Discover Monrovia, Poorest Capital City in the World DISCLAIMER : For Copyright Matters please Contact us directly.... Email Address emmastopten@gmail.com. Thanks Hello Displorers, welcome to another informative video presented to you by Displore and thanks for watching. In this video, we will take you on one of our city tours to discover the poorest city in the world, Monrovia. Monrovia is the capital city of the West African country of Liberia located on the Atlantic Coast at Cape Mesurado. With 29% of the total population of Liberia, Monrovia is the country's most populous city with a very liberating past. Monrovia's economy is shaped primarily by its harbour and its role as the location of Liberia's government offices.But this city is currently considered the poorest city in the world because of the low living standards as well as the pre-dominance of slums in the city. In this video, we shall look into the validity of this phenomenon as well as evidence of it but first, let us look into the background and creation of Monrovia. If you are new here, welcome, be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you don’t miss any of our videos. History In 1816, with the aim of establishing a self-sufficient colony for emancipated American slaves, something that had already been accomplished in Freetown, the first settlers arrived in Africa from the United States, under the auspices of the American Colonization Society. They landed at Sherbro Island in present-day Sierra Leone.On January 7th, 1822, a second ship rescued the settlers and took them to Cape Mesurado, establishing the settlement of Christopolis. In 1824, the city was renamed Monrovia after James Monroe, then President of the United States, who was a prominent supporter of the colony in sending freed Black slaves and ex-Caribbean slaves from the United States of America and Caribbean islands to Liberia and who saw it as preferable to emancipation in America.In 1845, Monrovia was the site of the constitutional convention held by the American Colonization Society which drafted the constitution that would two years later be the constitution of an independent and sovereign Republic of Liberia. At the beginning of the 20th century, Monrovia was divided into two parts: Monrovia proper, where the city's Americo-Liberian population resided and was reminiscent of the Southern United States in architecture; and Krutown, which was mainly inhabited by ethnic Krus but also Bassas, Grebos and other ethnicities. By 1926, ethnic groups from Liberia's interior began migrating to Monrovia in search of jobs which grewthe population of Monrovia to 10,000 by 1937 with 30 police department members. The city was severely damaged in the First and Second Liberian Civil Wars, notably during the siege of Monrovia, with many buildings damaged and nearly all the infrastructure destroyed. Major battles occurred between Samuel Doe's government and Prince Johnson's forces in 1990 and with the NPFL's assault on the city in 1992. A legacy of the war is a large population of homeless children and youths, either having been involved in the fighting or denied an education by it.In 2002, Leymah Gbowee organized the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace with local women praying and singing in a fish market in Monrovia. This movement helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003 and the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Liberia, the first African nation with a female president. But in 2014, disaster stroke again as the city was affected by the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak which was declared over on the 3rd September 2015. The Wettest World Capital City Under the Köppen climate classification, Monrovia features a tropical monsoon climate. During the course of the year Monrovia sees a copious amount of precipitation, averaging 4,624mm of rain per year. In fact, Monrovia is the wettest capital city in the world in terms of annual precipitation. The climate features a wet season and a dry season, but precipitation is seen even during the dry season and temperatures remain constant throughout the year averaging around 26.4 °C. Neighbourhood The city of Monrovia consists of several districts, spread across the Mesurado peninsula, with the greater Metropolitan area encircling the marshy Mesurado river's mouth. The historic downtown, centered on Broad Street, is at the very end of the peninsula, with the major market district, Waterside, immediately to the north, facing the city's large natural harbour.Northwest of Waterside is the large, low-income West Point community. To the west/southwest of downtown lies Mamba Point, traditionally the city's principal diplomatic quarter, and home to the Embassies of the United States and United Kingdom as well as the European Union Delegation. South of the city center is CapitolHill, where the major institutions of national government, including the Temple of Justice and the Executive Mansion, are located.

• published: 12 Oct 2020
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