CLAIMS:
- Kingdom of the Kongo (Smyg): Central and South Congo Basin, Angola
- Kalahari Protectorate(Smyg): Nambia
- Sultinate of Oman (Gesar): East African Coast, out to the Albertine Rift (incl. Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania
- Theodoran Inhambane: Inhambane province of Mozambique
- Portuguese Cameroon (Marankara): coastal Cameroon and Gabon
- Portuguese Mozambique (Marankara): Northeast and east Mozambique
- Portuguese Cape Colony (Marankara): Southern Cape
- Dutch Boers (Marankara): The rest of South Africa
- Kingdom of Maravi: West Mozambique and South Malawi
- Botswana: Botswana
- Kingdom of ZImbabwe: Kingdom of Zimbabwe
- Lozi Kingdom: Historic Lozi territory
- Magsalay Kingdom (Smyg): Madagascar
- Seychelles (French, Portuguese, Dutch): Seychelles
TO DO:Few areas have had a geography as dominated by one nation as that of Central Africa's fate with the Kongo: Modernist, Monarchist, Christian, and Strong. Their embrace and alliances with Europe starting in the 16th century, allowing them to obtain technology and hegemony over all of their neighbors, allowed them to expand out to their natural borders and extend their soft power well beyond that area. However, it certainly wasn't without eventual consequence: The tribes in East Africa who found themselves to prefer Arab dominion, protection, and wealth, after the Omani Sultanate united the East Coast from Somalia to Zanzibar.
With this tension always at the surface, the south found itself ripe for the seeds of colonization, at Cape Colony and elsewhere, to flourish as the inter-regional tension reached a head with the expansion of the Arab sultanate. The colonies there began to flourish as a always reliable route around to India whenever the Suez found itself in trouble--or one nation hostile to the Venetian council.
Meanwhile, this left the few smaller states in South-Central Africa on their own, trying to avoid being caught up and pulled into either colonial spheres or local regional squabbles. For now, they exist in their independent states doing things insofar as they have so been allowed with minimal interference.
Nothing, except finishing touches. This region is pretty much full.