So I would like to do a TL where The British Colonize Africa on the same level that they did the East of America and the African Colonies join together and rebel around the same or shortly after the Americans do.
What are you thoughts and comments on this?
Ignoring the
minor disagreement that is taking over this thread...
The question is where in Africa are you going to set them up, whats the reasoning for them being there? In most of the continent you're going to have to deal with Disease (West Africa), Deserts (The North) and Distance (The South). The South's issue is probably easiest to overcome, perhaps if the British beat the Dutch to the Cape, or take it from them? At that point you have to figure out how to get people going down to Capetown which is its own challenge. Especially if the thirteen are drawing immigrants just the same time.
One could go with something akin say to Michael B's
Colonization of Southern Africa by the Dutch TL with the British taking more spoils from an Anglo-Dutch War, but that in turn would make an issue out of cutting the Dutch route to their East Indies Colonies so that another curve ball, as thats not something the Dutch will easily give up, they'd trade their whole West Indies setup to protect the sea lane to Ceylon and Batavia. You'd also have to deal with the fact that competing colonies in the Americas and South Africa would lessen total populations in both sets of colonies.
Shorter term POD relative to the ARW would be to go the Draka route, have the British seize Capetown during that final Anglo-Dutch War, and having the Proto-Boers decide for whatever reason that they and whatever poor people you can send to the Cape and whatever outposts are set up between there and Natal before say 1800 should come together and leave the Empire while the British are Distracted.
Besides that there is any sort of development you can get out of settling past Slavers forts on the West African coast or some seizure of Morocco but those would be really pushing the envelope of plausibility, IMHO.
Interested to see what you come up with for your timeline any way you do it.