Houphouet-Boigny was one the most visionary leaders of Africa,way ahead of his time. His vision to develop lthe Ivory coast to the highest standards and make his country the most successful and economically advanced in West Africa was achieved in his Life time.l remember Cote d'Ivoire at the time was so beautiful the jewel of West Africa.Abidjan was petite Paris.Unfortunately after his demise the lvorians became distracted from the vision and were eventually divided with the country descending into civil war.l pray the younger generation uphold Houphouet-Boigny s vision and work towards building and restoring their entire country and make it Beautiful again. The foundation was perfectly laid they just need to restore, build expand ,
So much potential there. Love the wide boulevards... Houphouet Boigny, the first Ivorian president had vision. If he had remained alive, he would have transformed Yamoussoukro into the capital city status it deserves..... A beautiful place all the same. Love from a fellow African, who happens to be from Ghana. 🇬🇭❤️🇨🇮
I lived there for 5 years, it is not an abandoned city, the only thing is that it is not overcrowded. If you live there for a long time you start thinking that that's the standard for a city in terms of population density; and feel a bit stressed out when you go to busy cities like Abidjan
The city would have been one of the best African cities if its developmental tempo was sustained. I love the city design. It was carefully and nicely planned.
@@ernestsama5489: Yes, I quite agree with you. Only Biafra, if emerged would have made such a difference because we Igbo Biafrans like diversifications. For example, there is a state called Anambra state, located in the South East of Nigeria which was being rated by a UN body as a one-state-capital. Which means that the developments in the entire state is not centred on the capital city alone, but that it is rapidly spreading across the towns and villages. Unfortunately, we Igbo Biafrans are not loved and welcomed in Nigeria. Nigerians hate us and kill us at will. All the developments in the entire Igbo land are individual based. Even our airports were built by us but Nigerian govt refused to approved any to full international airport. If we want to travel out of Nigeria, we must travel from South East to either Abuja or Lagos to catch our flights, even when we the Igbo Biafrans are the most frequently and widely traveled, not only in Nigeria but in the whole of Africa. This is why we have resolve that we must exit from Nigeria and restore our Biafra Nation for us to move and develop at our own speed. We have suffered so much in Nigeria.
Beautiful sky line and beautiful environment. Less crowd. Why it looks deserted is because people are very reluctant to move from their comfort zone couple with the fear of the unknown. If all the government establishment are forced to move as done in Lagos to Abuja, then the place would have more crowd. Great content as always. Beautiful! Congratulations AT
@@AFRICANTIGRESS this city was the village of the first President, he wanted the capital city to be there, he transferred the capital there, unfortunately after his death, the other Presidents didn't continue the project of moving the capital there,. Yes the city is abandoned. You're right, normally all the embassies and administrative building should be transferred there, the government headquarter .... Very sad
Good report! I’m from Ivory Coast 🇨🇮 but live I’m the USA 🇺🇸! I’m planning to go back home when I’m retired and live in Yamoussoukro quiet city and beautiful 😍
I am From Ghana. Houphet Boignet is from Ghana. I hope in Future a lot of Akan People in Ivory Coast get together and settle in YamoussKro to expand in Great Numbers. I hope in Future these Akan People will Unite with the Akans in Ghana, especially, the Asantes.
Houphouët-Boigny does not come from Ghana, he comes from the Ivory Coast, he is an Ivorian. if an Ivorian tell you that Kwame Nkrumah comes from Ivory Coast you won't like it
The city seems calm and it is well geographically located,the green 💚 land looks so amazing,I'lld like to settle here and learn French too. Nice work African Tigress 😻👍.
Felix Houphouet did not only build a basilica, he also built the best schools in Ivory coast located in Yamoussoukro. For example lycee scientifique and institut polytechnique where all the top engineers in ivory coast have studied.
just WOW!!! look at the size of the roads... this place is simply where everyone should come to live. this city looks so wow to me. I can already imagine sky-grades on the edges like in Abidjan... I even wonder if it's really in Africa. where several African countries have difficulties with the planning of their cities, the Ivorians have that, and they are not interested in it ... it's INCREDIBLE. if Ivorians are not interested in this city, then I imagine what their other cities look like. frankly, i did not know that ivory coast had reached this level of development. this country is a hidden gem.
Really?..."you wonder if it's really in Africa."??..Hahaha..then you haven't seen the wonderful roads in Abidjan.... Namibian cities....Abuja, Nigeria....and many cities in Nigeria... Botswana.... South Africa....lolll
Is Abuja empty? Have you ever seen such a well-designed but empty city in Africa? it's usually in countries like china that you can see that, not in Africa. why do you feel indexed?
Hi African Tigress ! I'm an ivorian. Is Yamoussoukro an abandoned city ? your question is true. Since our 1st President Felix died, the city has been abandoned. It suppose to be our capital but it has never played this role. Only Abidjan plays the role of capital city
Yamoussoukro population cannot be compared to Abidjan which is center of most economic activities from era days just similarly to Logos, Nigeria, the most congested in West Africa. I believe that due to failed projects,Yamoussoukro seems more or less an administratively than businesses entity. Camera Video coverage of this adventure is clear viewing.👍🏾
Hi AT I'm tried several times to give you a thumbs-up e.g. a like but it doesn't work. I see that you're enjoying Ivory Coast. Before you know it you'll be one of the greatest interpreters of Ivory Coast. Your French immersion or command of the language is out of this world. Très prochainement tu n'auras plus de vidéos en anglais. C'est génial. En tout cas prends bien soin de toi. Au revoir et à bientôt.
Que placer debe ser manejar e esas calles tan amplias, en muy buen estado. Aparte me gusta la gran cantidad de arboles en sus calles, algo muy bueno por el clima de la región, sus parques, la falta de muchedumbres por la calles, podo congestionamiento de tránsito, su muy buena planificación. Seguramente será mas activa cuando se decida trasladar por completo el sector administrativo a esta ciudad, construida para tal fin. Saludos desde Santa Fe, Argentina.
African Tigress, Thanks so much for the wonderful renditions. I used to play them in those days, too, but now I've forgotten the names of the musicians.
It's good to see you are really enjoying your stay in Ivory Coast. Let us know of happenings with you over there. Are you also considering to somewhere outside Africa? Good video!
Your driver did not show you the Residences of Yamoussoukro and also the polytechnic university of Yamoussoukro it is so big and beautiful that several African executives attended there like Tidjane Thiam the former CEO of the Swiss bank Credit Suisse he is also the grandson of Houphouët-Boigny. Hope you have a great day there
African Tigress I love your French accent, and you are trying. “ Je ne mange pas parceque je n’ai rien mangé aujourd’hui “ 😂 😂, I just love you. Real African queen. Very humble everywhere you go. I applaud you.
@@AFRICANTIGRESS ahaha. French complications can land someone into trouble. Initially when you said: "Je n'ai pas mangé aujourd'hui parce que je ne mange pas" you literally meant" I didn't eat today because I' m not eating ( aka " because I choose not to or I don't want to or I am fasting). Reason why he said apologetically "oh c est bon" and seemed confused when you said it again..I laughed hard. The proper way of saying it should have been " Je voudrais manger parce que je n'ai pas encore mangé aujourd'hui".. Thankfully you were understood and fed at last. Enjoy your stay!🙂
For all those who want to know, Yamoussoukro is a reserve capital, the futuristic city in reserve for the future development of the Ivory Coast because all these big roads that you see, precede the construction of a big city developed with infrastructures real estate on a global scale and, for this moment, the plan of yamoussokro has already been drawn up and is still in the drawers of the presidency, and this is already prepared by these major arteries and after when abidjan and Bouaké will be overwhelmed it is she who will take the place
Absolutely, because very soon, it will be very difficult to live and move easily by car in Abidjan and, it has already started so, Yamoussoukro is already planned to resolve the situation. And I think Houphouet was a real visionary and good president
There is so much space there..it got Ghanaian Ashanti name. Nigerian should be migrating there to live instead of Ghana to ease down the pressure on Ghana
@xoxox is part of West Africa and they can come and live there. Share the burden too. Ivory coast is bigger than Ghana. Nigeria is 250 million people. And most wants to leave to other countries. Ghana already have 7 million Nigerians living here. We should share it.
Les autorités ivoiriennes auraient pu ( dû) aider des entreprises à delocaliser d'Abidjan à yakro pour justement désengorger Abidjan trop peuplée pour repeupler Yamoussoukro qui a sûrement besoin Non seulement de voir sa population augmenter mais surtout a besoin d'emplois.
Je ne suis pas d'accord que Yamoussoukro soit la capitale. Cette décision a été prise sous une époque où la démocratie n'existait pas. Vu la violence actes xenophobes actionnés par les otoctonnes de la ville lors du dernier élection présidentielle. Prouve que Yamoussoukro ne peux pas être une capitale. C'est au tour du nord d'être déveloper pour mettre fin à toues les attitudes xenophobes. Korogo et autre ville du nord mérite d'être choisir. S'il devait avoir une capitale en
@@anzoumanafofana873Anything when you see a rebel have recognised it you tried to destroy Côte d’Ivoire with your dirty stories of xenophobia with the complicity of Burkinabe and Malian trafficking gang
Abidjan is the economic capital and Yamoussoukro is the political capital of Ivory Coast so they are both capitals of the country but unfortunately after our first president the others did not develop or help this capital to rise. It is only the actual president that is trying to build more infrastructures and give to Yamoussoukro the capital image it deserves in the coming years. Hoping that he makes it happen as Abidjan is crowded now
TOTALY WRONG !! The last président who did take care of this city is LAURENT GBAGBO, the former président snached by french troops, to impose this actual one. They Abandonned this city because of Tribals rivality. This city is locate in the hart of the AKAN area..The Tribalist and acual président imposed by french s bombes are supporte by mostly nothen muslum population and others Africans neighbors(Burkina Guinée,before Mali but not anymore).To be electe he lied to the AKAN people and All the Ivorian that Hé will transfert many things from abidjan till there.But NOTHING happened since..The French imposed him there own program..
Your actual President , Alassane Dramane Ouattara the native of Sindou in Burkina Faso, is a bandit, a tyrant, a criminal and a french puppet He is not even an Ivorian and care nothing about Ivory Coast and its cities. He is only there to serve the French interests and help the french rob Ivory Coast mineral resources. The French and their army based in Port Bouet, near the Airport in Abidjan, Ivory Coast are keeping him in power by force, to loot the country resources. This who is from Burkina Faso is ruling the country with a gang of thieves and murderers. They are making life very hard for the Ivorians. It is Laurent Gbagbo, the progressist and Panafrican President and Ivorian freedom fighter that the french removed by force, who try to revive Yamoussoukro and starting the plan to.move the administration to Yamoussoukro, but since the French removed him, even the Parliament building that Gbagbo build in Yamoussoukro was abandoned by the criminals and thieves who rule that country today.
I’m just imagining what 100 Africans and African descendants with money would mean to this town. The road infrastructures is there, what else do we need to invest and uplift this place?
I was thinking the same thing!!! If we could go there and create something amazing especially with the amount of black owned businesses we have!!! We can have our black Wall Street on a larger scale and not be bothered by the other entities..
I think Ivorian government need to move all their government parastatals to the new capital and enforce all embassies to do so. This is what Nigeria did in the 90s
Nigeria's move was popular with the public, widely supported. This one was a one man show and it was forced. It will never grow because of its location
@@pontianekakoro1737 It was not that easy my friend, even when all government parastatals were forced to move, a lot of the workers are reluctant to go, some were persuaded with accommodation and transportation before they moved. There are afraid to leave their comfort zone and the fear of the unknown, just like any human.
Excellent Layout, great town planning with wonderful roads but I can rarely see great building structures. I think it'll take a very long time for this city to meet up with Abidjan. This is obviously a project for the future.. Similar vision as Abuja but hope this won't turn to a white elephant 🐘 project!
The city is truly well planned and very massive. Their good roads (wide, clean, good street lighting, solidly built, good drainage system, etc) are second to none in the whole of West Africa and some other parts of Africa. I wish they had these kinds of good and wide roads and road network across Nigeria. Unfortunately, many innocent lives have been lost to road accident in Nigeria due to bad roads. Nigerians city planners have a lot to copy from Ivory Coast. Dumez was once a road construction company in Nigeria. What happened to them? Why didn’t they build these kind of wide roads in Nigeria then in the 1970s and 1980s?
Did you really just say "second to none in the whole of West Africa"? That's totally wrong, and you know that. Have you been to other cities in West Africa? I don't think so...loll This is a nice looking city, but please visit Abuja and see the amazing roads and how wide and well planned they are...visit Uyo in Akwa Ibom or Calabar, or even Enugu... or Dakar, Senegal...before calling these roads second to none, Ok...lolll One Africa!
stupid comment, you can make your point without mentioning Nigeria. Have you ever been to Abuja? Abuja has very wide good roads with 5 lanes for each side and far clean than these city. These roads looks soo dusty but cool... They should make Abidjan the capital city not these city.
@@papap1186 Thanks for explaining things to this person who hasn't been anywhere else in West Africa, and is making such a wrong statement...loll... "Wws Wewillsee" needs to watch Abuja videos on RUclips and get informed... This is what happens when people just make comments without first getting educated and informed about other cities in West Africa....even visit Cotonou, in Benin Republic and see wonderful wide roads.... Love to the Ivory Coast always and the rest of Africa.
Abidjan remains the economic capital of Cote d"Ivoire while Yamoussoukro serves as the administrative capital. It has also been pointed out by Ivorians in your own previous videos that most administrative services are located in Abidjan and not Yamoussoukro
@@enterpriseerin857 You see, this "city" was the brainchild of Boigny, he forcefully relocated the capital here to develop his village as dictators usually do. The move was very unpopular but nobody could oppose the dictator. When Boigny died, the successive governments stopped funding and supporting the project. However, a lot of public money went to the construction of Yamoussoukro so the current or other governments could not just do away with it so officially it remains the capital but in practice it is not. Remember Gbadolite of Mobutu in the RDC? It's exactly the same case here. At least this one is still in use. Gbadolite is a ghots town
@@pontianekakoro1737 nonsense, the developmental was cancelled by the new administration in power now.. we hope the new administration in 2025 will revival the yamoussokro project as ivory Coast capital...🥳🥳🥳💯💯💯🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮
I love to know more about this abandoned city called Yamoussoukro . I am going learn this great expectations from African Tigress touring trip. Political and economical and tribal factors had perceived effects In this “sleepy jungle town” before the traitor first President Felix Boigny in 1983 turned it to a capital state. Waiting on African Tigress Zion train. 👍🏾
The city was in fact the village of the first President, he built it and transfer the capital there. But those who came after his death didn't continue his project, they didn't officially bring back the capital city to Abidjan, but they also didn't continue the project of transfer of the capital .
@@leopoldnguessan4639 mais c’est faux ce que tu dis !!! Yamoussoukro demeure toujours la capitale politique je dis bien politique, donc de quoi tu parles??? Un ministre de dramane avait dit après Abidjan sera le tour de bouaké ensuite Yamoussoukro pour la construction des infrastructures …… faut te revoir heinnnn
Humble beginnings for this city. But it will get better with time. All it takes is for a certain president to decide that all national government institutions be moved out of Abidjan to Yakro and the city will kick off in Ernest. Abuja was once desolate, now it's one of Nigeria's biggest cities.
The reason why Yamoussoukro is like that , Yamoussoukro was not main to be a city , it’s basically the late first president village , he wanted to turn it into a city so he moved the capital from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro then he started the layout of city as you can see the roads are well paved but no infrastructure , unfortunately he passed away before finishing his project, the following presidents did not follow that vision ( I don’t think people were really ok for for the capital to be moved from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro) the city was then left abandoned. But cities like bouake or sanpedro are well developed then Yamoussoukro
I Hope you'll come back again in my country, Côte d'Ivoire 🇨🇮. Things are changing. Gouvernment is building new infrastructures to make our country more beautiful. Your french is not so bad as Kenyan. Generally, here for us, all Kenyans are Masaï people. It was a mistake.
tribalism/selfish is a big issue among Africans... We are learning everyday.. hope you visit other Ivory Coast cities before you leave .San Pedro is a nice place aswell
@@lashaball790 It is every where, even here in Nigeria my brother. Those in power will develop their area by siteing more projects in their area than the others even those that are useless to that area. Example is Kastina, the president state, the numbers of projects sited within the 8 years of this administration is astronomical. Until each countries have visionary leaders that are not selfish or tribalistic but put the country frist before anybody then we will see a different Africa. We are not in competition with ourselves but use each other's strength to develop. Have you observed two drivers going to the same destination, when one leads the other follows at another point the one behind leads, that is giving one another the strength and encouragement to move keeping watch over one another.
@@lashaball790 Ivory Coast and Ghana are thesame economically, before the crises in Ivory Coast you were above Ghana economically for more than 4 decades , now Ivory Coast is posing to reclaim their second position as the biggest economy in west Africa.. There are more tribalism in Nigeria than any other country in subsahara, Nigeria has more than 500 languages IL,I can understand why they have tribalism issues...
I Love this video, AT you are truly a Great Explorer. I was thinking, isn't it safer to ride in a taxi than on that motorcycle? I always like you to take the safest route. 💛
Don't mind the empty aspect of this City. Just praise the fact that the roads are big ,green and clean. Generally Crouded city are noisy and dirty. Indeed it will be the city of the future when the infrastructures will be completed .
1:00, Italian guys call it LA CATTEDRALE NEL DESERTO (The cathedral in the desert) because of its big size in a town with less than a million inhabitants
Reak reason why Italian guys call it LA CATTEDRALE NEL DESERTO , it is just because they had the biggest church in the world in Italy , but when Ivorian built their Basilica Italian lost the title of owner of biggest church , it upset them and they start throwing stone at the Ivorian basilica . This is the real reason they nickname the basilica LA CATTEDRALE NEL DESERTO.
Not really empty, population of 310k in 2014 and around 500k now but the town is designed to bear millions people like Abidjan right now. So having half million versus 5 millions is what is making this city seems empty! 😂
It is a town made for schools. The biggest activities of the town is education. That was the purpose of the first president of the country. But little by little, certains things are being installed there.
the first president did what he could but when he passes we gone through two wars so everything got centralise in Abidjan ,now ABIDJAN IS the capital city. it's sad
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Catching up I like it nice city to live in.I hope uko sawa mimi nime kuwa busy kidogo
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Yafa/beautiful I will have to get a second home over there.
@@enterpriseerin857 Why say that act mature she did reply someone on the chat today and has always done so many times just scroll down .
Vive la Côte d'ivoire !
Houphouet-Boigny was one the most visionary leaders of Africa,way ahead of his time. His vision to develop lthe Ivory coast to the highest standards and make his country the most successful and economically advanced in West Africa was achieved in his Life time.l remember Cote d'Ivoire at the time was so beautiful the jewel of West Africa.Abidjan was petite Paris.Unfortunately after his demise the lvorians became distracted from the vision and were eventually divided with the country descending into civil war.l pray the younger generation uphold Houphouet-Boigny s vision and work towards building and restoring their entire country and make it Beautiful again. The foundation was perfectly laid they just need to restore, build expand ,
So much potential there. Love the wide boulevards... Houphouet Boigny, the first Ivorian president had vision. If he had remained alive, he would have transformed Yamoussoukro into the capital city status it deserves.....
A beautiful place all the same. Love from a fellow African, who happens to be from Ghana. 🇬🇭❤️🇨🇮
I lived there for 5 years, it is not an abandoned city, the only thing is that it is not overcrowded. If you live there for a long time you start thinking that that's the standard for a city in terms of population density; and feel a bit stressed out when you go to busy cities like Abidjan
Any tourguide companies you can recommend for yamasoukro?
There are no buildings on most of the streets.
This capital looks beautiful: wide roads, less crowding , nice buildings and it appears a thriving trucking industry. Great video.
The city would have been one of the best African cities if its developmental tempo was sustained. I love the city design. It was carefully and nicely planned.
True
Wow
One particular thing about west west African countries IS that they concentrate everything in their capital cités and ignore thé rest of thé countries
@@ernestsama5489: Yes, I quite agree with you. Only Biafra, if emerged would have made such a difference because we Igbo Biafrans like diversifications. For example, there is a state called Anambra state, located in the South East of Nigeria which was being rated by a UN body as a one-state-capital. Which means that the developments in the entire state is not centred on the capital city alone, but that it is rapidly spreading across the towns and villages. Unfortunately, we Igbo Biafrans are not loved and welcomed in Nigeria. Nigerians hate us and kill us at will. All the developments in the entire Igbo land are individual based. Even our airports were built by us but Nigerian govt refused to approved any to full international airport. If we want to travel out of Nigeria, we must travel from South East to either Abuja or Lagos to catch our flights, even when we the Igbo Biafrans are the most frequently and widely traveled, not only in Nigeria but in the whole of Africa. This is why we have resolve that we must exit from Nigeria and restore our Biafra Nation for us to move and develop at our own speed. We have suffered so much in Nigeria.
@@chukwuemekaooo I doubt it
Beautiful sky line and beautiful environment. Less crowd. Why it looks deserted is because people are very reluctant to move from their comfort zone couple with the fear of the unknown. If all the government establishment are forced to move as done in Lagos to Abuja, then the place would have more crowd. Great content as always. Beautiful! Congratulations AT
Thank you 🤗
@@AFRICANTIGRESS this city was the village of the first President, he wanted the capital city to be there, he transferred the capital there, unfortunately after his death, the other Presidents didn't continue the project of moving the capital there,. Yes the city is abandoned. You're right, normally all the embassies and administrative building should be transferred there, the government headquarter .... Very sad
I really appreciate your local friend keeping you safe, showing you around, and being a respectable gentlemen.
Good report! I’m from Ivory Coast 🇨🇮 but live I’m the USA 🇺🇸! I’m planning to go back home when I’m retired and live in Yamoussoukro quiet city and beautiful 😍
I am From Ghana. Houphet Boignet is from Ghana. I hope in Future a lot of Akan People in Ivory Coast get together and settle in YamoussKro to expand in Great Numbers. I hope in Future these Akan People will Unite with the Akans in Ghana, especially, the Asantes.
They should unite now for Africa to progress.
Houphouët-Boigny does not come from Ghana, he comes from the Ivory Coast, he is an Ivorian.
if an Ivorian tell you that Kwame Nkrumah comes from Ivory Coast you won't like it
kwame kruman came frome cote d'ivoire.
houphouet is ivorian not ashanti ok?
Lol n’importe quoi!!!
Houphouët is not from Ghana but is Ivorian ! He's born here and was raised here! Plus Ghana didn't even exist at the time lol...
The city seems calm and it is well geographically located,the green 💚 land looks so amazing,I'lld like to settle here and learn French too.
Nice work African Tigress 😻👍.
We should learn African language and not oppressors. Starting with Kiswahili
Felix Houphouet did not only build a basilica, he also built the best schools in Ivory coast located in Yamoussoukro. For example lycee scientifique and institut polytechnique where all the top engineers in ivory coast have studied.
That too was abandoned🤦🏾♀️
@@AllThought No they are not abandoned, search it and you will see.
@@jonathansk5608 I saw a short documentary on YT a few years back that spoke on it. It’s unfortunate, because the school has potential
@@AllThought just check INPHB yamoussoukro, people are still studying there.
@@jonathansk5608 yes, but it looks like crap. It’s on RUclips.
Peaceful place to live,thank you again and again AT stay blessed❤
Nice, for me it's all about the greens, beautiful blue skies and clouds 💯
OMG I missed the premier but I have watched... Thank you for sharing Tigress
You are welcome 🤗
just WOW!!! look at the size of the roads...
this place is simply where everyone should come to live. this city looks so wow to me. I can already imagine sky-grades on the edges like in Abidjan...
I even wonder if it's really in Africa.
where several African countries have difficulties with the planning of their cities, the Ivorians have that, and they are not interested in it ... it's INCREDIBLE.
if Ivorians are not interested in this city, then I imagine what their other cities look like.
frankly, i did not know that ivory coast had reached this level of development.
this country is a hidden gem.
Theres nothing over the top fantastic in this Yamas...pls. Abidjan is miles better than this city thats so very dusty
Really?..."you wonder if it's really in Africa."??..Hahaha..then you haven't seen the wonderful roads in Abidjan.... Namibian cities....Abuja, Nigeria....and many cities in Nigeria... Botswana.... South Africa....lolll
@@interestingthingstoknow8975 nigeria? 😂 😂
@@hk254lyt8 yes, Abuja Nigeria precisely.
Is Abuja empty? Have you ever seen such a well-designed but empty city in Africa? it's usually in countries like china that you can see that, not in Africa. why do you feel indexed?
I'm in love with ghost cities, I don't like disturbance at all. Kudos African Tigress👍
You are welcome 🤗
Wow nice wide road's, very green , the trees make it more beautiful. Thanks for taking us along
Hi African Tigress ! I'm an ivorian. Is Yamoussoukro an abandoned city ? your question is true. Since our 1st President Felix died, the city has been abandoned. It suppose to be our capital but it has never played this role. Only Abidjan plays the role of capital city
Yamoussoukro population cannot be compared to Abidjan which is center of most economic activities from era days just similarly to Logos, Nigeria, the most congested in West Africa. I believe that due to failed projects,Yamoussoukro seems more or less an administratively than businesses entity. Camera Video coverage of this adventure is clear viewing.👍🏾
Félix Houphouët Boigny, toi "Le Vieux" tu nous manques à tous
Oh African Tigress, I missed the premiere, beautiful video nonetheless
Hi AT
I'm tried several times to give you a thumbs-up e.g. a like but it doesn't work.
I see that you're enjoying Ivory Coast.
Before you know it you'll be one of the greatest interpreters of Ivory Coast.
Your French immersion or command of the language is out of this world.
Très prochainement tu n'auras plus de vidéos en anglais. C'est génial.
En tout cas prends bien soin de toi.
Au revoir et à bientôt.
Another Beautiful country in Africa thank you for sharing👋🏾
I wonder how many people live in this capital. Nice to see such wide roads. Beautifully designed city.
Around 310k in 2014 Population Census. A Census has been done in last year in 2021 but I don't have yet the details
thanks AFRICAN TIGRESSE
to show our country to the world
big up to you merciiiiiiii.
Thank you for sharing Tigress 👀👍
Que placer debe ser manejar e esas calles tan amplias, en muy buen estado. Aparte me gusta la gran cantidad de arboles en sus calles, algo muy bueno por el clima de la región, sus parques, la falta de muchedumbres por la calles, podo congestionamiento de tránsito, su muy buena planificación. Seguramente será mas activa cuando se decida trasladar por completo el sector administrativo a esta ciudad, construida para tal fin. Saludos desde Santa Fe, Argentina.
The transfer from the capital is coming soon
African Tigress, Thanks so much for the wonderful renditions. I used to play them in those days, too, but now I've forgotten the names of the musicians.
It's good to see you are really enjoying your stay in Ivory Coast. Let us know of happenings with you over there. Are you also considering to somewhere outside Africa? Good video!
Of course I will travel the world 🌍
Your driver did not show you the Residences of Yamoussoukro and also the polytechnic university of Yamoussoukro it is so big and beautiful that several African executives attended there
like Tidjane Thiam the former CEO of the Swiss bank Credit Suisse he is also the grandson of Houphouët-Boigny. Hope you have a great day there
Thanks for this... it reminded me of my visit there sometime ago. Anyway who played the background music? Well done .. very educative.
Who played your background music please?
Thanks so much for the wonderful job and the amazing music there
I realy enjoy the video💕💕💕 i love yamoussougro🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮
Keep going sister 👍
African Tigress I love your French accent, and you are trying. “ Je ne mange pas parceque je n’ai rien mangé aujourd’hui “ 😂 😂, I just love you. Real African queen. Very humble everywhere you go. I applaud you.
Hahahaha thank you 🤗
@@AFRICANTIGRESS ahaha. French complications can land someone into trouble. Initially when you said: "Je n'ai pas mangé aujourd'hui parce que je ne mange pas" you literally meant" I didn't eat today because I' m not eating ( aka " because I choose not to or I don't want to or I am fasting). Reason why he said apologetically "oh c est bon" and seemed confused when you said it again..I laughed hard. The proper way of saying it should have been " Je voudrais manger parce que je n'ai pas encore mangé aujourd'hui".. Thankfully you were understood and fed at last. Enjoy your stay!🙂
@@ethnikbootik2445 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
For all those who want to know, Yamoussoukro is a reserve capital, the futuristic city in reserve for the future development of the Ivory Coast because all these big roads that you see, precede the construction of a big city developed with infrastructures real estate on a global scale and, for this moment, the plan of yamoussokro has already been drawn up and is still in the drawers of the presidency, and this is already prepared by these major arteries and after when abidjan and Bouaké will be overwhelmed it is she who will take the place
Very true. I’m convinced that in 20 years people will get tired of overpopulated Abidjan and start going there.
Absolutely, because very soon, it will be very difficult to live and move easily by car in Abidjan and, it has already started so, Yamoussoukro is already planned to resolve the situation. And I think Houphouet was a real visionary and good president
I'm happy to hear that 👌 Can't wait to see more greatness from Cote d'ivoire.The country is beautiful,great infrastructure with beautiful scenery 🙌🇿🇦
Thank you for sharing Yakro with us. It is a great place to retire, enjoy the quietness or entertain family and friends
Oh What a visionary Leader. Please don't forget to show it to Akufo Addo of Ghana and Buhari of Nigeria. Dead on arrival Presidents.
Belle vidéo. Merci et à bientôt
I love the song from Ghana
There is so much space there..it got Ghanaian Ashanti name. Nigerian should be migrating there to live instead of Ghana to ease down the pressure on Ghana
@xoxox is part of West Africa and they can come and live there. Share the burden too. Ivory coast is bigger than Ghana. Nigeria is 250 million people. And most wants to leave to other countries. Ghana already have 7 million Nigerians living here. We should share it.
@@8674k your convo here is sending me…so you want to spread the Nigerian burden throughout west Africa?😂
Beautiful place, looks great and peaceful.
Les autorités ivoiriennes auraient pu ( dû) aider des entreprises à delocaliser d'Abidjan à yakro pour justement désengorger Abidjan trop peuplée pour repeupler Yamoussoukro qui a sûrement besoin Non seulement de voir sa population augmenter mais surtout a besoin d'emplois.
Je ne suis pas d'accord que Yamoussoukro soit la capitale. Cette décision a été prise sous une époque où la démocratie n'existait pas.
Vu la violence actes xenophobes actionnés par les otoctonnes de la ville lors du dernier élection présidentielle. Prouve que Yamoussoukro ne peux pas être une capitale.
C'est au tour du nord d'être déveloper pour mettre fin à toues les attitudes xenophobes. Korogo et autre ville du nord mérite d'être choisir.
S'il devait avoir une capitale en
@@anzoumanafofana873 Toi, à ton avis, actuellement Ya la démocratie en Côte d'Ivoire sous Ouattara ?
@@anzoumanafofana873Anything when you see a rebel have recognised it you tried to destroy Côte d’Ivoire with your dirty stories of xenophobia with the complicity of Burkinabe and Malian trafficking gang
Abidjan is the economic capital and Yamoussoukro is the political capital of Ivory Coast so they are both capitals of the country but unfortunately after our first president the others did not develop or help this capital to rise. It is only the actual president that is trying to build more infrastructures and give to Yamoussoukro the capital image it deserves in the coming years. Hoping that he makes it happen as Abidjan is crowded now
Definitely ☺️ ! Thanks !
Hope so too sarah 👍💪
TOTALY WRONG !!
The last président who did take care of this city is LAURENT GBAGBO, the former président snached by french troops, to impose this actual one.
They Abandonned this city because of Tribals rivality. This city is locate in the hart of the AKAN area..The Tribalist and acual président imposed by french s bombes are supporte by mostly nothen muslum population and others Africans neighbors(Burkina Guinée,before Mali but not anymore).To be electe he lied to the AKAN people and All the Ivorian that Hé will transfert many things from abidjan till there.But NOTHING happened since..The French imposed him there own program..
Your actual President , Alassane Dramane Ouattara the native of Sindou in Burkina Faso, is a bandit, a tyrant, a criminal and a french puppet He is not even an Ivorian and care nothing about Ivory Coast and its cities. He is only there to serve the French interests and help the french rob Ivory Coast mineral resources. The French and their army based in Port Bouet, near the Airport in Abidjan, Ivory Coast are keeping him in power by force, to loot the country resources. This who is from Burkina Faso is ruling the country with a gang of thieves and murderers. They are making life very hard for the Ivorians. It is Laurent Gbagbo, the progressist and Panafrican President and Ivorian freedom fighter that the french removed by force, who try to revive Yamoussoukro and starting the plan to.move the administration to Yamoussoukro, but since the French removed him, even the Parliament building that Gbagbo build in Yamoussoukro was abandoned by the criminals and thieves who rule that country today.
@@lgnawa I Heard a day that, for him who has no forgiveness in his heart, to live is a harder punishment than to die. Think about this !
The music sounds cute and lovely...I appreciate ❤😊
I’m just imagining what 100 Africans and African descendants with money would mean to this town. The road infrastructures is there, what else do we need to invest and uplift this place?
I was thinking the same thing!!! If we could go there and create something amazing especially with the amount of black owned businesses we have!!! We can have our black Wall Street on a larger scale and not be bothered by the other entities..
I think Ivorian government need to move all their government parastatals to the new capital and enforce all embassies to do so. This is what Nigeria did in the 90s
Yes, it's empty because lots of Government parastatals haven't been moved there.
Nigeria's move was popular with the public, widely supported. This one was a one man show and it was forced. It will never grow because of its location
@@pontianekakoro1737 It was not that easy my friend, even when all government parastatals were forced to move, a lot of the workers are reluctant to go, some were persuaded with accommodation and transportation before they moved. There are afraid to leave their comfort zone and the fear of the unknown, just like any human.
@@wadis6374 Ok
I can't see any building where the parastatals can shift to
Excellent Layout, great town planning with wonderful roads but I can rarely see great building structures. I think it'll take a very long time for this city to meet up with Abidjan. This is obviously a project for the future..
Similar vision as Abuja but hope this won't turn to a white elephant 🐘 project!
Their first president from Asante Nsuta in the Ashanti region of Ghana and the actual name is Ofori Boahene.
Nice Gambian kora music 🇬🇲👌
Indeed. Beautiful Mandinka song. With love from The Gambia 🇬🇲
I like the background music and instrumental...who sang and composed them? Please
I just love the music in your videos.
Thank you 🤗
Looks fascinating... Thanks
Wow, love it , especially food in and job
The city is truly well planned and very massive. Their good roads (wide, clean, good street lighting, solidly built, good drainage system, etc) are second to none in the whole of West Africa and some other parts of Africa. I wish they had these kinds of good and wide roads and road network across Nigeria. Unfortunately, many innocent lives have been lost to road accident in Nigeria due to bad roads. Nigerians city planners have a lot to copy from Ivory Coast. Dumez was once a road construction company in Nigeria. What happened to them? Why didn’t they build these kind of wide roads in Nigeria then in the 1970s and 1980s?
Did you really just say "second to none in the whole of West Africa"? That's totally wrong, and you know that. Have you been to other cities in West Africa? I don't think so...loll This is a nice looking city, but please visit Abuja and see the amazing roads and how wide and well planned they are...visit Uyo in Akwa Ibom or Calabar, or even Enugu... or Dakar, Senegal...before calling these roads second to none, Ok...lolll One Africa!
stupid comment, you can make your point without mentioning Nigeria. Have you ever been to Abuja?
Abuja has very wide good roads with 5 lanes for each side and far clean than these city. These roads looks soo dusty but cool...
They should make Abidjan the capital city not these city.
@@papap1186 Thanks for explaining things to this person who hasn't been anywhere else in West Africa, and is making such a wrong statement...loll... "Wws Wewillsee" needs to watch Abuja videos on RUclips and get informed... This is what happens when people just make comments without first getting educated and informed about other cities in West Africa....even visit Cotonou, in Benin Republic and see wonderful wide roads.... Love to the Ivory Coast always and the rest of Africa.
@@interestingthingstoknow8975 dont mind the fool
Abuja has the best road infrastructure in west Africa... Some Nigerians don't even know how well plan their capital city is..
Every Ivorian retiring from the west should set base in Yamoussoukro what a fantastic town, the best ive seen in Africa so far
Abidjan remains the economic capital of Cote d"Ivoire while Yamoussoukro serves as the administrative capital. It has also been pointed out by Ivorians in your own previous videos that most administrative services are located in Abidjan and not Yamoussoukro
So which is it? Admin services still in abidjan
@@enterpriseerin857 You see, this "city" was the brainchild of Boigny, he forcefully relocated the capital here to develop his village as dictators usually do. The move was very unpopular but nobody could oppose the dictator. When Boigny died, the successive governments stopped funding and supporting the project. However, a lot of public money went to the construction of Yamoussoukro so the current or other governments could not just do away with it so officially it remains the capital but in practice it is not. Remember Gbadolite of Mobutu in the RDC? It's exactly the same case here. At least this one is still in use. Gbadolite is a ghots town
@@pontianekakoro1737 nonsense, the developmental was cancelled by the new administration in power now.. we hope the new administration in 2025 will revival the yamoussokro project as ivory Coast capital...🥳🥳🥳💯💯💯🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮
@@djouadjete3838 So, what exactly is the nonsense besides your poor communication?
@@pontianekakoro1737 love your idiocracy..🥳🥳🥳💯💯💯🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮
I love to know more about this abandoned city called Yamoussoukro . I am going learn this great expectations from African Tigress touring trip. Political and economical and tribal factors had perceived effects In this “sleepy jungle town” before the traitor first President Felix Boigny in 1983 turned it to a capital state. Waiting on African Tigress Zion train. 👍🏾
The city was in fact the village of the first President, he built it and transfer the capital there. But those who came after his death didn't continue his project, they didn't officially bring back the capital city to Abidjan, but they also didn't continue the project of transfer of the capital .
@@leopoldnguessan4639 mais c’est faux ce que tu dis !!! Yamoussoukro demeure toujours la capitale politique je dis bien politique, donc de quoi tu parles??? Un ministre de dramane avait dit après Abidjan sera le tour de bouaké ensuite Yamoussoukro pour la construction des infrastructures …… faut te revoir heinnnn
@@miss7968 merci bb
This place is just ok, it'll grow with time. The groundwork has already been done.
True. Just moving some key government functions and it will pick
It's a beautiful place and I enjoyed the ride thank you
I like the spacious, clean, calm and green setting.
Me too
Humble beginnings for this city. But it will get better with time.
All it takes is for a certain president to decide that all national government institutions be moved out of Abidjan to Yakro and the city will kick off in Ernest.
Abuja was once desolate, now it's one of Nigeria's biggest cities.
Please tell me where is st Mary's hospital in ivory coast. I could not found in maps. Please guide me. Please
So empty... Love the road network. I love such quite environment... Unlike what we have in my country , noise everywhere.
Good job
The reason why Yamoussoukro is like that , Yamoussoukro was not main to be a city , it’s basically the late first president village , he wanted to turn it into a city so he moved the capital from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro then he started the layout of city as you can see the roads are well paved but no infrastructure , unfortunately he passed away before finishing his project, the following presidents did not follow that vision ( I don’t think people were really ok for for the capital to be moved from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro) the city was then left abandoned. But cities like bouake or sanpedro are well developed then Yamoussoukro
I Hope you'll come back again in my country, Côte d'Ivoire 🇨🇮. Things are changing. Gouvernment is building new infrastructures to make our country more beautiful.
Your french is not so bad as Kenyan.
Generally, here for us, all Kenyans are Masaï people. It was a mistake.
Gang💃💃💃💃
My Wizzie ❤️
@@AFRICANTIGRESS ❤❤❤
Love the intro! How many people actually visit this church? Is this included in a local Tour?
A lot of people go there on Sundays. But on weekdays you pay to Access the place
@@AFRICANTIGRESS Thank you! I’m putting this on my bucket list.
tribalism/selfish is a big issue among Africans... We are learning everyday.. hope you visit other Ivory Coast cities before you leave .San Pedro is a nice place aswell
That is why Ghana & Nigeria kinda took the lead from us. Because we are focused on useless tribalism & xenophobia syndrome
@@lashaball790 🇨🇮💪😁 mais au va reprendre nostre Place de leader !
@@lashaball790 😥😥
@@lashaball790 It is every where, even here in Nigeria my brother. Those in power will develop their area by siteing more projects in their area than the others even those that are useless to that area. Example is Kastina, the president state, the numbers of projects sited within the 8 years of this administration is astronomical. Until each countries have visionary leaders that are not selfish or tribalistic but put the country frist before anybody then we will see a different Africa. We are not in competition with ourselves but use each other's strength to develop. Have you observed two drivers going to the same destination, when one leads the other follows at another point the one behind leads, that is giving one another the strength and encouragement to move keeping watch over one another.
@@lashaball790 Ivory Coast and Ghana are thesame economically, before the crises in Ivory Coast you were above Ghana economically for more than 4 decades , now Ivory Coast is posing to reclaim their second position as the biggest economy in west Africa.. There are more tribalism in Nigeria than any other country in subsahara, Nigeria has more than 500 languages IL,I can understand why they have tribalism issues...
The city looks beautiful regardless, the government can actually make people move there if they want.
AT the music is so beautiful and appropriate
Thank you 🤗❤️
Our grand parents dried, wash and cleaned the Calabash and used as a bowl for measuring rice or flour and sharing food
Nostalgic city in evocative songs of yore; with an apt name in the league of Timbuktu
I Love this video, AT you are truly a Great Explorer.
I was thinking, isn't it safer to ride in a taxi than on that motorcycle?
I always like you to take the safest route. 💛
He was quite familiar with the place and helpful
@@AFRICANTIGRESS Okay
Côte d'Ivoire is its official/actual name. Ivory Coast is just the English translation.
Green city and good road i love it ❤️
I’ve been learning so much, thanks for showing us!
You are welcome 🤗
Don't mind the empty aspect of this City. Just praise the fact that the roads are big ,green and clean. Generally Crouded city are noisy and dirty. Indeed it will be the city of the future when the infrastructures will be completed .
I love this city. If I was Ivorienne I'd live here. I don't like chaos
Thanks for showing us this city, its sooooo beautiful 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️
❤️❤️💃🏿
Who sang the song in the background?missed you😔😔🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
Maher Cissoko
I think your guide didn't show you the riches areas like quartier millionnaire, Riviera, Ebenezer, 227 logements...
Very beautiful and quiet city just as Capital should be.
THE TRUTH IS IVORY COAST 🇨🇮 IS ALL ABOUT ABIDJAN...IT IS ONE CITY COUNTRY
You’re wrong, if this city being less crowded than Abidjan make you feel that Ivory Coast 🇨🇮 is all about Abidjan then GOOD FOR YOU.
Pls go to bouake too
Lovely.
Wow! This an amazing content??
Can anybody help with the title and artist of this song in the background pls thanks and I really really appreciate your effort
Trying using the Shazam app.
It was the Largest b4, that was in the 80sth, GLORY DOM In Abuja is the Largest church in the world
He was a legend and still remains.
It's extraordinarily quiet for a city. A vanity project.
1:00, Italian guys call it LA CATTEDRALE NEL DESERTO (The cathedral in the desert) because of its big size in a town with less than a million inhabitants
Reak reason why Italian guys call it LA CATTEDRALE NEL DESERTO , it is just because they had the biggest church in the world in Italy , but when Ivorian built their Basilica Italian lost the title of owner of biggest church , it upset them and they start throwing stone at the Ivorian basilica . This is the real reason they nickname the basilica LA CATTEDRALE NEL DESERTO.
@@ndrikouadiodavid2383 le titre qu'ils donnent à la basilique sent la jalousie à plein nez smh
We do not care about what they think. We do not seek their validation.
The wide roads are just amazing to me but why is it the city so empty?
Not really empty, population of 310k in 2014 and around 500k now but the town is designed to bear millions people like Abidjan right now. So having half million versus 5 millions is what is making this city seems empty! 😂
It is a town made for schools. The biggest activities of the town is education. That was the purpose of the first president of the country. But little by little, certains things are being installed there.
Who sang this song
The town looks idle, boring and empty yet people are suffocating in Abidjan that hosts almost 25% of the total population in the country
It is like a big village
the first president did what he could but when he passes we gone through two wars so everything got centralise in Abidjan ,now ABIDJAN IS the capital city. it's sad
wow!! these roads are very wide .
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