Recent content by rebeu

Yes! And France needs her. Independent Guyanne française butterflies this and maybe gay marriage away in France. Not awesome.

Really possible, I have many ideas that shake up the world as we know yet make it recognizable. It's these crucial years leading up to the 1880's and figuring out the colonial situation to make it last that are the hardest but most important to shake-out. Any chance a Zanzibar that had...

She's too busy being kick-ass in France :rolleyes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sSY3GomeP0 Search to learn more, #TeamTaubira

Let's see this continued, I was really enjoying it

Especially in face of a more united native society in places like Libya or some of the Pacific Islands? THIS is the point I was trying to make earlier, as well as a reminder to not just dismiss natives when discussing colonies that weren't, let alone potential colonies of a multinational...

That's something I haven't thought of. I liked the idea of a Zanzibari Katanga to see a more stable power controlling its minerals. (Nuclear Zanzibar à la South Africa or India i.e. uranium produce par rapport SA and indigenous intelligence par rapport India with Britain perhaps playing the role...

Again, I must epmhasise the relations between the Al Sabah and Al Saud played a significant role in the latter's activating their special relationship with the U.S. à la military assistance for Kuwait

I love how discussing colonial powers that weren't just brush aside natives as complacent or "will convert." And yet most the colonial empires sans parts of Africa and the "old colonies" in the New World remain very much "modern" versions of their prior selves: that is Muslim or Hindu, and very...

If anyone has other versions of precolonial Africa on the eve of the Berlin Conference that would be great. One with Somali sultanates and a more intricate detail of East Africa would be fantastic. Honestly, I've been developing the TL for a Zanzibar that expands into Katanga and inland at...

How about a return to precolonial lack of Arab/Berber dichotomy to begin with:rolleyes:

No, the dynastic split of the Al Busaid into separate sultanates for Muscat and Oman on the Arabian Peninsula for one brother and Zanzibar and the East African mainland for the other happened before the point of divergence. As per OTL, though, the centuries-established Arab elite in Zanzibar do...

Part IV Slave market in Zanzibar December 14, celebrated today as Emancipation Day, actually celebrates the sultanic decree on the first day of Eid Al Fitr following the conclusion of 1871’s Ramadan which not only: 1) manumitted all the slaves of the sultanic household, 2) introduced a...

Great lead for my next, shorter update which was going to address the Indian diaspora. While the majority of East Africa's Indians arrived for the British railway projects at the end of the century in British Kenya, you're right there is a historically well-established South Asian community in...

Is it possible to know how I could find this standard map, but specifically depicting the situation in the Great Lakes region of east Africa from around slightly before German colonisation? Cheers

Part III Sayyid Khalifa bin Said bin Sultan Al Busaid, Brother of Sultan Majid bin Said bin Sultan and Sultan Bargash bin Said bin Sultan Governor of Rovuma region, 1871-1885 The ascension of Sultan Barghash I bin Said bin Sultan Al Busaid is a major turning point in modern Zanzibari history...