OK then, if Congolese independence is delayed until the mid or late 1960s, how does this affect what Congo looks like to day? I imagine it would be possible for Congolese civil servants to be trained to replace the 10.000 Belgian ones. I also imagine that there will be several hundred Congolese graduated from Lovanium (the Congolese university founded in 1955 by Belgian Jesuits), rather than a dozen or so like in 1960, and who are able to lead the country.
That could have work, but the Company who controlled Free State Congo as Private property of King Leopold II,
commit so much atrocity under the Congolese (kidnapping, rape, hacking hands off, whipping until death) that Belgium Government was force in 1908,
To take Congo out hands of Leopold II and transformed it to Belgium Colony.
But the Congolese remember those atrocity, it beceme the main reason for Independence: get the Belgian out of Congo Fast!
one Question, Onkel willie
must Congo remain in one piece under Belgium control ?
The Belgium Industry try to keep Katanga under there Control, after Patrice Lumumba nationalize there factory, mines in Congo.
what let to Congo crisis and death of Patrice Lumumba and rise of Zaire under Mobutu.
but what if, Katanga remains a Belgian colony while rest Congo is independent ?