zulu

one state that's always fascinated me is the Zulu empire, a small state on the eastern cape of good hope but one able to inflict one of Britain's most humiliating defeats in the 19th century. However, it was a small kingdom with limited access to more modern weapons and was thusly annexed into...

This is the beginning of my 'What If?' Timeline I mentioned in an earlier post. An ATL where the Rozvi (undoubtedly the largest native empire in southern Africa at the time) did not fall to civil war, and was actually able to defeat the waves of Nguni tribes flooding over the Limpopo, with...

I've often heard the anecdote that a lot of researchers that study languages that contain clicks quickly find that incorporating clicks into their day-to-day language feels natural, and indeed, clicks do have meanings in English, though they are not used as consonants and more of connectors...

Your challenge is to have the Zulu do substantially better than they did IOTL.

IOTL, European travelers to the Zulu Kingdom demonstrated guns and writing to Shaka, but he wasn't convinced they would be useful to him. But what if he decided to adopt them?

Shortly after Shaka claimed the chieftainship of the Zulu, his mentor and overlord Dingiswayo, King of the Mthethwa Paramountcy, was captured and beheaded by Ndwandwe king Zwide kaLanga. How would things be different if Dingiswayo wasn't killed?

Lets say we go with a POD of 1815 can we get South Africa to control all of Southern Africa by 1945? https://i.imgur.com/4yASv5R.gif Basically OTL Union of South Africa plus Zimbabwe/Rhodesia Botswana Lesotho and Swaziland Mozambique south of the Zambezi Bonuses if: Namibia has more Germans...

Napoleon IV was in exile during the Franco-Prussian war in England, and after the failed war for France, Napoleon IV was eager to seek service in the English army. Though the British were anxious of sending a Napoleon to war, they eventually did, and he was sent to military service in the...

I was wondering what would happen had Le Petite Prince survived the Anglo-Zulu war? How does he interact with WWI? How does this change the weak nascent Third Republic? One idea I had that is borderline wank was, what if unsatisfied with British dithering in getting him to South Africa he...