A friend of Henry Morton Stanley, he used Stanley to help him lay claim to the territory he called Congo.

He denied being the mastermind behind the rebel army of Laurent Kabila in the former Zaire, now called Congo.

Younger generation neo soul artist Amel Larrieux also wrote a song based on the Congo Square called "Congo" on her 2004 album Bravebird.

Powell, Lawrence N. "Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo", Southern Spaces, 17 January 2012.

Another way they were often distinguished during the 1960s, such as in newspaper articles, was that "Congo-Léopoldville" was called "The Congo" and "Congo-Brazzaville" was called simply "Congo".

When the center opened in 1979, its primary focus was the study of the connection between sexually transmitted diseases and what scientists call Africa's "infertility belt" - Gabon, southern Cameroon and northern Congo.

But for everyone else in this portion of the galaxy, the place was called Congo.

Yet in the last seven months Marthe Nyarwango walked 1,200 miles across Zaire, the former Belgian colony now called Congo.

It used to be called Congo, then it became Zaire and now it is known as the Democratic Republic of Congo.

His mother had decides to send him to Europe to make his tuition while their parents still remain in Zaire (which later be called Congo in 1997).