The First Five-Year Plan focused on western development. Beginning in 1900, East Africa significantly increased its investment in western towns, mines, and agriculture. In particular, cities such as Cabinda, Luanda, Benguela, Kinshasa, and Bangui received far more substantial policy support than the all thunder and no rain of the Dar es Salaam city metropolitan area, or the Grand Mombasa Plan independently financed by Eastern Province.
"During the First Five-Year Plan, more than two hundred new towns will be established in the west, especially in the vacuum zone between the coast and the central region—in places such as Kaisai Province, Lunda Province, and Okavango Province. Large numbers of people are planned to be brought in to settle and work there."
"At the same time, the populations of key cities such as Cabinda and Luanda will be supplemented. During the First Five-Year Plan, at least two emerging western cities with populations exceeding five hundred thousand will be built, to balance Dar es Salaam city and Mombasa city in the east."
There was no need to say it aloud: those two cities were certainly Luanda and Cabinda. Cabinda corresponded to Mombasa city, while Luanda corresponded to Dar es Salaam city.
East Africa's development of its new west could be compared to America's development of the West Coast, or Russia's development of the Far East. Of course, western East Africa possessed natural conditions superior to those of the American West, while Russia had invested heavily in developing and building the Far East Empire, yet in practice it had been difficult to achieve results.
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