9. Summary of pre-colonial Congo and the rise of foreign interest

In this episode we revisit the past before looking at the lands of
the Kingdom of the Kongo at the end of the 19th Century. 
Outside of the Congo Stanley's journey, and details of the River
Congo basin, spread through the world.  Some saw this as an
opportunity to do good, as they saw it, but others saw a commercial
opportunities... The chiefs of the Western Congo reacted
skeptically as missionaries and traders arrived up river. 
 Whist these arrived in greater numbers a distant European
King began to plot..