The Belgian Monarch claimed it as a buffer zone between German and British claims in Africa as a way to "Prevent fighting."
The imagined Alaska basically as a whole lot of land that is good for nothing. Although he got a good price in comparison, Alaska is huge and cost a lot of money. Just imagine what you think of the Arctic, then having the US pay one trillion dollars for it. Not great.
It's A: Ghana, Mali, then Songhai
