Europeans in Africa

How come the only noticeable populations of Europeans living in africa are white South Africans? Did other colonies discourage settlers? Or was it just the only place in African where Europeans chose to settle due to trade routes and shit?

Germanics are naturally suited to be master craftsmen and explorers/settlers, they are superior when it comes to colonizing and also in general

Sheeeit... this doesnt exactly answer anything for me

It was the only region with vast amounts of arable land that wasn't already densely populared or jungle

You asked why the dutch germanic boers (which includes south africans commonly even when they're not boers) are the most noticeable white population in africa, that's the reason right there even if you dislike it due to anti-white bias

In Lettow-Vorbeck's book he claims that Germany had plans to turn German east Africa into a settler colony that would support a population equal to that of Germany itself, but their plans got aborted because of ww1. The period between European colonization and the end of colonialism was extremely short for most of Africa apart from south Africa which had been settled by the Dutch in 1650's.

>German colony equal in size to Germany

Shit would have been insane, why is our timeline so boring?

several colonies had sizeable white settler populations, but the general trend is the vast majority left after each colony became independent

Algeria had a lot of French settlers (the pied-noirs) but they were expelled after Algeria became independent in 1962
there were over 1 million of them, and they made up 10+% of the Algerian population

some 60,000 Britons settled in Kenya, but half of them left after independence (I know some people with family connections there)

Namibia has quite a bit of white people left - 5%, or ~100,000

Portugal had up to 1 million settlers leave after it lost its colonies

Morocco's Spanish population was in the hundreds of thousands; similar to Tunisia, although with French/Italians

and of course Rhodesia, which was at most 4% white (close to 300,000 people) in the mid-70s

South Africa could've been a white paradise. You could have prevented negro dominance.

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Walus said:
>They (the ANC) are communist and they will destroy this wonderful country. They will squander all that was built here by Whites with such difficulty. It pains me that everything here will be destroyed in the name of a multiracial Utopia that will never work here. They want freedom and democracy. In a few years freedom and democracy will be all they will have.

So how come they didn't settle in all the other dutch and german colonies? I think it's rather due to the vast ressources of South Africa and the relatively mild climate there.

>How come the only noticeable populations
This is false, though

Don't worry, you basically colonized Brazil, and other South American countries, post WW2

I unironically support genocide upon any White Africans who live in Africa. If you don't like the Blackman then don't come to his continent.

Namibia has a good chunk of them too, you just never hear about it because nothing happens there.

Because the southern tip was quite sparsely populated to begin with? The place was like Australia and by the time europeans sailed there, east african migrations had barely reached it. The bushmen got kicked out and into the desert by two different invaders at the same time.

Don't you know whites where there first you mong

>insulting civ 4
Fight me irl fagget.

Father was white Rhodesian descendent of Brits/Dutch and mother white Mozambican from
Portugal.

Basically there are none because they had 2 choices

Flee
Die

Take your pic.

Because Europeans typically settled lands that had:
1. Temperate climate
2. Low native population density
3. Good soil to support large-scale agriculture and ranching (Wheat, corn, beef, sheep farming, etc)

South Africa, just like other settler societies (Canada, USA, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand) fulfilled all these requirements.

Where the climate was tropical, it was more profitable for Europeans to build plantation colonies (tobacco, cotton, cocoa, coffee, rubber, etc) which were more labour intensive. Thus in these places the natives were subjugated and used as indentured labour (India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Nigeria, etc) or if the native population was too low, African slaves or Pajeets were imported. (US South, Brazil, Colombia, Guyanas, Haiti, etc.)

Basically the answer is 19th century colonial economics as determined by geography.

The only correct answer

Dutch didn't settle at the Cape retard

Because the Boers are in fact the only group of people to settle an entirely new state in Africa early on. Everyone else was just part of the motherland.

>Canada
>Temperate climate

What are the Canadian prairies?

Namibia and Kalahari desert still applies

>19th century
US wasn't settled in 19th century, neither was South Africa or Canada.

because the pied noirs were offered the choice of the suitcase or the coffin. still whites in namibia, botswana and kenya, as well as parts of la francophonie.

17th-19th century

Africa is not a black man's continent you ignorant racist.

Whites lived in Africa since the dawn of times. Egyptians were white as were the Nubians.

So if south africa wasnt the only place with large amounts of European settlers, during the height of colonialism what were the centers of "white africa"?

It's a climate thing: europeans pretty much only live in the temperate zone.

Yet

Leave the daki out of this

Whites gave the niggers civilization.

Being alt-right isn't an insult so being associated with civ4 is a good thing.

>Being alt-right isn't an insult

tropics too spicy for whypipo

I never thought of this before, but ya that's pretty accurate.
>t. white and hate hot/humid weather

>he's still alt-right

I think the causes are economic rather than just "white people hate hot climate".

See

There are several Whites living in Mozambique and Angola too

How are they doing?
I hope better than the ones in South Africa

>being alt right isn't an insult

>samefag

This is what aut-righters actually believe.

>Did other colonies discourage settlers?

Not worth it.
Portugal in the 20th century had large migration to Portuguese Africa but that's because Portugal was completely shit back then to the point that jumping to Africa where the government actually did stuff to improve the lives of European people was worth it for the largely poor masses and for the middle class that wanted to strike rich in the African frontier.

Whites did settle in various other parts in notable number. Notable being large enough the the colonial government made laws to cater and dick suck the settler population compare the Uganda and Kenya with the former having a tiny population of euros vs Kenya which did have large numbers of them.

the ones in South Africa are dong well though.

>what are white Namibians

Define what you mean by height? Like when all indigenous entities were conquered by Europeans with the second Italp-Ethiopian war being like the start of it?

Europeans tried to settle all over Africa for the most part, but Southern Africa just happened to be where they were the most successful and where the most stuck around once the shift to majority rule.

Cape Colony ended up being the first major white settlement in Africa for a bunch of reasons. Pretty much the entire Atlantic coast was fairly inhospitable to European settlement, being either desert (Sahara and Namib) or disease-ridden tropics. For reference, attempts by the Brits to establish white settlements in Sierra Leone saw half the settlers dead in 6 months. Cape Colony, meanwhile, was relatively temperate and, while it had a significant native population, it was considerably less advanced than those around the rest of Africa. Most were pastoralists, and the polities you did have (like the Zulu) tended to be the kind of hegemonic states you'd see among the nomadic Central Asian tribes.

Cape Colony was originally established just as a stopover point for ships rounding the Cape, but Dutch management of the colony saw settlers attracted. When the Brits took over, that trend continued. Over the years, white settlement moved north. The Boers threw an autistic tantrum when the British outlawed slavery and suggested maybe giving blacks equal treatment under the law and fled northeast to form the Orange Free State and Transvaal. Later British settlement would extend further north into Rhodesia and Benchuanaland/Botswana.

Outside of that, however, attempts to really settle Africa by Europeans didn't come until the Scramble for Africa. Kenya, for example, wasn't really considered for white settlement until nice arable land was found inland. France did try to settle Algeria, and there actually was a significant French population in North Africa. Angola and Mozambique also had some significant populations, while Belgium went out of its way to prevent whites and generally even civilization from reaching the Congo.

>cont

I mean, that's what happens when you build a white country on a content full of niggers. How the whites didn't have the foresight to see that I will never know.

But when decolonization began, many whites began leaving. In countries with more favorable circumstances of transition (mostly the British ones), you tended to have more whites stick around, although that wasn't always the case - Kenya saw a mass exodus of much of its white population. Where there was conflict, however, the whites usually left. Most French fled Algeria after its brutal war for independence, and the Portuguese withdrawal from its colonies saw almost all of the white settlers go with them.

Generally, with how much of a shitshow Africa was in the years since decolonization, many of the whites who didn't leave immediately would leave eventually. But there's still significant white populations in Africa, particularly in the southern end of the continent. Hell, the vice president of Zambia was even a white guy in 2014.

>Hell, the vice president of Zambia was even a white guy in 2014.

he was pres for a bit until the election for the next guy. He was vice pres for 3 years

>while Belgium went out of its way to prevent whites and generally even civilization from reaching the Congo.

Completely false

>Completely false
Really? Obviously I was exaggerating, but from what I've read the Belgians actively discouraged permanent white settlement in the Congo and tired to suppress anything resembling Western ideals lest the Congolese start to get uppity about freedom and whatnot. Care to clarify?