out a state of his own he formed an alliance with tipu tip to conquer the kazembi kingdom and kill their king umwatika zembi viii he then went on to conquer more villages and in each of the conquered villages he'd take for himself a wife in the end he had over NUMBER_TOKEN wives and these allowed him to form alliances have a hostage should a rebellion come and a permanent spy working against their own families plus as he was in the centre of africa he traded weapons with the ovum bundu and portuguese in the west and the arabs in the east then there was yet another new arrival in the region and this was marambo whose name literally means corpses and he was a nyam wheezy warlord that stanley called the african bonaparte now murambo had learned a lot from shakazulu as the zulu's expansions in the south push people north and they eventually revealed tactics and information to marambo then using these tactics as well as modern firearms he created a formidable army and also a state for himself this again was mainly based on the slave and ivory trade but he would later die in NUMBER_TOKEN and his state would disintegrate so there were three powerful warlords decimating the interior of congo and tanzania the states in angola zambia and congo were all fighting one another the belgians and stanley had arrived on the coast and then the french also arrived nearby they arrived just to the north of the congo river where the luango kingdom ruled now they were once probably under the control of the nearby kingdom of congo but had since broken free the luango kingdom were famed cloth producers and exported a great deal to the europeans while their neighbours the anziku kingdom produced a great deal of metal and metal was so important to the anziku kingdom that it was not uncommon for the techy people who lived there to choose a blacksmith as their chief in times of a succession crisis while the italian-born pierre savagnian de braza began to explore this region largely using his own funds then in the NUMBER_TOKENs he arrived in the anziku kingdom and met king elo the first who was willing to put his kingdom under the protection of the french in exchange for the increased trade thus france and belgium had within months of one another set themselves up on different sides of the congo river king ilo the first died shortly after making the agreement but his wife ngali foru stayed close with the french and would remain so for many years she was born in the NUMBER_TOKENs but lived into her NUMBER_TOKENs so she died in NUMBER_TOKEN just a couple years before the republic of congo would get their independence now this puts the whole colonization of africa into perspective as a woman who was old enough to agree to fall under french protection encouraged her people to fight in two world wars met charles de gaulle and was almost there when the french left anyway brazil secured a bit of land and created an outpost named brazerville while nearby stanley created leopoldville the two men would enter into a race in building up their towns in order to become the dominant trading hub while browser himself didn't stay there he left behind a senegalese volunteer
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