How We Gain Independence From Belgium

Listen here little Billy. Let me tell you how we gained our independence 20 years ago from Belgium in 1960, and how it still impacts our lives today. As well as how I, Joseph Kasavubu, your grandfather helped to liberate our country. Let me start with how we gained our independence in the first place. It all started in the late 1880’s when King Leopold II took personal control of us for his own gains.
Of course none of us Congolese were happy when Leopold took control of us, especially because he ruthlessly enslaved us and used us to exploit our own resources for his wealth. Which we absolutely could not stand for, and after around 25 hard years of this treatment all of us Congolese banded together to give him massive pressure. This eventually leaded to him handing control of the Congo to the Belgian government which wasn’t at all what we wanted! But was still a bit better than being ruled by that heartless man.
Not that much happened except for small uproars here and there until 1926 in Brazzaville, one of the main cities back then, when thousands of laborers died building a railroad that
I was so happy when this finally happened because as a teacher and having the position of chief clerk, the highest position possible for a Congole to have in the Belgian colonial administration I felt that we might finally be able to regain complete control of our great country. It’s not that I hated the Belgians for taking control of us, I just believe, and rightly so, that us Congolese were people too and didn't deserve the treatment they gave us just because of our different skin color. I believe that they were interested in our resources so they forcibly took them which was wrong of them, yet I still didn’t hate them, I just felt they needed to leave our country and me along with many of my colleagues resented their control over