Maybe have some sort of major black African uprising in the colonies, or some such.
They already had a couple of those IOTL.
Maybe have some sort of major black African uprising in the colonies, or some such.
Enough to scare them, I mean.
Can we get Southern Africa (South Africa and enclaves, Malawi, Mocambique, Angola, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana) white European majority through colonization and what would happen?
I was under the impression the OP was asking about a white majority, not a "wipe-out-all-non-whites" goal.All you need is a powerful state willing to engage in genocide.
Maybe the Portuguese focus on Africa rather than South America, and form early colonies at the Cape, Mozambique, Angola. Ends up as a highly racist Portuguese-speaking state encompassing most of southern Africa; black people are forbidden to reproduce with whites, and have no rights. The colonists work out that the natives do more harm than good, and sometime in the 1800s enact a program where all "negroid" male babies must, by law, have their testes removed at birth.
Black people gradually die out.
I was under the impression the OP was asking about a white majority, not a "wipe-out-all-non-whites" goal.
People seem to forget that Africa was not actually peopled by hundreds of millions of people, several centuries ago. A simple strong influx of rapidly population Europeans would see a white majority in several areas, relatively quickly.
No need for any of this genocide, mass-murder, eugenics business.
Problem is, to fulfill OP's requests, we'd have to get around the fact that until recently, European settlers didn't stand a chance once they got much further north than the Cape. Diseases will kill 'em.
That's hardly the only issue that needs to be gotten around. I was trying to show what a more easily obtainable objective might be; the OP is certainly not ASB, nor does it require industrial-scale killing to achieve.Problem is, to fulfill OP's requests, we'd have to get around the fact that until recently, European settlers didn't stand a chance once they got much further north than the Cape. Diseases will kill 'em.
There's actually quite a large chunk of southern Africa which is naturally malaria free: much more than just the cape. Although, I'd assume you already know that.An earlier introduction of Quinine as a prophylactic against Malaria (not terribly difficult) could help solve this problem.
I was under the impression the OP was asking about a white majority, not a "wipe-out-all-non-whites" goal.
People seem to forget that Africa was not actually peopled by hundreds of millions of people, several centuries ago. A simple strong influx of rapidly population Europeans would see a white majority in several areas, relatively quickly.
No need for any of this genocide, mass-murder, eugenics business.
Fixed it for you.
Granted this might be easier if South Africa developed a sort of 'Reverse one Drop Rule' where any visible white ancestry would make someone be counted as white.
Except that the majority of the areas in question with the OP aren't all that populated. That's the whole reason settler colonies did succeed in places like South Africa, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, Angola, Mozambique, etc.Same reason India was not a settlement colony, white people ain't gonna live anywhere that's too populated and natives are more resistant to diseases than they do.![]()