Answer: Belgium
Who colonized the Congo?

Colonization of the Congo basin refers to the European colonization of the Congo Basin of tropical Africa. It was the last part of the continent to be colonized. By the end of the 19th century the Basin had been carved up by European colonial powers into the Congo Free State the French Congo and the Portuguese Congo (modern Cabinda Province of Angola).

One by one the other great mysteries had been explored: • The coasts by Prince Henry the Navigator s Portuguese sailors in the 15th century. • The Blue Nile by James Bruce in 1773. • The remote upper Niger by Mungo Park in 1796.

One by one the other great mysteries had been explored: • The coasts by Prince Henry the Navigator s Portuguese sailors in the 15th century. • The Blue Nile by James Bruce in 1773. • The remote upper Niger by Mungo Park in 1796. • The vast Sahara by competitors Laing Caillié and Clapperton in the 1820s. • The fever-ridden mangroves of the lower Niger by the brothers Richard and John Lander in 1830. • Southern Africa and the Zambezi by Livingstone and John Clafton in the 1850s. • The upper Nile by Burton Speke and Baker in a succession of expeditions between 1857 and 1868. Though the Congo had been one of the first to be attempted it remained a mystery. Since the 15th century European explorers had sailed into the broad Congo estuary planning to fight their way up the falls and rapids that begin only 100 miles (160 km) inland and then travel up the river to its unknown source. All failed. The rapids and falls had they known it extended for 220 miles (350 km) inland and the terrain close by the river was impassable and remains so to this day. Repeated attempts to travel overland were repulsed with heavy casualties accidents conflicts with nati… Read more on Wikipedia

Discovered in the 1990s the earliest human remains in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been dated to approximately 90 000 years ago. The first real states such as the Kongo the Lunda the Luba and Kuba appeared south of the equatorial forest on the savannah from the 14th century onwards. The Kingdom of Kongocontrolled much of western and central Africa including what is now the western portion of the DR Congo between the 14th and the early 19th centuries. At its peak it had many as 500 …
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