Minority Rule in Other African States

IOTL Rhodesia and South Africa were ruled by white minorities, who undertook brutal wars to keep their rule alive. Could any other African states have been ruled by their white minorities? What would be the effect on Africa, and how long would these states last?
 
IOTL Rhodesia and South Africa were ruled by white minorities, who undertook brutal wars to keep their rule alive. Could any other African states have been ruled by their white minorities? What would be the effect on Africa, and how long would these states last?

It would require some political changes within Portugal (letting the settlers run things in some capacity, rather than everything being done from Lisbon), but you could plausibly get Angola and/or Mozambique to be minority-ruled (which at independence were at 10% and 4% White respectively - though Southern Mozambique was 7%; and it isn't very difficult to get these numbers higher). Both these states could probably last until the end of the cold war. Mozambique going under minority-rule would prolong Rhodesia's lifespan considerably, given that the front would be far easier to defend. The overall impact is hard to say (it could really go in a number of ways)

Algeria could be minority-ruled, but it won't last very long. It will face uniformly hostile neighbors (and probably a hostile France) and a unified opposition (which was not the case in Southern Africa). Plus the demographic situation is not nearly as favorable as it was in South Africa (percentage wise, Whites in Algeria were half of what they were in South Africa) - and many Pied Noirs were moving to mainland France (where they could earn a higher wage) well before the Algerian war kicked into high gear.
 
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What about in Southern Africa? Like Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, etc.?

Uganda was a proposed site for a Jewish state.
Say Britain loses a war against the U.S. in the 1910s or 20s, there would be less places to go for British expats. That could tip Kenya to minority rule as well.
Zanzibar was under nominal minority Arab rule (really UK rule) until the revolution, so that's the easiest one.
 
An independent South-West Africa could easily also be a minority-rule state.

Not sure how that would work, but perhaps no mandate is given to South Africa to rule it, but to Britain instead, and it gets self-government around the same time Southern Rhodesia does?
 
IOTL Rhodesia and South Africa were ruled by white minorities, who undertook brutal wars to keep their rule alive. Could any other African states have been ruled by their white minorities? What would be the effect on Africa, and how long would these states last?

Re: South Africa, are you talking about the border wars, because there was no war fought within South Africa.
 
There's alos the federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, where today's Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi were ruled by whites. This didn't last very long as Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia both lobbied hard for independence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of_Rhodesia_and_Nyasaland

Somehow butterfly it that the federation doesn't collpase - perhaps less support in London for black rule?

Some sort of partition of North Rhodesia could also work. If Barotseland and North-East Rhodesia go independent (the latter of the two could perhaps be merged with Malawi), the remainder of North Rhodesia (which would contain essentially ~99% of the Whites of North Rhodesia, while only about a third of the total African population) would be about was White as South Rhodesia (roughly 7%) and could be a contender for minority rule.

Uganda was a proposed site for a Jewish state.
Say Britain loses a war against the U.S. in the 1910s or 20s, there would be less places to go for British expats. That could tip Kenya to minority rule as well.
Zanzibar was under nominal minority Arab rule (really UK rule) until the revolution, so that's the easiest one.

Kenya, not Uganda (though admittedly, the "Uganda Programme" has to be one of the greatest misnomers in history) was proposed as a Jewish State.

Also, British Kenya was generally extremely elitist when it came to immigration (even more so than Rhodesia, which was quite restrictive itself). Much of the White population of Kenya viewed the country as a giant gentleman's club.
 
Some sort of partition of North Rhodesia could also work. If Barotseland and North-East Rhodesia go independent (the latter of the two could perhaps be merged with Malawi), the remainder of North Rhodesia (which would contain essentially ~99% of the Whites of North Rhodesia, while only about a third of the total African population) would be about was White as South Rhodesia (roughly 7%) and could be a contender for minority rule.



Kenya, not Uganda (though admittedly, the "Uganda Programme" has to be one of the greatest misnomers in history) was proposed as a Jewish State.

Also, British Kenya was generally extremely elitist when it came to immigration (even more so than Rhodesia, which was quite restrictive itself). Much of the White population of Kenya viewed the country as a giant gentleman's club.

Rhodesia was where the guys from the ranks went, while Kenya was where the officers went.
 
Re: South Africa, are you talking about the border wars, because there was no war fought within South Africa.
Yeah.
Some sort of partition of North Rhodesia could also work. If Barotseland and North-East Rhodesia go independent (the latter of the two could perhaps be merged with Malawi), the remainder of North Rhodesia (which would contain essentially ~99% of the Whites of North Rhodesia, while only about a third of the total African population) would be about was White as South Rhodesia (roughly 7%) and could be a contender for minority rule.



Kenya, not Uganda (though admittedly, the "Uganda Programme" has to be one of the greatest misnomers in history) was proposed as a Jewish State.

Also, British Kenya was generally extremely elitist when it came to immigration (even more so than Rhodesia, which was quite restrictive itself). Much of the White population of Kenya viewed the country as a giant gentleman's club.
I read somewhere that there was a proposed union between Uganda and Kenya. Would that have worked as a minority ruled state? In addition, what are the long term economic and political effects?
 
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