WI: Carthaginians colonize West Africa?

You don't need to export Malaria to Europe, as it was already very common in the southern parts of the continent. One of it's names is even the `Roman Fever´. There are also reports of some Greek cities losing large parts of their population due to Malaria outbreaks.

Anywhere you get Mosquitoes you get Malaria. Even in the moors of northern europe you can get malaria, during hotter years, so I don't think malaria is going to totally prevent colonization.

Other diseases like Yellow Fever (which may not have been around yet) are a different story though.
 
At present the main African variant of malaria (P. falciparum) is much worse than the main Eurasian variant (P. vivax). Africans are almost totally resistant to P. vivax, which historically got Europeans sick, but didn't have the lovely side effects like coma and liver failure of P. falciparum.

Judging by OTL, it should be possible to ensure malaria does not become endemic in the Canaries or Cape Verde. In contrast, somewhere like Fernando Po is destined to be a hellish place for Eurasians. Really there's nowhere between Cape Verde and Namibia on the coast that Eurasians could have settled before quinine.
 

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At present the main African variant of malaria (P. falciparum) is much worse than the main Eurasian variant (P. vivax). Africans are almost totally resistant to P. vivax, which historically got Europeans sick, but didn't have the lovely side effects like coma and liver failure of P. falciparum.

Judging by OTL, it should be possible to ensure malaria does not become endemic in the Canaries or Cape Verde. In contrast, somewhere like Fernando Po is destined to be a hellish place for Eurasians. Really there's nowhere between Cape Verde and Namibia on the coast that Eurasians could have settled before quinine.

In which case, would it be fair to posit that the only colonies to potentially survive would be either?

1) Totally isolated from malaria

2) Hybrid Carthagianian-Native stock

3) Punic-Influenced/Punic-ified Natives that view themselves as Carthaginian.
 
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