Antoine van Bilsen

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Antoine Van Bilsen was a Belgian professor who, in 1955, proposed a thirty-year plan for creating a self-sufficient independent state out of the Belgian Congo. The timetable called for a gradual change over 30 years, the time he estimated it would take to create an educated elite to administrate the new Congo. His plan never came to fruition after Congolese nationalists demanded immediate independence, leading to the Congo Crisis.