AHC: As many independant African countries during colonization

Ethiopia did'nt stay independent, it was annexed by Italy in the late colonial era.

That said, it depends on how you define independent country; Africa was'nt exactly filled to the brink with state-level societies, and of those that did exist the majority were in North Africa and West Africa, the areas that the Europeans were most interested in.
 
Ethiopia did'nt stay independent, it was annexed by Italy in the late colonial era.

During the Scramble for Africa it stayed independent, though, and that is what the OP specified.

I'm really not sure about this, but I suspect if you could make a couple more large African entities - such as the (anachronous, I know) Kanem-Bornu Empire, then those states might be able to use their size and past relations to maintain nominal independence, or at least avoid being carved up and keep their leadership. Making Africa resistant to colonisation is not easy though. The African states didn't have a lot of aces up their sleeves.
 
Zanzibar, Ethiopia, Sokoto, Great Lakes kingdoms, Morocco. Perhaps even Bornu.

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...
 

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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...

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?575141-Soks-to-be-You-A-Sokoto-V2-AAR

Well This is the Timeline for you. Sokoto stretching from Germany to South America to Japan. Very ASB
 
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