Posted on 07/04/2012 7:09:32 AM PDT by traumer
Nova Cidade de Kilamba has 750 eight-storey blocks of apartments But it has no residents, and the £75,000 cost is too much for slum-dwellers Fears the £2.2billion project, built in three years, could lay empty for years Just a fraction of the billions China has poured into Africa in recent years
It was supposed to be a state-of-the-art city for 500,000 - but eerie footage shows how a Chinese-built urbanisation is at risk of becoming Africa's first 'ghost town'.
Constructed on the outskirts of Angola's capital city Luanda, Nova Cidade de Kilamba has 750 eight-storey blocks of flats, a dozen schools and more than 100 shop units.
But, crucially, it has no residents, and many of the nearby slum-dwellers cannot afford the £75,000 price-tag to move in.
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African central planning meets Chinese central planning. Result: double the economic inefficiency.
Yep ---
I wonder if they were built with that notorious Chinese sheetrock???
Yet they use their own people almost exclusively, saying Africans are lazy or violent.
from Wiki
Ethnic groups (2000) 36% Ovimbundu
25% Ambundu
13% Bakongo
22% other Africans
2% Mestiço
1% Chinese
1% European
How very attractive. The modern Chinese have such delightful taste.
It almost looks like Section 8 Project housing.
Yes, in the "before" picture...
SimCity Professional Edition?
The chinese just need a little lebensraum.
I agree. China needs Africa's resources. China does not need the Africans. Do not be surprised when China starts playing Cowboys and Africans.
When I first saw the pics, my first thought was “Hmmm, interlocking fields of fire”.
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