AHC: Entire African Continent controlled by single European Power

Wallet

Banned
Your goal, is too have the entire African continent claimed, controlled, and colonized by a single European power.

Bonus points if there are other competing powers, but they are more focused on other parts of the world like China, India, Australia, or the Americas

The best choices are either Rome or Britain. If Rome never falls and controls all of Europe, and they industrialized, Africa is all theirs.

Britain already controlled half of Africa's land and 30% of the population. France had 25% of the land and 15% of its population.

Maybe with the right POD, the British and Frence can agree to a joint Union like discussed in WWII. Maybe a continental power like Germany starts a war (Kaiser or Hitler) and forces that joint Angol-Franco empire to seize all the smaller European powers.
 
Your problem is you need an oceanic power and a Mediterranean one, both in the same country. Getting Britain to be able to control the entire south shore of the Med is difficult. Getting France to control the sea lanes enough to lay claim to all Africa is more difficult. Getting Rome to have the oceanic reach to control all Africa is probably impossible.

A Franco-British Union might be your best bet.

Or a Franco-British war that the Brits win decisively (say Britain + Germany vs France + Austria). Maybe, in that case, Germany (or whoever Britain's continental ally is) gets all of Europe, Britain gets Africa, South America, Oceania, ....

I suppose another possibility would be if the reconquest of the West by the ERE was successful (say the Justinian plague doesn't happen, or it's attempted at a different time), a revived Empire that controlled from the Euphrates to the Atlantic to the Sahara might later be able to expand south to take all of Africa. Maybe.


Your easiest bet is any world dominating power, since having the resources to keep anyone else out of Africa probably means you can dominate the other powers later ...
 

ben0628

Banned
Castile, Aragon, and Portugal unify before driving the Muslims completely off the Iberian peninsula. Afterwards have them focus on exploring Africa and tell Columbus to f off. Let France and Great Britain colonize most of the new world.

Great Britain gets North America. France gets central and most of South America. Unified Iberian state gets Africa and southern South America. Everyone shares Asia.

Maintain this status quo until the late 19th century when Africa's interior can be conquered.
 
1. Alt WW2 Europe is overrun by the Germans but Italy has collapsed, Britain takes over everyone's colonies so Germany can't. Japan gets defeated similar to OTL. WW2 turns into a stalemate with Britain controlling Africa, Germany controlling Europe, the USSR controlling most of Asia (having pupitized the Chinese). And the USA controlling (indirectly) the Americas. 5-10 years later when the Riche collapses Europe is occupied and restructured by the USA-UK-USSR but Britain keeps Africa and eventually intigrates is into a Masive dominion (or likely multiple smaller ones) in this world decolonization is dropped in favor in integration and by the year 1995 Africa as just another part of a federally intigrated British empire.

You know I like this idea so much I just might make a map of it.
 
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2. Anglo-French Union.
Gradually picks up other colonies from various wars over the 19th and 20the centuries
 
1. Alt WW2 Europe is overrun by the Germans but Italy has collapsed, Britain takes over everyone's colonies so Germany can't. Japan gets defended similar to OTL. WW2 turns into a stalemate with Britain controlling Africa, Germany controlling Europe, the USSR controlling most of Asia (having pupitized the Chinese). And the USA controlling (indirectly) the Americas. 5-10 years later when the Riche collapses Europe is occupied and restructured by the USA-UK-USSR but Britain keeps Africa and eventually intigrates is into a Masive dominion (or likely multiple smaller ones) in this world decolonization is dropped in favor in integration and by the year 1995 Africa as just another part of a federally intigrates British empire.

You know I like this idea so mutch I just might make a map of it.
I have a similar idea, except in mine, Free France, based in either Algiers or Dakar becomes the Republique Federal Africaine. Not sure this satisfies the OP though, as it's neither ruled from Europe nor includes land in Europe.
 

Wallet

Banned
1. Alt WW2 Europe is overrun by the Germans but Italy has collapsed, Britain takes over everyone's colonies so Germany can't. Japan gets defended similar to OTL. WW2 turns into a stalemate with Britain controlling Africa, Germany controlling Europe, the USSR controlling most of Asia (having pupitized the Chinese). And the USA controlling (indirectly) the Americas. 5-10 years later when the Riche collapses Europe is occupied and restructured by the USA-UK-USSR but Britain keeps Africa and eventually intigrates is into a Masive dominion (or likely multiple smaller ones) in this world decolonization is dropped in favor in integration and by the year 1995 Africa as just another part of a federally intigrates British empire.

You know I like this idea so mutch I just might make a map of it.
Please do
 
Why? If they last long enough, the only thing really stopping them would be lack of interest, ala China. Which, due to trade patterns and geography, I find unlikely.
1) I did allow as how a reunited Byzantine Empire might do it.
2) Classical Rome was pretty incompetent at sailing anywhere out of the Med. You'd have to develop whole new technologies AND reasons to want to.
 
1) I did allow as how a reunited Byzantine Empire might do it.
2) Classical Rome was pretty incompetent at sailing anywhere out of the Med. You'd have to develop whole new technologies AND reasons to want to.

I have to think that any discussion that involves one state controlling all of Africa also involves enough time passing by for that state to adapt.
 
1. Alt WW2 Europe is overrun by the Germans but Italy has collapsed, Britain takes over everyone's colonies so Germany can't. Japan gets defeated similar to OTL. WW2 turns into a stalemate with Britain controlling Africa, Germany controlling Europe, the USSR controlling most of Asia (having pupitized the Chinese). And the USA controlling (indirectly) the Americas. 5-10 years later when the Riche collapses Europe is occupied and restructured by the USA-UK-USSR but Britain keeps Africa and eventually intigrates is into a Masive dominion (or likely multiple smaller ones) in this world decolonization is dropped in favor in integration and by the year 1995 Africa as just another part of a federally intigrated British empire.

You know I like this idea so much I just might make a map of it.

This kind of map, maybe?
 
Here's mine.

Make the Mali empire control all of Africa by 1300. Mali meets the Bantu to the South and the Somali to the East. The Mali empire quickly defeats the ill-prepared Somali and Bantu and turns their population into slaves and scatter their population throughout Africa. The Mali cleanse whoever can't be sold into slavery and they start inhabiting Somalia and OTL South Africa.

They have a surplus of slaves, which they sell to the colonial empires of Europe. Europe institutes chattel slavery for the Bantu and Somali.

Runaway Somali and Bantu slaves, respectively, form runaway slave villages away from their masters in territories where slavery is illegal and they build "New Somalias" and "New Bantulands". They both speak a pidgin of English that's heavily influenced by their mother tongues. Both cultures are influenced by Christianity. Both cultures form a religion where they're prophesied to go back to their homelands when Jesus returns to earth.

Their prayers are answered. In 1850, the British, under the command of the half Spanish, half English captain Andrew De Jesus, goes on a quest to conquer "The Sick Man of the Mediterranean.", AKA the Mali Empire. The Christianized Somalis and Bantu see this as a sign that Jesus returned and they fight for the British Empire to get their lands back.

The Somalis and Bantu go through the continent liberating the Mali Bantu and the Mali Somali slaves. The slaves then join their Somali and Bantu brethren throughout the country, conquering everything they see, with help of the British Empire.

The Christianized Somalis set up their own country in the old Somaliland, kicking out the Malis. The Christianized Somalis then align themselves with the remaining Christian Ethiopians left in East Africa. They form a Christian superstate, much to the chagrin of the Muslim Somalis. The Bantu set up a Christian state in Southern Africa. Both states are loyal to the British, who helped the Bantu and Somalis revive their states.

The Mali empire, however, is is subjugated by the UK. Etho-Somaliland then goes on to quickly conquer the Southern Mediterranean, which was once controlled by the dead Mali empire and the dying Ottoman empire. Southern Africa is conquered all the way up to the African Great Lakes by the Mali empire.
 
I think the best chances of that happening would be to get the Roman Empire to have astronomical levels of scientific development just like Europe got after the Renaissance.
 
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