I was wondering, with Africa being quite near to India, if India were to end up being the global colonial power like Europe was OTL, would Africa see the majority of India settlement, like North America saw OTL from Europe?
I was wondering, with Africa being quite near to India, if India were to end up being the global colonial power like Europe was OTL, would Africa see the majority of India settlement, like North America saw OTL from Europe?
I was wondering, with Africa being quite near to India, if India were to end up being the global colonial power like Europe was OTL, would Africa see the majority of India settlement, like North America saw OTL from Europe?
Technically you could say Madagascar is an Indian settler colony in Africa if you stretch the definition, given that Malays are also found in India although the colonists most probably came from the Malay peninsula.
According to Wikipedia the Madagascaran people came from Borneo, not the Malay Peninsula. Though I would guess a few probably came from there, and part of Borneo is in Malaysia at least.I'm pretty sure that the only thing Malays and Malayali have in common is having been part of the British Empire and having similar sounding names.
According to Wikipedia the Madagascaran people came from Borneo, not the Malay Peninsula. Though I would guess a few probably came from there, and part of Borneo is in Malaysia at least.
There's a reason why in modern times there's just as many Bantu in East Africa alone as there are ethnically indigenous people in all of the Americas.
That's not really a good comparison, given Bantu not only make-up over 90% of East Africa's population, but you may as well replace Bantu with Romance Languages.
That's not really a good comparison, given Bantu not only make-up over 90% of East Africa's population, but you may as well replace Bantu with Romance Languages.
OK, there's just as many Mandinka as there are Native Americans on the North American continent.
While it is a better fomr of comparison, it's not correct.
Their are only 13 million Mandinka while their are 48 million Amerindians in the America's.
A more apt comparison is comparing the entire native population of sub-Saharan Africa to the entire native population of the Americas. Subtracting Africans of European and South Asian descent, the difference in population gets even more stark.
EDIT: Come to think of it, if we include Inuit in the Native American population, we might as well throw in the native population of North Africa as well. Which, once again, increases the population difference and shows how settler colonies in Africa are facing a very different challenge from those in the Americas.
Which is why I said NORTH America.