As the title says, have as many African countries stay independant during the Great Scramble of Africa, like Ethiopia IOTL.
Ethiopia did'nt stay independent, it was annexed by Italy in the late colonial era.
Zanzibar, Ethiopia, Sokoto, Great Lakes kingdoms, Morocco. Perhaps even Bornu.
eh.. Ethiopia wasn't much different.Sokoto would have been a rather attention-getting neighbor, given its expansionist, slave-raiding behavior and rather loose control from the center: it's hard to see neighboring colonial powers not "intervening to restore order", or to eliminate slavery, while the Caliph has to bring his various subordinates under sufficient control to establish stable borders...
eh.. Ethiopia wasn't much different.
Sokoto would have been a rather attention-getting neighbor, given its expansionist, slave-raiding behavior and rather loose control from the center: it's hard to see neighboring colonial powers not "intervening to restore order", or to eliminate slavery, while the Caliph has to bring his various subordinates under sufficient control to establish stable borders...