Congo Free State people

Mbuti pygmy featured in an anthropology exhibit in 1904

Swahili slave and ivory trader (c. 1832/7–1905)

Belgian officer and explorer of Central Africa (1863–1926)

Croatian explorer (1863–1918)

African American missionary for the Presbyterian Church (1865–1927)

Officer and founder of the Congo Railway Company (1849–1915)

Belgian explorer and missionary (1852–1896)

Belgian missionary (1858–1947)

Muhammad bin Khalfan bin Khamis al-Barwani () (born c. 1850, died 1919), commonly known as Rumaliza, was an Omani Swahili trader of slaves and ivory, active in Central and East Africa in the latter part of the nineteenth century. He was a member of the Arabian Barwani tribe. With the help of Tippu Tip, he became the Sultan of Ujiji. At one time, he dominated the trade of Tanganyika, before being defeated by Belgian forces under Baron Francis Dhanis in January 1894.

English travel writer

French missionary (1842–1927)

Belgian painter

British physician (1863-1930)

Belgian lawyer and academic (1869-1946)