Fancy high-end buildings, magnificent mansions, expensive sports cars, and trendy people were often-common sights in affluent neighborhoods of Kinshasa like Gombe. It was to the point that if foreigners arrived in that part of the city for the first time, their first thought would be, "I'm in one of the trendiest cities in Africa." But if they were to take a brief tour around and move deeper into Kinshasa, they would immediately experience a swift change in opinions. That was because they would see the many slums housing one of the world's most impoverished populations in the same trendy city. They would be surprised by the enormous difference in the standard of living between the two groups of people living only a matter of kilometers from each other.
The DRC was never a french colony. At first it was the Free state of the Congo private property of king Leopold II of Belgium. After many massacres and scandals the Belgian goverment bought it and it became a colony.
Fancy high-end buildings, magnificent mansions, expensive sports cars, and trendy people were often-common sights in affluent neighborhoods of Kinshasa like Gombe. It was to the point that if foreigners arrived in that part of the city for the first time, their first thought would be, "I'm in one of the trendiest cities in Africa." But if they were to take a brief tour around and move deeper into Kinshasa, they would immediately experience a swift change in opinions. That was because they would see the many slums housing one of the world's most impoverished populations in the same trendy city. They would be surprised by the enormous difference in the standard of living between the two groups of people living only a matter of kilometers from each other.
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