He formed a band, Victoria Kin, named after Victoria Brazza, a rival in the French Congo (today's Republic of Congo-Brazzaville).
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Congo Brazzaville was named after the Congo River and the 19th century French explorer, Pierre Brazza, the first European to reach this part of the great African waterway.
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Pierre Brazza's rival, the British explorer Henry Morton Stanley, mythologised through his search for Livingstone, reached the far shore, establishing a trading post that was to become the town of Leopoldville.