What if, for whatever reason, Cecil Rhodes never becomes an important or significant figure in South African/British African history. With no Cecil Rhodes, will Britain still end up controlling so much of South and East Africa like in OTL and have the Cape to Cairo ambition or will the Portuguese and Germans step in to fill the vacuum?
I'm mostly thinking about the 'Pink Map' situation with Portugal in OTL Angola, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique because in the timeline I'm doing the British 1890 Ultimatum never happens (and Cecil Rhodes seemed to have quite a bit to do with this). Also in this timeline WWI is butterflied away and Germany will become quite a big power in Europe so with no Cecil Rhodes, will Germany end up having a greater influence in Africa?
This is a completely different topic but I may as well ask it at the same time...
In the same timeline I'm doing, pied-noirs end up being the majority in Northern Algeria due to mass immigration into Algeria, yet the southern Saharan part of Algerian has almost no pied-noir people and is largely Arab or Berber. When decolonisation comes around, will France keep northern Algeria or will they bite the bullet and integrate the whole of Algeria into 'la Métropole?'
I'm mostly thinking about the 'Pink Map' situation with Portugal in OTL Angola, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique because in the timeline I'm doing the British 1890 Ultimatum never happens (and Cecil Rhodes seemed to have quite a bit to do with this). Also in this timeline WWI is butterflied away and Germany will become quite a big power in Europe so with no Cecil Rhodes, will Germany end up having a greater influence in Africa?
This is a completely different topic but I may as well ask it at the same time...
In the same timeline I'm doing, pied-noirs end up being the majority in Northern Algeria due to mass immigration into Algeria, yet the southern Saharan part of Algerian has almost no pied-noir people and is largely Arab or Berber. When decolonisation comes around, will France keep northern Algeria or will they bite the bullet and integrate the whole of Algeria into 'la Métropole?'
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