AHC: More Independent Countries in Scramble for Africa

Which of these countries could survive

  • Sultanate of Zanzibar

    Votes: 22 41.5%
  • Muhammad Ali Dynasty Egypt

    Votes: 34 64.2%
  • Zulu Kingdom

    Votes: 15 28.3%
  • Ashanti Empire

    Votes: 18 34.0%
  • Merina Kingdom

    Votes: 18 34.0%
  • Sultanate of Morocco

    Votes: 37 69.8%
  • Tripolitania

    Votes: 9 17.0%
  • Orange Free State

    Votes: 30 56.6%
  • Transvaal

    Votes: 22 41.5%
  • Dahomey

    Votes: 7 13.2%
  • Sokoto Caliphate

    Votes: 21 39.6%
  • Kong Empire

    Votes: 9 17.0%
  • Wadai Empire

    Votes: 3 5.7%
  • Kingdom of Lunda

    Votes: 5 9.4%
  • Oyo

    Votes: 6 11.3%
  • Toucouleur Empire

    Votes: 9 17.0%
  • Warsangali Sultanate

    Votes: 5 9.4%
  • Burundi

    Votes: 7 13.2%
  • Majeerteen

    Votes: 5 9.4%
  • Sultanate of Hobyo

    Votes: 6 11.3%

  • Total voters
    53
Goal: Is to have more independent countries and kingdoms, during the Scramble For Africa, such as:
  • Sultanate of Zanzibar
  • Zulu Kingdom
  • Ashanti Empire
  • Merina Kingdom
  • Morocco
  • Muhammad Ali Dynasty Egypt
  • Sokoto Caliphate
  • Tripolitania
  • Dahomey
  • Orange Free State
  • Transvaal
  • and ETC
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Have any countries or kingdoms to survive from imperialism, like Liberia and Ethiopia. Good Luck and I hope you enjoy
 
Do client kingdoms/semi-independent vassal status count? Because in that case a modestly more powerful Ottoman Empire could easily have Zanzibar, Tunis, The Somali States, Egypt, and perhaps part of Centeral Africa and the Lake Victoria region sheltered under the mantle of the Caliphate.
 
Independent Madagascar? French invasion ends in disaster?
The Boer Republics of Oranje Vrijstaat and the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek (Transvaal) never occupied by Great Britain
An Independent Mahdi state in Sudan
Zululand After battle of Isandlwana Great Britain accepts a peace treaty
 
Do client kingdoms/semi-independent vassal status count? Because in that case a modestly more powerful Ottoman Empire could easily have Zanzibar, Tunis, The Somali States, Egypt, and perhaps part of Centeral Africa and the Lake Victoria region sheltered under the mantle of the Caliphate.

Sure, that could work, just have the country never be conquered and have its own government
 
Sure, that could work, just have the country never be conquered and have its own government

Well... in that case, strictly speaking, we can't count Egypt (Though the country's independence devolving back to tighter Ottoman control in the event of the Ali dynasty collapsing in prestige/legitimacy due to its accumilated debt is a possability), but Zanzibar and the Somali states certainly fit into that catagory. Constantinople would probably be satisfied with a prefered commercial position and aknowledgement of suzeranity/religious supremacy, since they don't have the same naval power-projection needs as the broader Empires, nor the same cultural-supremacy inclination for direct conquest.
 
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Added a poll, There's a few more countries I couldn't add because I ran out of room, so look at the map, and type the one's you believe could survive.
 
Britain only okay'd the annexation of Madagascar in response to the UK occupying Egypt. Avoid a solely British occupation (there were proposals for a Franco-British occupation, a Franco-British-Italian occupation, Ottoman takeover, etc) and Madagascar could survive.

Have the UK win the first Boer War and the Orange Free State could go on to be a landlocked independent polity. IIRC, most of the diamonds were in Transvaal. Alternatively, just keep Henry Bartle Frere out of South Africa.
 
Would a war between France and Britain, sparking from an earlier Fashoda crisis that turns into a more of a crisis than the real one, buy some time for independent countries in the interior of Africa?
 
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Perhaps the United States develops a closer relationship with Morocco than OTL and manages to guarantee it somehow? The French only really established dominance in full over the territory in 1912, so if the US and Morocco have a closer relationship throughout the 1800s then I can easily see TR not having any of that in the area and pressuring the French and Spanish to both back off, while managing to have them each save face since the other still doesn't have it.
 
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