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During the second half of the XIX century, when Germany built its unity under the leadership of Bismarck, European powers shared the African Continent at the Berlin Conference in 1885. As a shareholder, Belgium had controlled Congo, which was almost eighty times bigger than itself, for along time, thanks to the colonial tools and methods. Belgium's administration in Congo stands as a case study for colonization applied in all over the Africa during the XIX and XX centuries. Western Countries who claimed that they were in Africa for the sake of civilization, ended up transporting the resources of Africa for more than one century and conducted a severe policy which has had impacts lasting up to today by imposing western languages and religion on Africans. It has been focused on following basics: as colonial tolls "language" and "religion", as colonial methods "mission", term of "civilization", "social" and "work order" in colonies, "education system" and the means of "transporting the colonies resources". In this research, it has been noted that European Colonial Powers entered African countries with the motto "civilization", but changed the language and religion of the Africans via mainly missions, enforced their power with the help of the social class and education system set in colonies, transported the natural resources of colonies and improved their own wealth. In this paper, it is concluded that while colonialism ended, the same tools and the methods are continued to be used under the theoretical name of "neo-colonialism". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]