AHC: Make the Europain powers in Africa happy

Is it possible to create territorial boarders in Africa that meet the desires of two or more European powers? As I understand it Britian wanted a "Cape to Cairo" set of of colonies reaching from north to south, France wanted and east coast to west coast setup, and Portugal wanted a east to west set up in the south which they tried to establish with their "Pink Map". I'm not sure what Spain's, Germany's, or Belgiums plan's were though.

Below I have a crued concept map I put together in a few minutes in which the colonies of France, Britian, and Portugal meet at several points so that each can have a direct rought between their own colonies. Is a setup such as this plausible?

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British Zambia and Malawi seems landlocked and Congo looks very ugly.

Alternatively you could have the Fachoda crisis go differently: France gains the southern half of Sudan, and then invade ethiopia. Portugal explored modern-day Zimbabwe before the British so perhaps they could get to colonize it earlier, and thus link Angola with Mozambique.
 
Well, I don't have a POD, but this hastily assembled map satifies three of them.
Portuguese east-west. French east-west. German Mittelafrika.

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Germany would get bloody rich with that. Would have to be a Brit-screw to work though. Might as well give Germany South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, and splits Nigeria with France while you are at it. Oh and Egypt to France
 
As that second map illustrates, it is pretty easy to satisfy 2 or more powers as long as one of them is not the British. In actuality, it worked out the other way and nobody but the British got their way. So some things would have to go very differently. Every country at the Berlin conference supported Portugal's claims to the land between Angola and Mozambique, except the UK. There were a few places the British wanted that they didn't get (Katanga for one, and they showed some interest in Madagascar), but for the most part they got what they really wanted. Ol' Cecil was an ambitious fellow.
 
As that second map illustrates, it is pretty easy to satisfy 2 or more powers as long as one of them is not the British. In actuality, it worked out the other way and nobody but the British got their way. So some things would have to go very differently. Every country at the Berlin conference supported Portugal's claims to the land between Angola and Mozambique, except the UK. There were a few places the British wanted that they didn't get (Katanga for one, and they showed some interest in Madagascar), but for the most part they got what they really wanted. Ol' Cecil was an ambitious fellow.
How much do you know about Cecil Rhodes' influnce? What might his death do to Britain's coloniztion plans?
 
How much do you know about Cecil Rhodes' influnce? What might his death do to Britain's coloniztion plans?

Although Rhodes and the British South African Company pretty much single-handedly gained what is now Zimbabwe and Zambia for the British, there is a good chance they would have taken this area some other way. The Cape-Cairo idea was not his alone. Although, without Rhodes the administration of the colonies would likely be different.

Germany, Portugal, and the Boer Republics all have a chance of ruling large areas of southern africa without Cecil Rhodes, but I think the odds are still in the UKs favour to control all the land they controlled IOTL.
 
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