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Before independence, the modern state of the congo was a colony of

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Belgium
King Leopold,who treated the colony as a personal estate. He pushed blacks into forced labor to collect rubber for him, as well as other valuable minerals. unlike other imperial powers, Leopold did not invest in the education, and infrastructure of the kingdom, and when he left, the kingdom had a very few elites, and intellectuals.
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