In 1884, Germany makes Declaration of the Protectorates which made Southwest Africa, Togo, Cameroon, and East Africa, German colonies. The German colony of Cameroon was modelled after the government set up in the Congo.
From 1884-1885 the Conference of Berlin took place. As a direct result of the conference the Act of Berlin was conceived. This act established the groundrules for European occupation and development of territories. This conference also proclaimed that the Conventional Basin of the Congo as a free trade zone. Finally, the conference declared that any claimed territories in Africa must be explored and effectively occupied by the claimer.
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In 1880 (In France), the French government signed a treaty with the omnipotent African warrior tribe, The Makoko tribe of the Teke Kingdom (in the Congo) which established the region as a French Protectorate.
In 1882, the French parliment ratified the treaty the Makoko, creating the French Congo. The approximate regions were where the present day Gabon is, to the People's Republic of the Congo. Brazza was the commissioner of the colony and told to take possesion of the ill-defined territory in the name of France.
