John Fredrick Parker
Donor
Then how about Sokoto Caliphate?
Another good possibility -- but like the others, I'm still thinking about how it stays sovereign...
Then how about Sokoto Caliphate?
Anyhow I think the French sphere actually didn't really take off in Morocco until around NIII
And the bonus points are: if Sokoto survives, so does Bornu!!Much obliged![]()
Well, the British exercised a hands off attitude in several Protectorates where there were no major economic gains to be made. Northern Nigeria is a prime example of the Indirect Rule principle, where the Emirs pretty much could continue run things like they had always done after the conquest. (Except Slave Trading and raiding became illegal, instead a black market flourished).It would be interesting to see if we could get more in the way of protectorates like Bechuanaland, where the colonial power was rather more hands off. It might be possible to make Zimbabwe a proctectorate rather than a settler colony, if one could butterfly the independence of the Afrikaner republics and the rise of Rhodes.
So maybe either remove the first Boer War, or make it a clear British victory where the post war settlement is that the republics are under clear British control. Then somehow hope that Britain restrains northern drift and keeps Bechuanaland and Zimbabwe as protectorates.