AHC: Oman participating in Scramble for Africa

With a POD after 1800 make Oman participate in the Scramble for Africa with the European Great Powers.
 
have said bin sultan not divide his realm, and make one of his sons realize the inevitablity of european domaination. that way oman has a leader willing to check up to the west. getting lands in the scramble would largely depend on if the british would let them have their african lands if they manage to keep what they gained from portugal previously. this would however upset fellow europeans with interests in oman's africans land.

so to recap, you need an undivided land, a smart succesor, and british goodwill.
 

birdboy2000

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The big problem is the slave trade. Given that Oman was a major participant, and that slavery was one of the key drivers of their expansion, abolishing it won't be easy. And given that suppressing slavery was one of the main rationales of European penetration into Africa, Oman seems likely to be headed for a collision with powers it can not defeat, unless you change that factor instead.

(Partitioning the empire didn't help either, don't get me wrong, but keeping it united wouldn't be enough.)
 
The big problem is the slave trade. Given that Oman was a major participant, and that slavery was one of the key drivers of their expansion, abolishing it won't be easy. And given that suppressing slavery was one of the main rationales of European penetration into Africa, Oman seems likely to be headed for a collision with powers it can not defeat, unless you change that factor instead.

(Partitioning the empire didn't help either, don't get me wrong, but keeping it united wouldn't be enough.)

Saids successor needs to be more competent which one of his sons would be the best to take the throne in Zanzibar (note: Zanzibar is the capital of Oman pre-partitioning I mean not the sultanate)?
 
Bumpity Bump.
To maintain a united Oman it has to pull a Meiji and industrialise is that even possible with its OTL empire?
 
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