African Entrepreneurship Record

Secondly, Mombasa's business is more important than Dar es Salaam's at present. After all, it is the bridgehead where East Africa and Europe and Asia meet, so many foreign trade businesses and exchange centers are set up in Mombasa.

Now, with the progress of the European war, many businesses originally in the hands of European powers have naturally transferred to East Africa, making Mombasa the most important information intersection on the east coast of East Africa.

Thanks to the advancement of East African communication technology and the growth of the country's telecommunications industry, the popularization of telegraphs and telephones, orders placed in Mombasa can be quickly sent to the whole of East Africa, and it is not necessary to go to a certain city to complete business tasks.

Therefore, in addition to a large number of exchanges and exchange centers, Mombasa also has many sites established by large East African companies, or simply the headquarters.

Therefore, in order not to disrupt the current status of Mombasa, the East African government will carefully consider and place the exhibition in the urban circle of Dar es Salaam.

This actually explains to a certain extent the relative decline of Dar es Salaam's status among East African cities. This is actually easy to understand. After the rise of a number of East Coast port cities such as Beira, Maputo, New Hamburg Port, and Pemba, Dar es Salaam will inevitably compete with it.

After all, Dar es Salaam is not Shanghai, which has the leading position of the Yangtze River, the golden waterway, and those East African rising stars are not inferior to Dar es Salaam in terms of railway and road transportation.

Mombasa is different. It can be said that it has no competitors at all. So far, the dividends of the northern railway are still firmly in the hands of Mombasa.

Of course, the last point is that the reason for choosing the Dar es Salaam city circle as the venue for the exhibition is that Dar es Salaam is enough. Today, Dar es Salaam is still the largest city in East Africa, and its comprehensive strength is still the strongest. There are no shortcomings in other aspects, which is enough to deal with the participants from participating countries.

At least this can be seen from the discussion of Brazilian exhibitors.

Yodel continued to comment: "I noticed a lot of details, such as the roads in Dar es Salaam, which are obviously smoother. Although this may be related to the performance of the car, you see, the roads in East Africa are completely paved with black asphalt, while only a few urban roads in Rio de Janeiro have this treatment."

"And the characteristics of East African road design are very obvious. There are various lines and special patterns on the asphalt road surface. I think they must have special purposes."

At this point, Yodel began to ask the East African driver who was driving in German. He had been talking to his colleagues in Portuguese before. The East African driver, an old native of Dar es Salaam, naturally could not participate, after all, he could not understand.

Because he had immigrated to Brazil for too long, Yodel's German was obviously not fluent, and he communicated with the East African driver in a stumbling manner.

"Mr. Driver, what's your name?"

"Hello, sir, can you call me Fokailini? What can I do for you?"

"Mr. Fokailini, I just have a small question to ask. I noticed that there are many patterns and lines on the roads in East Africa, some painted on the road surface, and some used on warning signs. Is this a unified traffic rule?"

Fokailini said: "Yes, white paint divides the road. The most basic function is to differentiate the road. For example, we are now in the inner lane. Vehicles in the same lane are traveling in the same direction. Of course, it also has instructions and warning functions, such as solid lines cannot change lanes, but dashed areas can..."

These natural traffic rules were completed under the guidance of Ernst. In fact, the early traffic in East Africa was not as strict as it is today.

After all, there were not many cars in East Africa, and the speed of vehicles such as horse-drawn carriages was not fast, so complex traffic rules were not needed. It was not until the 1990s when the number of vehicles in East Africa increased that the East African government began to improve and implement more stringent road traffic rules.

After Yodel translated these knowledge points into Portuguese and shared them with his colleagues, he once again aroused unanimous praise from Brazilians.

As an experienced driver, Fukerini particularly likes the feeling of being praised by foreign friends. Now he has Yodel, who can speak German, as an interpreter.

His chatterbox was completely opened, and he began to introduce many details of East Africa bit by bit.

"The green belts in the middle and on both sides of the road, according to foreign tourists or businessmen I have met, seem to be only in East Africa. The role of these green belts, in addition to beautifying the environment, can also eliminate certain noise and dust. Of course, the role is definitely limited, but I believe it is so."

"If you touch these green belts, you can see that there is a certain amount of dust adsorbed on their leaves before the sprinkler truck waters them."

"Our roads in East Africa use the latest traffic light system. They all use electricity as a source of energy and are arranged at large and small intersections or other complex sections in Dar es Salaam..."

The Brazilians were fascinated by Fukerini's words. In Fukerini's words, anyone can feel the power of East Africa's transportation system, which embodies the advantages of order, fairness and humanity.

Of course, they also throw out some new questions from time to time.

"Mr. Fokkerini, are all the streets in Dar es Salaam so clean?"

"Of course, we in East Africa attach great importance to sanitation, not only now, but also dating back to my grandfather's time."

"My grandfather told me that East Africa was not safe in the early days. Many people had a weak sense of hygiene at that time, but the government had already begun to enforce personal and public hygiene, and the effect was very significant."

"I think everyone has heard that Africa is a cursed continent, with all kinds of tropical diseases rampant. This is how we in East Africa have greatly compressed the spread of viruses in East Africa. Now East Africa is even safer than many mid- and high-latitude areas."

If Fukerini's words were said to other people, it would not be easy to resonate, but Brazilians are different.

Brazil's latitude is not much different from that of East Africa, and the climate of the two countries can be said to be very similar, so some of the problems in East Africa are also applicable to Brazil.

And there is no doubt that Brazil's poor medical and health systems, as well as the rampant tropical diseases, are probably one of the reasons for Brazil's unsatisfactory population growth and population concentration in large cities.

After all, imagine that a country like Brazil, with a small population, vast land and sparse population, and unable to concentrate national power to develop the inland through administrative means like East Africa in the past, is indeed difficult to develop.

Expecting private enterprises to bring hundreds of employees to the inland to open up wasteland is simply a matter of life and death. That is to say, Brazil had enough Indians in the early days, and later there were enough blacks to exploit, otherwise Brazil might not even have accumulated today's wealth.

After all, Brazil abolished slavery at the end of the 19th century, and at that time, East Africa's effective development of land had reached millions of square kilometers. Now the economy and population in the west have also become a trend, which is the superiority of East Africa's system.

Of course, East Africa's consumption of black slaves is obviously also very prominent, but it may not be more than Brazil's consumption. After all, black people in Brazil have been updated for several generations and are on the path of sustainable development, while East Africa does not pay much attention to "sustainable development" and adopts the means of "draining the pond to catch fish".

In this regard, the black group in Brazil is both lucky and unfortunate compared to their East African "fellows". At least Brazil did not kill them all, but the treatment of black people in East Africa and Brazil is obviously not as good as that in the United States. Although American blacks are discriminated against by society, they have gained freedom in the middle of the last century. Now Brazilian blacks have just been liberated and their social status is not as good as that of American blacks.

Of course, Fukerini would not reveal this "stain" to international friends, so in Fukerini's words, East Africa has almost no shortcomings, only advantages.

And many Brazilians also believe it. After all, the facts are here, and people are more willing to believe what they see. East Africa shows a civilized side, so East Africa is more civilized, richer, and more powerful than Brazil. It is simply an "ideal country".