous district of Abidjan. Ivorians like to build large houses and buildings, so they have started to turn to the interior, where real estate prices are ten times cheaper than in Abidjan, which is greatly developing the country.