Zanzibar (Napoleon's World)

The Kingdom of Zanzibar is an East African nation located south of the Ethiopian Empire and north of the United Republics of Zululand (URZ). Zanzibar is a constitutional monarchy, with King Amran the current monarch (having been on the throne since 2000). The largest city in Zanzibar is the mainland city of Salaama, directly across the water from the capital on Zanzibar Island. The country is 35% Roman Catholic, 45% Muslim, 10% Protestant and observes 10% indigenous faiths. The primary language is a unique dialect of English mixed with native tongues, and a French dialect is spoken widely in some northeastern parts of the country.

English Colony in 19th Century
Much of the East African coastline was controlled by England following the Napoleonic Wars; English control, in fact, stretched as far north as beyond Nairobi and as far inland as the Virunga Mountains. Much of English East Africa is today part of Zanzibar; the administrative boundaries changed little.

Under the English, Zanzibar was seen as a new beginning for the numerous English business interests that had been ingloriously stripped after the Fall of London. Between 1830 and 1860, there was an enormous influx of Englishmen who came to set up their own homesteads in the untamed African wilderness, and natives were often exploited as farm labor. Nevertheless, when the Irish Republic laid claim to parts of East Africa run jointly by England and Ethiopia, the Bush War erupted between English and Irish settlers, with native tribes caught in between.

The Bush War of 1868-74 often confused the natives; they did not understand fully the concept of land, and ownership. However, with English guidance, the natives were given modern weapons with which to kill the "evil Irishman". The brutality of the natives, who were promised assistance by the English in return for helping them root out the Irish, was unspeakable. Even many Englishmen commented on how the horrors of the African assault against the Irish was far greater than they could ever have expected.

"The question remains, how soon until these angry, vengeful people turn our guns against us?" - John Feedham, Governor of English East Africa, 1872

The destruction of Irish East Africa resulted in peace in the English colony for many decades; until the Revolution of 1909 toppled the English monarchy. For decades afterwards, the colony was run as an independent country; the fledgling Republic of England, and its Socialist successor, cared little for the distant colony. Trade slowed down, and many English, after years living alongside the natives, intermarried.