White Africa

PoD: in 1903 After the Boer Wars the Whites in Kenya decided to advertise immigration to the colony and will eventually become another British dominion. And a little more White Africa.

First Days: 1903-1914
1903: Leader of the settlers in Nairobi William MacKinnon travels to Britain and Europe telling of a land of adventure and riches, were one in the downtrodden Austrian Empire can find work and hope. After the quickly advertising campaign in Europe some 20,000 people leave to travel to Kenya. Mostly from Austria, Russia, and Italy these settlers are welcomed by the small amount of whites in the colony which had arrived in the 1890s.

1904: Small groups of settlers continue to arrive and populate parts of the Mau-Mau plateau. Other whites mainly of Italian decent settle in Mombassa. Other Europeans mainly of the middle class and that of farmers come to the country side and spark up plantations hiring blacks to do the the work.

1905: James MacDonald and John Pringle of the Imperial East Africa Company travel to the far of nations of Latin America and Russia to raise awareness for immigration. The "New Life" Plan is passed into law by the Colonial Parliament. With some overcrowding in the major cities of Nairobi and Mombassa the IEAC opens up land in Uganda for grabs. More whites flood in. White population in Kenya has reached 100,000.

1907: Kikuyu insurrection against the whites. The Mau-Mau War is fought for a little over a year. British forces under John French move in with machine guns against the blacks. Yet the Africans have stolen many fire arms from white settlers and fight back. Young Winston Churchill see action in Africa again in the Battle of Nanyuki. He witnesses the destruction of a attacking force by machine guns and artillery. The British and whites storm the Plateau and put the remaining Kikuyu into concentration camps guarded by Imperial soldiers.

1908: The Mau-Mau War ends with German General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck overseeing operations.

1909: The Governor of East Africa, MacKinnon declares the population had reached 300,000 white residents in Kenya and Uganda. Major cities include New Venice which is heavily populated by Italians and Croatians in the city formerly known as Mombassa. Kampala is known as Pringleville after Administrated John Pringle.

1910: In Africa the white population has grown to over a million in East and South Africa combined. Britain grants Dominion status to East Africa and South Africa. Kenya and Uganda are admitted as one with Governor MacKinnon becoming the first Prime Minister. The Afrikaners in South Africa grudgingly accept the status quo with Prime Minister Louis Botha. Investors advertise open land in the former Boer republics for Europeans. Ironically more Dutch move in. In the capital of Cape Town South Africa invests in industrialization along with East Africa. MacKinnon has realized the settler step is over, phase 2 kicks in with the first arms manufacturing plant in Nairobi opened. Other is opened in Georgetown (former Bwindi) and Victoria Iron opens up operating from Salisbury, Johannesburg, and Nairobi.

1911: Germany has also been trying to compete with Britain by advertising white settlement on the banks of Lake Victoria. German poor have only came. Dar es Salaam is renamed Schneestadd and is the capital of the colony of 10,000 whites.

1912: Prime Minister MacKinnon asks John French to supervise the construction of the Royal East African Army. He agrees. Jan Smuts is also sent to observe the training. The REAA by late 1912 numbers 12,000 personnel.

1913: Construction of the Cruiser HMEAS Harold in the chip yards of New Venice. The Dominions population amounts to 500,000 white settlers.

1914: German Ostafrikan white population reaches 17,000. In South Africa Jan Smuts returns home to his country. White population in South Africa is about 3 million as most see South Africa now as a nice climate for Europeans. The RSAA numbers about 20,000 soldiers mainly from the British states. In Livingstone Botha, MacKinnon, and Douglas Haig meet to discuss several scenarios on African wars against other Europeans in Spring. Yet things were gonna change.

The Great War: 1914-1918
1914: War is declared in July by Austria over Serbia. The war in Europe quickly breaks out. The Dominions of Britain and her allies swiftly declare war on Germany. Quickly East African and Rhodesian troops enter German Ostafrika. In Schneestadd the city is thrown into chaos as the REAN and RN bombard the city. The campaign begins to drive the Germans into the jungle. Jan Smuts was in charge of destroying the Germans and there Askari servants. East African troops soon secured Northern Ostafrika. In Rwanda and Burundi the East Africans found the most German resistance in the hills. In Lake Victoria the East African Navy destroyed several German raider vessels. The war in East Africa would drag on till 1917.

1915: Louis Botha announces that South Africa has annexed German Southwest Africa. In Windhoek the German settlers numbering about 10,000 people have declared neutrality in the conflict and are put to work by General Henry Lukin. In North Africa East African troops assist the ANZAC corps in taking the Sinai. Other East African forces would serve on the Western Front and in Salonica.

1916: East and South Africans see action at Delville wood with some Rhodesians. The AAEC is devastated with only less than a quarter of the force surviving the battle.

1917: General Vorbeck surrenders to Smuts after his force took him into British Nyasaland. In Asia the ANZAC and SEAEF under Jan Smuts invades Palestine. With tanks the battle of Gaza is waged as the Zion Brigade of British troops spearheads the assault. In late Summer white African soldiers began to replace many of the British troops lost.

1918: Jan Smuts takes command of the Palestine Front while Lukin commands South and East African troops in Europe. East African soldiers alongside T. E. Lawrence enter Damascus in late Spring. On the Western Front the Allies stormed against the tide of Operation Micheal. In November of 1918 Germany surrenders to the allies.

The Happy Times: 1919-1929
Post-WWI was a great time for the African Dominions. East Africa had a total of 750,000 white. South Africa's white population was approaching 4 million quickly equalizing with the black population. In Rhodesia white settlers number 300,000 in the South, some 100,000 in the North and some 50,000 in Nyasaland. Prime Minister MacKinnon began the process of the occupation of Ostafrika and both him and his partner, now Prime Minister of South Africa Jan Smuts prepared to integrate White Residents into the Dominions. The 1920s would see another Dominion rise in Africa. In 1922 Rhodesia was a land promised for adventurers and and the perfect getaway destination. The some 300,000 settlers grew even more as the "trek south" from East African settlers. Rhodesian whites were reenforced by the Rhodesian Colonial Guard. The RCG made of whites protected white settlers from blacks and natives. In Salisbury in 1928 under unanimous vote the people of Rhodesia and Britain were thrilled as a new Dominion entered British ranks. Rhodesia's total population of 500,000 was further secured by economic immigrant flow from Germany. In South Africa Prime Minister Smuts in 1924 won the election against the National Party by 80% as 80% of South African whites were non-Afrikaner. Other British territories were lacking population. Australia was under populated even as it advertised the Outback. Most settled in the eastern cities and in Perth. This lack of people in the nation of about 5 million now mainly situated on the East Coast began to worry. Arthur Huntington from Darwin wrote the "Desolation" series of book set in 1980s Australia depicts the total collapse of government after 2 more major great wars against Germany and Russia devastated the world as the USA faithful to Russia thanks to a war against Japan turned on Britain. The novels are set to have the earliest predictions of mass extermination by super weapons mainly Huntingtons "Type 4" Gas and the "Hell bombs" which wipe out entire cities in one strike. In 1923 construction of the Cape-Cairo Railway began. In multiple points notably Cape Town, Salisbury, Tanganyika City (former Schneestadd), Nairobi, and Cairo. But by the late 20s times were changing.

The hard times: 1929-1939
1930: The Depression hit the world hard, factories and stores closed as money became almost worthless.

1931: In East Africa, some citizens impacted heavily by the depression leave for Australia. In Georgetown, Andrew Anderson is elected Prime Minister of East Africa. His partner Jan Smuts now believe that the only way to jump start their economies, through production and trade.

1932: Some people begin to head for the lowlands of central Sudan setting up towns and farms on the grass plains.