Is it possible with a post-1945 PoD to get Kenya to be like Rhodesia with a White minority ruling over the Black majority post-independence for at least a decade?
Mac's Invasion of Kenya should be right up your ally.
Also, brotip, it (and Mac) are on CF.net.
Did he take down the stuff on here?
Well, that's what the White settlers in Kenya wanted. But the natives and the British kind of disagreed.
Which is currently on hiatus, but Mac's still brainstorming for it.![]()
Also, brotip, it (and Mac) are on CF.net.
This is welcome news. I loved that story. I will have to join this CF.net.
Assuming Rhodesia and Kenya are equal for a second and the white settlers in Kenya do try this- they've other disadvantages Rhodesia didn't have which make the whole idea a lot more dangerous.
They're coastal, so commonwealth navies can get at them, and they don't have friendly, racist South Africa next door as a potential supporter. They're all alone, surrounded by native dominated African nations. Ethiopia has some small minor on northern Kenya as things stand I believe, should they be given an excuse then they might decide to pop in for a spot of war.
Boosting the number of settlers in Kenya is only half the battle here.
As others have said Mac's Invasion of Kenya was a great study of this, but in OTL the demographics were even more unfavourable than Rhodesia. However boosting them higher would be difficult as Rhodesia benefited from a lot of immigration from South Africa as well as Britain whereas Kenya was almost entirely dependent on Europe for it's white's, though there were a few South Africans who came north.
I don't think so. From what I have read Rhodesia and South African both had policies that limited European immigration to the "right kind" of people. For example, the Rhodesians had a policy that set a minimum capital level needed to settle there. They turned down large numbers of homeless Germans after WW1 and homeless Czechs the after Munich agreement out of the fear of losing their "british-ness". The South Africa also limited European immigration after the Nationalist Party took over in 1948 out of fear out reducing Africanner influence.
If a Kenya wanted more Europeans all they had to do was allow a more open with who they let in, just think all those German Jews that wanted a place to go in the 1930's.
IMO the African nations would have been better off without the ethnic cleansing they all did in the 1960's and 1970's. From what I read the urban areas in Angola were 50 to 60% European until the black majority took over. In less than a year of majority rule there were almost no ethnic Europeans in the nation.
I don't think so. From what I have read Rhodesia and South African both had policies that limited European immigration to the "right kind" of people. For example, the Rhodesians had a policy that set a minimum capital level needed to settle there. They turned down large numbers of homeless Germans after WW1 and homeless Czechs the after Munich agreement out of the fear of losing their "british-ness". The South Africa also limited European immigration after the Nationalist Party took over in 1948 out of fear out reducing Africanner influence.
If a Kenya wanted more Europeans all they had to do was allow a more open with who they let in, just think all those German Jews that wanted a place to go in the 1930's.
IMO the African nations would have been better off without the ethnic cleansing they all did in the 1960's and 1970's. From what I read the urban areas in Angola were 50 to 60% European until the black majority took over. In less than a year of majority rule there were almost no ethnic Europeans in the nation.