Best place for settler colonialism in Africa?

Other than South Africa. (and Zimbabwe/Rhodesia maybe? I admit I don't know much about the country.)
How can we get a settler colony in Africa with a significant portion of its population descented from settlers from the colonising country?

I'm not sure whether this belongs to pre-1900 or post-1900. Sorry if it is in the wrong one!
 
Everything south of the Zambesi River is prime land more or less for settler colonialism.

North of the Zambesi, you have Malawi, Katanga, and the highlands of Kenya (which spill over into Tanzania). Parts of Angola are also decent. Note that indeed the English tried having a white settler colony in Kenya which could've gotten to at least Rhodesia levels (and would've ended up the same way).

The best settler colony you can get using a rather late POD is a Portuguese/Spanish South African colony which evolves like Brazil. Lands south of the Zambesi are feasible to gain. And you'll get a very racially diverse colony as a result with mainly mixed-race people along with a less mixed-race upper class and then more or less white later European immigrants.
 
Other than South Africa. (and Zimbabwe/Rhodesia maybe? I admit I don't know much about the country.)
How can we get a settler colony in Africa with a significant portion of its population descented from settlers from the colonising country?

I'm not sure whether this belongs to pre-1900 or post-1900. Sorry if it is in the wrong one!
Tbh a good generalized question test is "can they grow wheat?" Because that's an indicator for a number of other impediments to European settlement from tsetse, malaria, etc... onward.
 

ben0628

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- Coastal North Africa (excluding Egypt).
- Mountains/hifglands in Kenya and Tanzania.
- Grasslands between the Congo and South Africa (Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe).
- Madagascar.
 
- Coastal North Africa (excluding Egypt).
- Mountains/hifglands in Kenya and Tanzania.
- Grasslands between the Congo and South Africa (Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe).
- Madagascar.
Nah. Last one you'll need more specifics because there are multiple vector species for malaria in Madagascar in the lowland coasts in the East and West along with the dense forests as a combination dropped most opportunity for European encroachment for centuries.
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And on top of that there is still bubonic plague lol

If you can hold out through the arid South with warring cattle rustling warror clans and multi year long droughts with little well water maybe but that's ASB

I'd also question your miombo answer too but it's 4am
 
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ben0628

Banned
Nah. Last one you'll need more specifics because there are multiple vector species for malaria in Madagascar in the lowland coasts in the East and West along with the dense forests as a combination dropped most opportunity for European encroachment for centuries.
12936_2016_1556_Fig2_HTML.gif

And on top of that there is still bubonic plague lol

If you can hold out through the arid South with warring cattle rustling warror clans and multi year long droughts with little well water maybe but that's ASB

I'd also question your miombo answer too but it's 4am

According to the map I found below, there is only extremely low chances of getting malaria in both the southwest of Madagascar, as well as the central highlands. Although it may be hard to live in the arid southwest, the central highlands are very livable.


 
According to the map I found below, there is only extremely low chances of getting malaria in both the southwest of Madagascar, as well as the central highlands. Although it may be hard to live in the arid southwest, the central highlands are very livable.


As I stated in the very Arid region. Getting into the Highlands is the challenge, having settlers migrate through warrior " infested" arid lands filled with poisonous plants and poison arrows however is unrealistic.

Especially given the main corridors to the highland is North through the great Forests, to the mountain passes allowing safe journey to the Highlands (that by the way do get malarial outbreak even in Tana)

https://books.google.com/books?id=k-YhAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA616&lpg=PA616&dq=ranavalona+iii+forests+malaria&source=bl&ots=Npo5Tqy2C4&sig=kQfhFfdHD9T-Yqi3HTFharjMZMc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiw5L_Rm4jTAhUIxFQKHTisCV4Q6AEIbjAS#v=onepage&q=ranavalona iii forests malaria&f=true

As this old passage states few white folk could make it.
 
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