AHC: Corporate Congo

With a PoD any time after 1830, is it possible to have most of the area currently occupied by the Democratic Republic of the Congo under the rule of a private corporation*? The rule doesn't necessarily have to last up to the present day.

*Preferably not a dummy corporation ruled by a monarch, like Leopold's Congo IOTL.
 
I suppose some kind of chartered company would work. The difference to OTL would be by degree, though. It couldn't be based in any of the big countries or they'd control it, so it would have to come from some minor player. Belgium is as good a choice as any. Maybe Denmark, Sweden, or one of the Italian states, but why would they want it?

A favourite idea of mine is to have the Congo be 'Liberianised', turned over to a philanthropic enterprise dedicated to settling free blacks from the USA in their 'homeland'.
 
With a PoD any time after 1830, is it possible to have most of the area currently occupied by the Democratic Republic of the Congo under the rule of a private corporation*? The rule doesn't necessarily have to last up to the present day.

*Preferably not a dummy corporation ruled by a monarch, like Leopold's Congo IOTL.

Make the Association internationale du Congo bankrupt as IOTL and make Belgium not accept the burden of managing the Congo Free State; Leopold II would then have to sell his shares to other companies, who would then keep exploiting Congo's natural wealth.
 
Make the Association internationale du Congo bankrupt as IOTL and make Belgium not accept the burden of managing the Congo Free State; Leopold II would then have to sell his shares to other companies, who would then keep exploiting Congo's natural wealth.

No, he would sell to France as per previous agreements.
 
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