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HISTORY. When the explorer Henry Stanley reached the mouth of the Congo in 1877, King Leopold II of the Belgians took the lead in exploring and exploiting the Congo Basin. The Berlin Conference of 1884–85 recognized King Leopold II as the sovereign head of the Congo Free State.
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Atlas Général du Congo. Académie Royale, Brussels
Gran, G., Zaïre: The Political Economy of Underdevelopment. New York, 1979
Leslie, W. J., Zaïre: Continuity and Political Change in an Oppressive State. Boulder (CO), 1993
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Young, C. and Turner, T., The Rise and Decline of the Zairian State. Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1985
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Hunter, B. (1995). Zaïre. In: Hunter, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271241_196
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