An independent Kingdom of Rwenzururu?

It might be more feasible if Britain focused on leaving the tribal kingdoms in Africa as vassal states than outright colonizing the place.
 
It might be more feasible if Britain focused on leaving the tribal kingdoms in Africa as vassal states than outright colonizing the place.

They did. The Lake Kingdoms were all protectorates. It's just that they also took the view that having a strong King as overloard was preferrable to having lots of weak kings, and Buganda was the strongest. Perhaps if the rest of the Kings also declare independence from Buganda through wanting more of a say, the result would a be Bugandan Kingdom weakened enough to be unable to prevent it.
 
It might be more feasible if Britain focused on leaving the tribal kingdoms in Africa as vassal states than outright colonizing the place.

Rwenzururu wasn't a kingdom in pre-colonial times, it was a collection of tribes living in a mountainous area. The Kingdom was a creation of the early 60s, after efforts to obtain more local autonomy in the form of their own district government failed.
 
Mind giving me a run through on the KPP? I'm not too knowledgeable on the Congo Civil War so I might not be the best man to help you.

The Katangan People's Pact is a fictional party that I started in-game. I've been the leader of it for a few years, but had to give up the position because of my promotion to Foreign Minister. The government is dominated by the CONAKAT party and has been even before independence. The main opposition parties are the Liberals, and some growing socialist/trade union parties.

The KPP is officially centrist, a very moderate party. I can give you more of a briefing later on. Basically, we just got out of a war with the DRC (now it's Zaire, under Mobutu), and one of the biggest rebel movements in Katanga has been split into two between pro-Zaire irredentist types and generic radical leftists. The latter have made peace with the government, while the pro-Zairians are still causing some low-level trouble. The country's main issue is development and poor worker conditions; the UMHK is a massive privately-owned mining corporation that owns the country's economy cyberpunk style.

You can either join as head of the KPP (and as a legislator), or the Speaker of the House (you would probably be a CONAKAT member in that case, or a military leader or rebel commander. The choice is yours, and feel free to PM the GM (Ismail), who is very helpful.

This is the current page, feel free to read through the rest of the thread to figure out what's been happening: http://www.revleft.com/vb/katanga-forum-game-t153104/index15.html

Also, feel free to join, anyone else!

Back to the original point:
I'm just wondering why Wikipedia takes this Rwenzururu to be significant enough of a territory to be included as an unrecognized state. I would think there are all sorts of rebel-ruled enclaves in Africa, but few reached the organization of Katanga or Biafra or Somaliland or Western Sahara to be considered actual unrecognized nations.
 
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Strategos, give me more of the details via PM. I'll make a decision by tomorrow if I'm joining in. It sounds pretty fun. I'll think I'll stick to being a legislator.
 
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