Kwamitin Nazarin Upper Congo

An kafa Kwamitin Nazarin Ƙasar Kongo, ko kuma a cikin Faransanci Comité d'études du Haut-Congo, an kafa shi a cikin 1878  a madadin Leopold II, Sarkin Belgium, a matsayin wani ɓangare na Scramble for Africa.https://archives.africamuseum.be/agents/corporate_entities/170 African Museum: Comité d'études du Haut-Congo 

Bisa bukatar Leopold, wasu ma'aikatan banki da 'yan kasuwa a Belgium da kuma kasashen waje sun kafa kwamitin, wadanda suka ba da gudummawar kudade. Tun da farko Sarkin ya so daukar Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza a matsayin mai bincike, amma Faransawa suka dauke shi aiki.Pakenham, "The Scramble For Africa", page 60 An tuntubi Henry Morton Stanley maimakon; a cikin kaka 1878, ya amince ya yi aiki ga kwamitin na tsawon shekaru biyar, kuma a cikin Janairu 1879, ya gabatar wa kwamitin cikakken tsari na ci gaba da binciken Kongo. Kwamitin ya goyi bayan wannan aikin, kuma Stanley ya bar Antwerp a asirce a kan wani jirgin dakon kaya a watan Yuni 1879, ya isa a watan Yuli a bakin Kogin Kongo. An ba Stanley umarni don samun rangwamen yanki daga sarakunan ƙabilun gida .

 Manufa 
An kafa kwamitin, bisa ga dukkan alamu, tare da manufofin:

 Yi la'akari da kewayawar kogin Kongo ;
 Yi la'akari da yuwuwar kasuwancin Turai tare da mazauna yankin;
 Gano irin kuɗin shiga da kabilun za su iya cajin;
 Koyi yanayin kasuwancin gida;
 Bincika yiwuwar samar da layin dogo a yankin ruwan ruwa (yanzu ana kiransa Livingstone Falls ), da kayan da za a kai.

Duk da haka, Sarkin ya ba da umurni a asirce Stanley cewa: " Ba game da yankunan Belgian ba ne. Yana da game da kafa sabuwar ƙasa mai girma kamar yadda zai yiwu da kuma game da mulkinta. Ya kamata a bayyana a fili cewa a cikin wannan aikin ba za a iya yin la'akari da baiwa Negroes wani nau'i na siyasa ba. Wannan zai zama abin ba'a. Farar fata, waɗanda ke jagorantar mukamai, suna da ikon  ".

 Ƙaddara 
Ko da yake kwamitin ya maye gurbin kungiyar kasashen Afirka ta duniya ne kawai a shekarar 1878, Sarki Leopold na biyu ya sa aka rushe kwamitin a shekarar 1879, kuma duk wadanda ba Belgium masu zuba jari ba sun dawo da kudadensu.  Har yanzu Stanley ya yi imanin yana aiki da Kwamitin sama da shekara guda bayan haka.  An maye gurbinsa da Ƙungiyar Ƙasa ta Kongo, wadda ita ce Jamhuriyar Kongo ta maye gurbinta a 1885.

 Kara karantawa 

 Martin Ewans, " Tsarin Ta'addanci na Turai, Bala'in Afirka "

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