combined. it should be africa s wealthiest nation. but people forget, or never even knew, that the 20th century s first holocaust happened here when belgium s king leopold managed to bamboozle the world into giving him personal title to the congo. leopold s agents of whom the mythical kurtz was one, raided, slaughtered, mutilated and pressed into forced labor much of the population, in a bloodthirsty quest for first ivory and then rubber. when independence finally came, the belgians trashed what they could, and left behind a completely unprepared tribally divided and largely ungovernable land mass, filled with stuff that everybody in the world wanted. and things pretty much went downhill from there.
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