John Fredrick Parker
Donor
What if, during the Berlin Conference of 1884, Germany didn't make any claims to Eastern Africa, and OTL Tanzania was "given" over to British influence? So basically everything from South Africa up to Egypt is British or under British influence (w/ exceptions of Portuguese Mozambique, Italian Somalia, and independent Ethiopia). How does this change history?
To start, does Zanzibar now continue to hold itself together, albeit as a British client *state*? Is the Cape to Cairo railway now a feasible project? And depending on how this and other short term changes play out, how does Eastern Africa as a whole now evolve differently? For example, if noted railway makes the region as a whole more accessible, could British East Africa as a whole see more immigration, white or asian, and/or more development (or "development", if its still focused on extracting national resources)? Could a larger contiguous colony or colonial sphere lead to a more cohesive national identity or set there of when decolonization arrives? What other large scale changes could we be looking at here?
To start, does Zanzibar now continue to hold itself together, albeit as a British client *state*? Is the Cape to Cairo railway now a feasible project? And depending on how this and other short term changes play out, how does Eastern Africa as a whole now evolve differently? For example, if noted railway makes the region as a whole more accessible, could British East Africa as a whole see more immigration, white or asian, and/or more development (or "development", if its still focused on extracting national resources)? Could a larger contiguous colony or colonial sphere lead to a more cohesive national identity or set there of when decolonization arrives? What other large scale changes could we be looking at here?