DBWI: 24 Years Since Congolese Independence

The 30 year plan = Paternalist gone mad, if you ask me

If Congo had been given independence in say 1960, I don't think there's any doubt it would have still been a stable democracy. There's no reason to believe otherwise.
 
The Congo is much like the rest of Africa. Insane...

Yeah, it is pretty insane how rapid the economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa has been!

OOC: It's kind of sad that a successful Africa can't even exist in people's imaginations. :( Luckily I'm reviving "Guns of the Monomotapa" soon...
 
Well the Congo was the great African battleground of the cold war. Belgium invested in the education of its Congolese subjects way too late and reaped the rewards of it accordingly. The officers felt that the Congo needed a strongman to lash the Congo together as a unified whole, those who managed to get an education in Brussels generally became Lumumbists and advocated Nkrumahism, unfortunately for the Congo far more scholarships were granted to the university of Moscow which tended to resonate more in the countryside.
 
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