African Entrepreneurship Record

Chapter 150: Chapter 140: Three Areas, One Reform

After acquiring all the land along the coast of the Great Lakes Region, these new lands need to be divided into new administrative districts to facilitate management and data collection.

Previously, even the northern part of Kenya was in a state of temporary lack of administrative divisions.

This time, due to the expansion of the Northwestern War, the lands west of Turkana Lake also fell into the hands of East Africa.

Previously, the East African colony had no presence on the west coast of Turkana Lake. The lake itself was a natural barrier, hindering East Africa’s expansion.

Moreover, at that time, the south was separated by the Buganda Kingdom and many tribes, making it difficult for the Western Kenya district to develop westward.

Now, the shores of the Great Lakes are all in the hands of the East African colony, and the East African colony has smoothly incorporated the lands from west of Turkana Lake all the way to Frederick Lake (Albert Lake).

Due to the similar climate to Northern Kenya, the lands west of Turkana Lake are relatively arid and lack water, making them unsuitable for agriculture.

Therefore, the dry lands west of Turkana Lake and Northern Kenya are regarded as the same region. In the previous era, this area also belonged to Northern Kenya, but at this time, East Africa’s occupation of this place was later than the East.

Several seasonal rivers in this region can be seen as a unique characteristic of the area.

Additionally, the only area in the northern part of the East African colony suitable for large-scale agricultural cultivation is the Omo River Basin on the northern shore of Turkana Lake. Ernst straightforwardly established the entire Northern Kenya and Omo River Basin as the Northern District.

The capital is set in Omolate Town. Due to the dry climate in the North, many areas are pastoral lands, so the population will certainly not be large, and it doesn’t matter if the area is large.

Thus, the largest administrative district of the East African colony was born, with the Northern District reaching an area of over three hundred thousand square kilometers, bordering the Three Kingdoms of Somalia, South Sudan, and Ethiopia in the previous era.

In the first half of this year, when East Africa annexed the Omo River Basin, the Abyssinian Empire was being fatally beaten by the British, so the East African colony easily occupied the area.

During the colonial era, many countries did not have detailed borders but rather spheres of influence, such as the tribes in Northern East Africa, which theoretically were similar to the vassals of the major powers in North Africa.

Thus, its suzerain had reasons to protect these tribes, and the Omo River Basin was a heap of Black tribes, some of which were subjugated to the Abyssinian Empire, and some were independent.

The East African colony took advantage of the Abyssinian Empire being busy dealing with the British, ignoring its little brothers, and seized this land.

After the end of the war between the Abyssinian Empire and the British, the Abyssinian Empire now caused a political crisis, and chaos reigned domestically, with various forces busy vying for the throne, so they were even more disinterested in the survival of their southern small brothers.

After the establishment of Omolate Town, East Africa drove all the natives of this area westward, combined with the previous relocation of Northern Kenyan natives to the south for development, leaving the current pure native Black forces in the North of East Africa only in the Somali region.

The Sahara Desert is an ethnic dividing line; north of the desert, including the desert, is mostly white people, while south of the Sahara Desert and the southern edge of the desert are Black people.

Many Black people in Somalia are influenced by Arab culture, so in terms of lifestyle and other aspects, they are the same as Arabs, which is also the reason they can survive the desert climate.

Other regions, such as Northern Ethiopia, are mainly white people and black-white multiracial people. Now that East Africa has driven out all the Black people in southern Ethiopia, without new blood, Ethiopia will only become whiter in the future.

Because in the previous era, Ethiopians regarded themselves as sun-tanned white people, and with East Africa surely eradicating the pure Black forces around it in the future, Ethiopia will only be able to interact with people of non-Black ethnicities.

Additionally, since Northern Ethiopia already had a lighter skin tone, after a few hundred years, it might eventually become close to the skin color of Indians.

Ernst never considered Indians white people; their indigenous people leaned more toward a dark brown color. It was the continuous invasions of northern whites that slowly made Indians look somewhat like white people.

This is similar to Ethiopians, except Ethiopians, after all, are close to Black people and retain more Black genetic characteristics.

By cutting off Ethiopia’s future contact with pure Black people, Ernst could avoid the blackening of North Africa’s northeastern region.

Maintaining the numerical advantage of the white race in North Africa’s northeastern region ensures that the northern part of East Africa won’t be blackened in the future.

The newly established Northern District has its population primarily concentrated in the northwest direction, in the Omo River Basin. During the war, a large number of immigrants entered the Omo River Basin, which is primarily focused on agriculture, while the other areas of the Northern District are mainly developed for pastoralism.

Generally speaking, pastoralism can sustain a relatively small population, so the planned grazing areas in the Northern District don’t have many people.

The development of pastoralism in some areas is actually a forced choice. For example, those areas primarily focused on agriculture, if undeveloped, would have more lush vegetation, while areas developed for pastoralism generally have climates unsuitable for agricultural development.

Besides the newly established Northern District, near the Great Lake (Lake Victoria), Ernst set up two administrative districts in the newly occupied areas based on experience from previously establishing the Great Lakes District and Western Kenya Districts.

Their boundaries exactly match the original territories of the former Southern Four Countries and Northern Four Countries.

However, the Southern Four Countries are relatively small in area, so they need to extend slightly northward, exactly using Frederick Lake (Albert Lake) as the demarcation line.

The area where the Southern Four Countries were located, along with the land between the south shore of Frederick Lake (Albert Lake), has been established as the West Great Lake District, with the capital set in Bujumbura on the northern shore of Soron Lake (Lake Tanganyika).

The area of the Northern Four Countries is established as the North Great Lake District, also including many lands in the northwest direction.

The capital is set in the excellent harbor located in the north of the Great Lake (Lake Victoria) — Kampala.

And because the previous Great Lakes District (Mwanza) is no longer a suitable name, as earlier only a part of the Great Lake (Lake Victoria) belonged to East Africa.

Since this place was developed early, calling it the Great Lakes District was fine, but now the entire Great Lake (Lake Victoria) has become an inland lake of East Africa.

So, the Great Lakes District can no longer be used to specifically refer to the large area centered around Mwanza. Therefore, to differentiate, the original Great Lakes District was renamed the East Great Lake District. Aside from the name, everything else remains unchanged.

In the future, referring to the Great Lakes District will be a geographical concept, indicating the Great Lake (Lake Victoria) and all the lands along the shores.

This time, three new districts were established: the Northern District, the North Great Lake District, and the West Great Lake District. The original Great Lakes District was renamed the East Great Lake District.