more Whites in Africa

what has to happen for most (90% or so) European settlers to stay in Africa and how does this change Africa? what would an Algeria with ~16% of its population being French be like? 10% of Eritrea's population being Italian?
 
ASB in every case, unless you can get enough of them that they feel they are a large enough number to seriously influence politics and policy in their countries, and you shift their own views enough to not have them be hardline bigots the whole time. Tough call, to say the least.
 
The best way I think would be for those of European* descent to basically be at the heads of the various independent movements.

Alot of the independence movements were themselves racist** and lead by natives who hated non-black Africans***, so essentially
if you replace them with Europeans then you prevent the various expulsions and general making life terrible for Europeans that
made them immigrate from the newly independent nations.


1. A significant chunk of native North Africa are technically white, so the term European is more appropriate and correct in this case.
2. Racism is racism, you don't get a free card to be racist just because some others acted that way towards you.
3. Or really anyone who was'nt from their specific ethno-tribal group or did'nt agree with them.
 
If you mean white such as in of European descent, I suppose it is possible for Italian immigration to speed up to Libya, Somalia, and Eritea (Ethiopia is best to be avoided for obvious reasons) and you can probably guarantee Italian majorities in the Libyan coast, and in parts of Somalia and Eritea. I'm sure a lot more whites would've stayed in places like Angola and Mozambique had Portugal reached some sort of compromise with the rebels and granted the colonies something similar to a dominion like status.
 
What if the ottomans manage to keep their African empire and have a kind of military settlement policy of moving Serbs, Albanians, Greeks, Romanians, and others into their African territories.
 
You'd need more tolerant colonization and de-colonization movements: the latter being a bit more important. In both cases you mentioned, the majority population was not very favored for jobs, citizenship, political rights etc. where as the latter was pretty over-represented in government. De-colonization movements often wanted put all the blame on the whites as oppressors and colonizers, which is just really not good for wanting to keep them in the country.

Having them somehow stay and avoid huge violence would be good for business I'd think, as that sort of implies more political stability and respect for human rights, which post-1960s became a huge issue in where Western countries were going to invest.
 
You'd need more tolerant colonization and de-colonization movements: the latter being a bit more important. In both cases you mentioned, the majority population was not very favored for jobs, citizenship, political rights etc. where as the latter was pretty over-represented in government. De-colonization movements often wanted put all the blame on the whites as oppressors and colonizers, which is just really not good for wanting to keep them in the country.

Having them somehow stay and avoid huge violence would be good for business I'd think, as that sort of implies more political stability and respect for human rights, which post-1960s became a huge issue in where Western countries were going to invest.

Congo and Rhodesia are prime examples of this.
 

Valdemar II

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The best way are to either make WWI a short war, no war at all or push it a decade or two into the future. The war simply killed so many young Europeans that the potential emigration pool sbecame significant smaller .
 
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The best way I think would be for those of European* descent to basically be at the heads of the various independent movements.

Alot of the independence movements were themselves racist** and lead by natives who hated non-black Africans***, so essentially
if you replace them with Europeans then you prevent the various expulsions and general making life terrible for Europeans that
made them immigrate from the newly independent nations.


1. A significant chunk of native North Africa are technically white, so the term European is more appropriate and correct in this case.
2. Racism is racism, you don't get a free card to be racist just because some others acted that way towards you.
3. Or really anyone who was'nt from their specific ethno-tribal group or did'nt agree with them.

I am sorry, but I disagree with you on number 2. The independence movements in Africa all the way up to the final ANC victory in South Africa have all received free passes on their openly racist views toward their European minorities by world governments and the international press. Just looks at some of the speeches be given by ANC officials the last few years or the actions of the government in Zimbabwa. Imagine the international outrage and negative media coverage if a US Republican party youth movement leader led a all white group in singing a song that called for the enslavement of US blacks.

IMO the policies of the Colonial era in Africa so damaged relations between the European settlers and the native blacks that there is no way to for them to have healthy race relations.

The only way I could see to keep the number of settlers stable, is if you had a partition like was done in India, where a small "white/colored" nation is formed and all the whites/Indians/Asian/mixed people are force to move there.
 
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yourworstnightmare

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Also, there were always much more males than female whites, which always meant many white men got mulatto offspring, and many people who identified themselves as Italian and Portuguese were not white.
 
In Libya it is plausible:

We need to have Italy neutral in WWII and continues to settle the coastal coast with Italian settlers and ones oil is discovered, more money and resources to Italy. I think it is the only African country plausibly to have majority white population due to its proximity to Italy and Italy needs to decongest Sicily that's why they encourages white settlement in Libya.
 
In Libya it is plausible:

We need to have Italy neutral in WWII and continues to settle the coastal coast with Italian settlers and ones oil is discovered, more money and resources to Italy. I think it is the only African country plausibly to have majority white population due to its proximity to Italy and Italy needs to decongest Sicily that's why they encourages white settlement in Libya.

I thought most North African and middle eastern Arabs counted as "white."
 
Also, there were always much more males than female whites, which always meant many white men got mulatto offspring, and many people who identified themselves as Italian and Portuguese were not white.

The first time my job sent me to Africa in 1992 one of my very very light skinned African-American co-workers was outraged that his "African brothers" thought he was "white."
 

SPQR

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If South Africa and Southern Rhodesia(that manages to hold on till the fall of the Iron Curtain) open the gates wide open for Eastern Europeans it might change a lot of things there especialy if they work for stopping the coloured population boom.
The apartheid fell in 1994, but with 10 million more whites(most, if not all of the men with military background) it wont go down with ease.
 
Wouldn't extending "whiteness" to mixed race people like the Coloureds go even farther to increasing the population of whites in Africa?

I kind of see the coloureds as an example of the South African one drop rule. Maybe I am wrong there.
 
Wouldn't extending "whiteness" to mixed race people like the Coloureds go even farther to increasing the population of whites in Africa?

I kind of see the coloureds as an example of the South African one drop rule. Maybe I am wrong there.

The American one drop rule or the Latin American one drop rule. Because on a business trip to Brasil, I met a lass who in the American definition would be considered black though she quickly grew mad and claimed that she was every bit as white as me mostly due to her maternal grandparents being Italian immigrants. So I guess the same situation could apply to the Coloureds.
 
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