africa

Let's say disease and revolts are what kills them. Europeans are crueler when the Natives attempt to revolt and become independent. What would that do to Africa today? Would Africa be a wealthier continent? How resentful would the African nations be to the Europeans today?

_____ "And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had spoken unto Moses." -Exodus 9:12 _____ The seder didn’t start until late, and so Anna slept, her best dress on. She was lucky - she wasn’t like so many other children on the ship. When she had...

The United Republic of South Africa In 1906 the British Empire decided to begin merging its colonies in certain parts of the world into bigger “mega colonies.” The idea was that it’d be easier for the UK to oversee their economies due to a larger surveillance program resulting from this idea...

Even today Africa produces only 5% of the world’s cane sugar, with the bulk of production in East and South Africa, although there is production in West Africa. Is there something to do with soil? Since climate wise tropical West Africa seem ideal. Had sugar been available as a commercial...

With a POD no earlier than 1820, how can you get 1 or more of the following countries to acquire (by conquest, treaty, or purchase) new territories during the Scramble for Africa (or an alternate scramble occurring some time in the 1870s-1910s)? Colonial empires or potential colonial empires...

In some earlier threads I'd made discussing early discovery of sandalwood in Oceania and Aborigine equivalents to the Native American horse culture developing, other posters suggested that the location of OTL's Perth would have made a useful colony for the Dutch, and that it could have been a...

What if Mansa Musa and Mali had more accumulated wealth than it in reality did, and it was actually worth more than a trillion modern-day dollars, and Mansa Musa was the first Trillionaire in history. I haven't seen many Trillionare timelines, so I wanted to know what this would do. Would his...

So, ladies and gentlemen, as you might know, in 1967 Tshombe's jet aircraft was hijacked by his own bodyguard Francis Bodenan. I've seen some people claiming that Bodenan was recruited by the CIA, but that is of little regard here. Tshombe was behind the bars in Algiers, dying there. Some claim...

By becoming independent, I mean in the process of decolonization where colonies, self-governing or not eventually become fully independent to take care of themselves.

What sort of variables, precedents, or PoD's would be required for Portugal to gain a set of colonies connecting Angola to Mozambique, during the Scramble for Africa?

If anyone remembers, years ago I started a TL called 'Never Setting Sun' which involved Canada becoming far more important than OTL within the scope of the British Empire. I had wanted to somewhat parallel the Eastern and Western Roman Empires, but the TL got away from me and it simply wasn't...

Is it possible for the french, with a PoD after 1848 and before 1900, to acquire the Sudan region, and possibly an outlet to the Red Sea? I'm under the impression that they were not able to colonise Egypt due to Britain's vested interest in controlling communications with India, but i still...

Was H.G.Wells' pioneering novel "The Time Machine" inspired by steam-powered transportation? Consider that in Wells' time, England was considered the most technologically-advanced country on the planet. An Englishman could board a steam-powered train and be whisked to the coast within a day...

In OTL, the atrocities of the Congo Free State were documented brought to light by European missionaries. This resulted in the Belgian government taking the colony from King Leopold is which improved the conditions that the Congolese natives were living under. But how different would Congo be...

So let’s say that during and before 1821: 1). The ACS purchases Sierra Leone from Britian, and annexes modern-day Guinea, Guinea-Basseu, Senegal, Ivory Coast, and Gambia which all get incorporated into Liberia. 2). A much larger number of black freedman from North America, the Caribbean, and...

During the Black Death, Africa seems to be the only continent that wasn’t affected by the plague even though they had contact with Arab(and about a century later, European) traders who’s continents had been affected. So how would Africa be different if somehow, the plague had reached Africa via...

In Cape Colony, smallpox epidemics ravaged the Khoisan tribes, but didn’t affect the Bantu to the same extent. Why is this?

What if the British failed to take most of India, or alternatively lost India in the Sepoy Rebellion; furthermore the British expand minimally in Africa, only having South Africa, Sierra Leone, and loose influence over Egypt. They might sell their smaller ports in Africa to other powers...

First point, is it generally agreed that preventing the rise of Islam* would lead to significantly less demand for slaves over the next millenia or so, specifically from Eastern Europe and East (and Central?) Africa? If so, then what would be the dmographic and geopolitical changes to those...

Sir George Grey was governor of the british Cape Colony from 1854 to 1861. One of his notable opinions was that whites residing in both the Cape and the Boer Republics were vulnerable to "african savagery and attacks". He derised a plan to unify the Cape Colony and the Boer Republics into a...