February 26, 1885: Division of Black Africa

On February 26, 1885, the Berlin Conference on the division of Black Africa ended. Its main result was to entrust the administration of the Congo to the King of the Belgians Leopold II, under the name of "Congo Independent State".

Considered by Europeans as a land without a master, the immense black continent was divided up like a common apple pie... without the inhabitants, any more than the apples, having their say...