AHC: Swedish Ghana

As far as I'm aware, the Swedish Empire had, once upon a time, a colony on the Gold Coast centred around the Cabo Corso. Naturally, in our timeline, the colony was decimated and captured by Danish forces, and afterwards, conquered by the English from the Danish. Seeing as pretty much every major European colonial power wished to colonise the Gold Coast region due to how lucrative the Triangle Trade was, I don't think it would have been particularly impossible for the Swedish to have shown greater interest in maintaining their colony to the point that they'd have kept it for a few more centuries (as the British did), perhaps even reach an equivalent of the Scramble for Africa and go on and expand it to the entire region of what we know today as Ghana.

How that would happen, though, is up for you to decipher, if you dare accept this challenge.
 
It will very unlikely be as big as Ghana, since besides the Swedes and Danes, the Dutch, British and even Brandeburg had colonies in the area. Sweden must be able to defend their colonies against them and the natives (possible, but hard) and conquer their colonies (impossible) or buy them at alater stage (probably too expensive). ZThe best Sweden can hope for would be some small outposts near each other that can form a small togo-like country.Actualy the best they can hope for is a nice price when they sell it to Britain.
 
It will very unlikely be as big as Ghana, since besides the Swedes and Danes, the Dutch, British and even Brandeburg had colonies in the area. Sweden must be able to defend their colonies against them and the natives (possible, but hard) and conquer their colonies (impossible) or buy them at alater stage (probably too expensive). ZThe best Sweden can hope for would be some small outposts near each other that can form a small togo-like country.Actualy the best they can hope for is a nice price when they sell it to Britain.

I don't know. They could conceivably keep a single outpost with a hundred square miles of hinterland, IF, for some reason, it was in Britain's interest to allow it. Maybe having a neutral port for bargaining and diplomacy might be helpful.

Pretty low probability, though.
 
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