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African Congo Timeline

Afua Ofori-Darko & Sofia Lobo

Emancipation of the Congo

Berlin Conference

Congo is Made Whole Once Again

Kongo's First Catholic King

  • UN influence grew within Congo
  • Katanga's succession was resolved
  • January 14, 1963: country was made whole again
  • November 15, 1884
  • Germany calls Berlin Conference to discuss the recent events in the Congo.
  • Conference was called to do three things:
  • Discuss "freedom of trade in the basin and mouth of the Congo."
  • Discuss "freedom of navigation on the Congo and the Niger based on the same principles as applied for the Danube."
  • To make clear "the definition of the formalities to be observed when taking possession of new territory on the African coast."
  • June 30, 1960
  • The Congo is emancipated from Belgium.
  • Although the Belgians brought wealth to their colony, the Congolese were hoping to finally enjoy their own economic prosperity.
  • After conquest from foreign countries, the depression, the horrible colonial rule, WWI and WWII, the Congolese were ready for independence.
  • Other countries were ready to side with the Congolese in their fight for independence because of the problems of racism, the treatment of the native population as second-class citizens, and the lasting effects of WWII.
  • Nzinga Mbemba, the governor of Nsundi was baptized under the name Afonso I
  • Became the Kongo's first and most capable King
  • His relations with Europe opened opportunities
  • Adopted Catholicism as the State Religion
  • Lead to the destruction of the Kongo's people
  • Slavery expanded 10,000 slaves a year

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Congo Splits into Four Principal Fragments

1st Portuguese Caravan Reaches Mbanza Kongo

Portuguese Place King Alvaro I Into Power

Congo Free State becomes the Belgium Congo

  • Two years after the Portuguese helped Alvaro I into power, he again needed their help when a group of migrant warriors invaded Congo
  • Alvaro I and Alvaro II caused a decrease in power to Luanda, a market colony set up by Portuguese
  • Mbanza Kongo was the kingdom's wealthiest town
  • Expedition lead by Portuguese seaman Diogo Cão
  • Began Portuguese influence in the Kongo
  • King João II of Portugal sent missionaries to the Kongo
  • Mission wanted to embrace the native people with Catholicism
  • November 15, 1908
  • Congo Free State becomes the Belgium Congo.
  • The Belgium Congo is not very different from Leopold's Free State.
  • A large number of native Congolese were still enslaved.
  • The new Belgian Congo was still Leopoldian in thinking when it came to the monetary wealth of the Congo's resources.
  • February 1961
  • Congo splits into four principal fragments:
  • Katanga
  • South Kasai
  • Congo (Leopoldville)
  • Congo (Stanleyville)
  • This was a gradual improvement and trend toward reunification.
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