If you can make it in Congo, you can make it anywhere

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Consider having to hustle in a city that has poor infrastructure and almost invisible government, among other issues.

If you can make it in New York you can make it anywhere, or so goes a variation of the saying from Frank Sinatra’s song titledBut consider having to make it and hustle in a city that has poor infrastructure, almost invisible government, overpopulation, unbearable heat, and high crime levels.

DRC is flanked by the Congo River on the western border and Lake Kivu on the eastern border, large bodies of water that even power electricity generation. So much water, but the Congolese cannot drink water from a tap unless they have a death wish.Food shortages are not uncommon in DRC. Even though the country has so much arable land and good rains, it farms almost nothing and imports almost everything it consumes.

Because of decaying road network infrastructure, it’s even quicker and cheaper to transport goods from Kinshasa to Durban, more than 4,000km away, than it is from Kinshasa to Tanzania, a mere 3,000km. When asked why they were not at school during the day, they become shy and would not be drawn to speak on the subject of education. Survival comes first before education.

Some more adventurous types can be seen hanging on for dear life onto the sides of overloaded public taxis, whose conditions generally defy any sense of road safety.

 

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