BWIZA | BUJUMBURA, BURUNDI | CYCLING IN THE CITY(SE01E26)

BWIZA | BUJUMBURA, BURUNDI | CYCLING IN THE CITY(SE01E26)

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That's it today is the 15th tuesday  march 2022 we officially have six days left to go six days left before they  kick us off the road for good I'll be right back right after the  uh entry video do not go anywhere so what's up everybody this  is Not.So.Burundian here   coming back to you yet again with another video  and today we are going to be exploring Quartier Bwiza now I am currently on avenue de la  university this is uh this is where Bwiza ends   and begins as far as uh going and  coming to from the city is concerned visa begins here going all  the way to the left no rather   to the right is Bwiza to the left side is I don't know let's just call it town for now so I'm gonna go to the end of the uh road and then  take a right turn and explore Bwiza like this we're all trying to survive somehow got  a little entrepreneur thing going on seems like the whole street  is uh dedicated to designing sofas and beds and chairs and all that and as you can see Burundians  are fighting to their last breath   they're all going to leave the  city center on the 10th exactly   nobody's doing it earlier though we're all  sticking around to the very last minute   and I for one still have no idea whether or not I  am included in the new law honestly nobody knows   because even when you talk to policemen on the  road they're like uh well they didn't really   uh a policeman would say that according to the  speech they didn't really specify honestly they   would tell you that they don't know but it's  safe to assume that they included everyone and for me if sports cyclists are also include  included that would be a bummer because then I'd be asking like what did  we do how did we get involved in a whole thing but oh well what happens happens we'll see  how it evolves from there so I'm currently   in Bwiza right now exploring the very first  street hold on let me bring down the gears it's slightly a little better than uh obliensy but a lot of the houses are still super old really old but like I said in my last video though a  lot of folks here would be more than willing   to give up their compounds for the right price  but then one of my subscribers did point out   the fact that so many families in these  neighborhoods tend to be nuclear families I'm talking about a household  with five kids and above so for all the five children to actually agree   on a particular price as to which they  are to sell the plots would be a hassle but the neighborhood is slightly  a little neater compared to Buyenzi that it is it's more neat the one thing that Nyakabiga has over all these  neighborhoods is the installation of street lights so by the way once again guys I cannot  really continue on with the video without   appreciating everybody that  is currently subscribed   to the channel about a month ago we had  just made 1000 subscribers and currently   we are at 1.6 k subscribers making our way to  1.7 soon I'll be clocking 2000 subscribers   which is crazy especially given the  amount of time that it's all happening at now I cannot exactly tell where Bwiza ends and  begins as far as going up ahead is concerned so I might want to cut my travels short somewhere  just so I do not go beyond   a given jurisdiction but somebody told me  that if I was to look to my left and see um then that that would be the end of Bwiza so when I reached the next street oh is this guy  seriously carrying this whole thing on his own   she gonna break your back dude it's no it's not worth it long term so I'm just gonna have to make a  guess as to where I should stop from because I know that at a particular  point I would have gone beyond Bwiza and into Nyakabiga so for the sake  of the video and the length of the video I am going to stop on this street here let's dive in here it rained yesterday around uh this  time hopefully it doesn't rain today hopefully it doesn't rain  before I finish the video but I'm not gonna wish it not to rain because  everybody else needs it especially the farmers so is that a church love that mercy yep it's the church I mean if praying was the main  solution to all our problems   let me tell you something Africa we should  be the richest continent in the world because   I don't think anybody prays more than we  do good lord we have a number of churches and churches are popping up every freaking day well he's gonna have to park that bike somewhere  the 11th he will not be allowed on the road you know I still think there is a a um  a loophole in the law oh I think that uh   there is something that they are  withholding because they expect   almost everybody to leave and then later on  they will say that oh the law does not include   uh sports cyclists or people that own bicycles  for their own personal use I don't know it's a lot of meat right there people  getting ready for meat and beer   it's tuesday it's not even  the middle of the week yet   but tell me you're Burundian without  telling me you're Burundian, bear on tuesday ah but oh well man you know what sometimes I think  I can't really blame the majority of Burundians   for drinking a lot man I guess for most people  it's it's a way to cope man it's a way to cope they don't stop functioning because  they're drunk not at all they're not even   drunk most times I think Burundians generally  speaking have a high tolerance of uh alcohol as they drink that a long time now this pavement is a little unforgiving  it's a little forgiving rather   so I'm traveling a lot quicker we're reaching Avenue Peuple Murundi up ahead  and then we'll dive into another streets there goes another church two  churches on the same streets   and that's not even the end we're  probably going to count more than 10   in one neighborhood each one of them playing  music out loud when it's worship time this is a peak traffic time peak traffic time  because people coming coming from work going home there tends to be a lot of traffic on this street   it's currently around uh I think it's  about five five o'clock or four fifty this road is super messed up all right now this is my very first time exploring some  of these routes I've never been here before this is my first time ever Bwiza and I've never seen so many street dogs  in one place at once this is the first thank god they're not rabid instead of churches we have a couple of clinics   clinic clinics hospitals I can  never really tell the difference and I thought about something the other day with regards to the new law something that the  regular guy doesn't really think about because   you know they're not savvy they're not  uh politically savvy or rather they don't   think far enough so the thing is I was thinking   if urbanization is the cause for the banning  of the tuk-tuks motorcycles and bicycles what the new law basically means is at the very base of its meaning it just basically  means that as the city continues to expand   so will the borders of the new law eventually  they're going to push them far and far and far   to a point where they're not going  to be allowed anywhere essentially so let's say like at the moment on if you are on  your way to the manga the they will not be allowed   to cross the river there's a river out there it's  called uh in canusha I forget what it's called   but they cannot cross that line because it's  not as developed over there as a city center but now let's assume that the  development pushes on further towards that area it means they're going  to have to stretch it out even further   eventually the excuse is going to be  that you guys are not suited for the road   or the environment at all which will be crazy  now again I don't know where I should stop but um let's continue up ahead a little bit now a lot of you have asked me so many  times what kind of camera that I use   and uh I use the dji osmo  action the first generation but if you're looking to buy a camera  to be doing the same thing that I do   grab a grab the second gen at least  that camera has horizon leveling don't I don't have to explain just google  it google what horizon leveling means it's   a really cool feature to have on uh on an on an  action camera for vlogging and action whatever but horizon leveling is a really cool  feature and it has even longer battery   life because it comes with two battery packs  two battery packs that operate at the same time   there's a word for that simultaneously  yeah they basically complement each other so a lot of you have been wondering a couple of  you have asked me this question which is uh   you've been wondering whether  or not the channel will survive   after the law comes into effect  and all I can say is that uh and all I can say is look I have already  covered enough of uh Bujumbura I think there's going to be a couple of neighborhoods  that I haven't explored you know like there's another neighborhood  on the opposite side of town which is uh I haven't explored in Ngagara I haven't explored   Cibitoke haven't explored the, what's that neighborhood  that comes after Cibitoke on your way to Bubanza I forget what it's called but I've showed enough of uh so if anything it's probably time to move on to another  neighborhood move on to something different Burundi is not just Bujumbura so if we cannot explore here anymore we  just have to move to another neighborhood and I could also use a car   to explore the remaining neighborhoods  but then I don't know we'll figure it out so I wonder where this road leads because I  thought that every single one of these roads would come through to the tarmac  so what is going on here   okay we have an adventure  on our hands let's do this thank you all right so up ahead over there is the  main road but we're not gonna go there   there's no point let's just dive in this  way and explore more of the neighborhood Bwiza is a slightly neat compared to Buyenzi it's just you know and I keep saying a lot of the comments  that talk about uh the government doing something   about how bad these neighborhoods look and I look as f as much as as much as I  agree that the neighborhoods look bad I tend to look at things from a different  angle a lot of the times because when you see the pavement that's the government doing its job  the government laid down the pavement   they laid down the water drainage system  such as over there so they've done their part there's nothing they can do as far as the   individual buildings are concerned  because these buildings are not public   they are privately owned and so it is up to the  owners of the building to revitalize the uh the   the buildings or houses that they live in  the government cannot do anything about that and so if economically they are incapable of building better expanding or you know  remodeling their houses and the gov   there's really nothing that the government  can do and one subscriber pointed out that   a lot of the families here are actually rich but  the only problem is that they are nuclear families   families of uh with children with over five  to ten kids and so if one of you is well off   it's really hard for you to come back and decide  to remodel a house which you're not going to own   which you will eventually have  to share with your other siblings and so a lot of the people who are capable of   rebuilding these houses they choose to  build somewhere else so that they don't   have to deal with the sibling uh the sibling  coral is that the right word i think yeah let me do one more street and then is that tarmac up ahead oh yeah  that's tarmac now let's dive in here I don't know where the exact border is but basically I'm using this bank  up ahead as a reference to the end point of wizard so you can tell that uh life is  slightly a little hard on folks out here they're not that well off economically but so is  so are most people everywhere in the world but things will change as we keep growing economically as we keep bringing in new investments and the lots oh and by the way I read somewhere  on the blog somewhere that uh   Youtube is not playing ads in Rwanda anymore   and that is a major tragedy for all  of my Rwandese youtubers out there   especially those of you that um produce content  in Kinyarwanda that's uh that's a huge huge blow I read one guy who wrote that when ads were when  they when youtube stopped playing ads in ronda   it uh alienated about 60% of their  income from youtube and that's crazy and that's what I keep saying man if if youtube does not monetize your country you are limiting yourself if you  produce content in your local language I mean why do that anyways one of the main reasons  why we produce content on youtube is so you are   introduced to a wider audience  people from all over the world   currently and this is knowledge that is known by  everyone english dominates all over the world so   why would you use your local language but I get  it though I mean if you live in a country like um   well it's a country that I cannot mention and I  don't want to mention on my videos because of uh   particular reasons but it's a country that  is currently in conflict with another and   the letter begins with "R" and do not mention it  in the comments section because it will not pop   up yeah if you live in a country like that  it makes sense that you produce um content   in their language because it's a huge  country and youtube does monetize over there   you can almost solely depend on the income  coming from that country alone because it's huge but if you produce content  from small countries like ours   then it is absolutely so not beneficial that you  produce content in your local language okay I believe that um officially Bwiza ends on this road beyond this point it's uh Jabe I'm not mistaken so let's check it out that looks like a hotel it's an apartment complex and  they got something right going on and I saw a couple of rav4s that are hybrids for  those of you that don't know what a rav4 is it's   a car it's a toyota suv compact suv and I've seen  a couple of hybrids in Burundi and I'm like bro first of all we do not have the tech or the  expertise to deal with hybrids number one two hybrids are seriously dying out right now it's  either you are it's either you go all electric or   stick to gasoline or diesel hybrids are like there's no point you're  just basically limiting yourself   you might as well just go all electric but people buy these cars for some reason   I don't know if they take advice  before they make the purchase but oh well and then you got people that buy cars  from mazda you got people that buy cars from Alfa   Romeo and I'm like yo this is Burundi and not  just Burundi it's Africa those cars are like   one in a million what happens when the car  dies out what are you gonna do for spare parts and also a lot of those cars require special tools  which is even more of a headache for the mechanics   who are not expertise as far as dealing with  those cars is concerned so I don't know man and a lot of you keep purchasing these Bmw x3s  and the nissan juice like why why why why why like if you just take your time not even  more than 20 minutes really and just type in   A Nissan Juke is this black one here the  one you see right here that's the nissan juke like why would you purchase that car if you look it up on google and read  the blog posts you can tell already   that that car has a major defect the reason why   it was discontinued in Japan and they  are extremely cheap online these days   like you gotta read these things before you make  a purchase man and give up your hard earned money but people want to be unique for some reason and I can't fault them I wonder if the camera is  still recording right now usually shuts down if I  record for too long at once if it's off that's gonna really suck so I believe up ahead will be the end of Bwiza somebody told me that when you reach king star   king star petrol station which  is the one that we passed a while back well cutting into the street but let's continue up ahead and see what's up this is a workout every time I step out  to record these videos hell of a workout uh youtube oh I need to confirm if the camera  is still working really quick   because I'd hate to be wasting time and speech  and that would hurt bad hold on a second   I'll be right back we are still operational oh that's a depo I think I'm in Jabe for real but this is the main market  though and they call it uh   so I think the road that I'm on right  now separates Bwiza from Jabe I think and for time's sake and for the sake of uh me  not getting anything wrong I think I am safer   ending the video at the end of  this road and calling it a day I was actually supposed to upload a video   yesterday but you know I got lazy on monday  I got lazy on sunday and as a youtuber   I think you are allowed to slip off one  day you know just so you don't burn out but I have a very little time left and  so I'm gonna have to record about four   to five videos back to back until the 20th  and then seize all operations on the 20th and then begin to plan to move  in to to move to a different city I want to try and explore the  Gitega and then after that maybe and then go check out Muyinga  I think, all over. and then at some point someday I want to be  able to purchase a bike and nicely begin to   actually really nicely travel throughout  Burundi I mean explore the entire country seems like a Tuk Tuk just had an accident with a car   and that's happening on the very last days  that they that they kicked them off the road i mean this is really a bad time  to have an accident on the road   as a motorcycle rider or a tuk-tuk rider  because then you have no case at all   because they're kicking them off the road blaming  them for most of the accidents that happen so you don't want to still be causing accidents   at a time when you are trying to beg  the government for you know leeway all right guys I'm just going to take my guess  and assume that uh this is the end of Bwiza on   this road right here I'm currently this is uh the  avenue peuple murundi and up ahead is the tarmac that um separates Bwiza from Jabe   also I think somebody told me that that part over  there is the separation between Bwiza and Jabe and so I think I'm going to end the video here I must be in the 40 minute mark I'm not  sure or more I don't really know but everything to the left at this point   is definitely Jabe and everything to  the right is Bwiza that I know for sure kids are headed home from school and so that's it guys this is Not.So.Burundian here I'll see you guys next time peace out let me end the video right here and call it a day

2022-03-25 18:42

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