Colonialism leads... German spoken more in Africa

How could German colonialism (either in territory or policy) have made it so that German is spoken on a greater level in Africa, perhaps not as much as English or French, but perhaps as much as Spanish or Portuguese there?
 
Greater German emigration to its colonies and not losing them during WW1 would probably be a good start.
 
Generally I think you just need the Germans to have more colonies in order to have Deutschophone Africa. Possible colonies include Congo (it was incredibly implausible that Belgium got it in the first place) the Portuguese and Spanish colonies (easy to buy if either Iberian country gets into an economic sore spot) and perhaps Eritrea and Somaliland (nab them before Italy gets there).
 
Belgium (or rather, king Leopold) got it probably because he was a compromise candidate: Britain, France and Germany wouldn't get it because neither of the other two would really want that.

But yes, if Germany won WW1 and got its Mittelafrika empire, and kept it long enough, it could work.
 

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How could German colonialism (either in territory or policy) have made it so that German is spoken on a greater level in Africa, perhaps not as much as English or French, but perhaps as much as Spanish or Portuguese there?

German is already spoken more than Spanish in Africa, a third of Namibia vs most of the tiny Equatorial Guinea and the Spanish exclaves.
 
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