An Industrialized Independent African Nation

What African country could have industrialized most successfully in the Victorian Age?

Ethiopia?
Liberia?
Zulu?

Could it even have happened? (partly inspired by Ethiopia games in Victoria: Revolutions)

*Transvaal and Oranje don't count
 
Which African country has large convenient reserves of coal and iron? Ethiopia has the temperate climate needed to aviod tetse fly and those other african nasties, but does it have the resources?
 
What African country could have industrialized most successfully in the Victorian Age?

Ethiopia?
Liberia?
Zulu?

Could it even have happened? (partly inspired by Ethiopia games in Victoria: Revolutions)

*Transvaal and Oranje don't count

and why not. If they avoid annexation by Britain ( highly unlikely of course but hey...) The South African Republic is a good candidate.
 

Rockingham

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I'm tempted to say Egypt, or a expanded and Europeanized Zulu state(unlikely as that is). Camn't see any other possibilities, Ethiopia's too mountainous, and it had a rather remarkable run of luck as it is.

Egypt OTOH, had a rather horrible run of luck in some regards, and the Zulus could have done quite a lot better within reasonable standards.
 
I'm tempted to say Southern Rhodesia, but that was not really in the Victorian Age, though it was founded in 1890.

And I don't know why the South African Republic wouldn't count. Plenty of coal and iron ore there.
 
omg i love victoria and EU2. i have eu3 but i need to get my computron fixed because it doesn't play on this older laptop.

umm, anyway, back on topic, lol.

i think ethiopia or liberia were the best candidates. i have done it in Vicky with ethiopia and liberia would be easy to do it if they could get some foreign investment and some steady immigration of, say, disgruntled slaves, sharecroppers and factory workers from the states.
 
Egypt was fairly industrialized for an African nation, I can be sure of that, during the Victorian Age. Problem was that Ismail Pasha, the khedive who modernized the country, also ran it into the ground in terms of debt, leading to more instability. Egypt wasn't exactly independent, but it was de facto, and might have completely split away from the Ottomans in a timeline.

I have to say that Ethiopia kinda got away only by luck and terrain. I don't see how a Zulu state would have modernized, though it was independent.
 
Ethipoia's terrain gives it a temperate climate suitable for draft-animal agriculture, similar to other places which did industrialise.
 
I think he means black nations.
But yeah, Egypt or the other north Africans or the Boer lands are much better choices.
Does Zanzibar even count?

I suppose Sierra Leone if things went better earlier on, it was a British settler colony afterall.
 
It was? :confused:

I never heard that before. I tought the climate in SL was pretty awfull to Europeans :confused::confused:

They weren't anglo-celto-norse-frisian-franco-whatever-saxons, they were black Brits but many of them were just as British as our black people today (each compared to the respective white folk of their time of course).
 
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