Muluwheyo, The African dream that could have been....



This is going to be a short 1 page article. The POD is that colonial rule worked in Africa. What would have a nation been like if the empire had held out much longer, say until 1972.....

Stats

 * Size- 434.5 sq mi (1,124.25 km2)
 * Colony stablished-1845
 * Population (2010)- 85,000
 * Capital city- Muluwheyo City.
 * Former colonial power- The UK.
 * Official language- English and Omivou.
 * Other Languages- San, Namib, Afrikaans, German Portuguese and a few Greek speakers.

History
The Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão reached the north of the bay, in 1485.

Portuguese slave traders would pillage the enclave for slaves from between roughly 1645 to 1745, taking approximately 500 over to Brazil in that time.

British traders fist arrived in 1835, then French Catholic masonries arrived in 1845, and finally Prussian Lutheran masonries arrived in 1875.

British rule was guaranteed over the territory when Prussia, the Britain, France and Portugal singed the London Accords of 1845 and 1846. An unforeseen smallpox then plague killed 60 (about 10%) of the Bushmen in 1867.

Urban and rural settlements were enlarged as irrigation, sewage and water supplies were improved trough out the enclave between 1895 and 1908 by a small band of Christian British and Swedish philanthropists. The farming of Cassava around Boerburg, Point Portugal, Keizerberg, and Koliki would gradually rise between 1909 and 1918.

In World War 1 it was briefly attacked by a 2,000 strong Prussian army advancing westward from the interior. A brief battle took place near Koliki, in which Lt Tony Smith numerically inferior, but tacitly superior 500 strong colonial garrison forces, along with some 200 native levies, just managed to defeat the advancing Prussians after 2 hours of bitter hand to hand fighting in the scorching savannah lands. Little happen over the next 60 years exit for the Great Depression closing one of the 2 coal mine near Koliki for 10 years, 6 people (5 British and 1 Omivou) volunteering to join the British forces fighting Rommel in North Africa and the 1st tin mine opening in 1947.

A second tin mine opened in 1964 and then a third in 1968, bringing much wealth, prestige and industrialisation (as well as 1,000 British, 80 White Rhodesian and 50 Greek immigrants) to the enclave. As part of the plan to redevelop the enclave and make it ready for independence, the 2 1/2 year long building of Port [Tony] Smith, just south of the old port at Point Portugal in 1968.