In this thread we will discuss modern (1885-now) Congolese history.

it such a fucking tragedy from start to finish.


what if lumumba had lived though?

>>3240318
But if Lumumba had lived then we wouldn't have documentaries and news stories about how fascinatingly shit that country is.

And yeah Congolese history is the true 'and then it got worse' story.

>>3240318
>be president of the fucking Congo
>reject federalism and demand a unitary state

fucking why

>>3240197
Well no it was never a legitimate state. It's funny you post this, when /his/ first started I went by a trip of Katanga on Congolese/African political threads but quite frankly it would just be a Belgian proxy state in the copper belt.

>>3240197
the ONLY chance for any Congolese to have a decent standard of living is a glorified/politicised Belgian mining company

>>3240449
>>3240349
Yes it would have been a Belgian puppet but perhaps the dreams of the evolues would be realized with a pro-Western, civilized state.

>>3240488
It would have ended up like Gabon where France okays a dictator and they get oil in return.

>>3240197
Friendly reminder that the africans never deserved their own countries and everyone would have been better off without decolonization.

>>3240342
It worked with Indonesia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Indonesia