AHCs: A Greater African Scramble

I have several AHCs which I'm going to list on this one thread as a means to save space on the Forumn since they all have to do with The Scramble for Africa.
  • Have Germany make larger colonial claims in Africa
  • Have the USA claim Spanish African Colonies after the Spanish-American War.
  • Have Mexico (perhaps a version which is more succesful than OTL) make colonial claims in Africa.
  • Have Brazil make colonial claims in Africa.
My insperation for asking about Mexico and Brazil came from this thread. I doubt that OTLs Mexico would have been able to keep any claims in Africa but I'm currently wondering if it could have if Maximillian had stayed on the trhone of the 2nd Empire.
 
I do believe your point about a surviving Hapsburg Emperor on the throne of Mexico could make a claim in Africa, if nothing more as a proxy for Austria. It sounds ludicrous, but with the right tweaks here and there I'm sure there could at least be a Mexican Claimant.
 
A Brazil that get's its act together (I don't know enough about Brazilian history to tell you how to do this) might want to create a Liberia-style colony to settle freed black slaves.
 
Well, essentially you're going to need more Westernized states that can be forward plausible claims (e.g. actually take and hold some territory on the African continent, and then be strong enough to keep others out). This is also going to depend on a weaker class of IOTL's colonizers. So you'd need to screw France, Spain, Britain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany, and wank several other contenders. Obviously this is going to need a POD quite some time before the Scramble started, so we're looking at the 1850s as the latest point of divergence - if not something even earlier.
 
Both Denmark and the Netherlands gave up their claims mid-19th century so could keep them instead. I think Brandenburg also had some claims, to make for a different Prussia/Germany involvement.

IIRC Brazil could have held onto Angola rather than Portugal

The Boers could have gone up over Bechuanaland also

The Russians also tried in Eritrea

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 
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