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Belgian Congo

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1. Belgian Congo - Noun

2. Belgian Congo - Proper noun

Meaning

a republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960

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After Malaysia fell to the Japanese, the Belgian Congo became a strategic supplier of rubber to the Allies. Source: Internet

But when Bogart won the Academy Award, which he truly coveted despite his well-advertised disdain for Hollywood, he said "It's a long way from the Belgian Congo to the stage of this theatre. Source: Internet

Initially, the Belgian Congo was administratively divided into four provinces: Léopoldville (or: Congo-Kasaï), Equateur, Orientale and Katanga, each presided over by a vice-Governor-general. Source: Internet

Career In 1951, after his graduation from Banaras, he traveled to the Belgian Congo (present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo ) with Newton Beal, a schoolteacher from Ohio he met in India. Source: Internet

The History of Central and Eastern Africa, Amy McKenna, 2011, pg. 9 In the 1890s the province was beleaguered by Cecil Rhodes from the South (Rhodes has colonized Northern Rhodesia) and the Belgian Congo which was owned by King Leopold II. Source: Internet

A good overview in: Dembour, Marie-Bénédicte (2000), Recalling the Belgian Congo, Conversations and Introspection, New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 17–44. Source: Internet

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