Recaps

East Africa strengthened its cities, industry, currency, intelligence, and overseas influence while negotiating new territories and drawing immigrants into its economy. The arc ended with a Ndebele revolt on the Matabele Plateau, as Lobengula’s forces fought East African troops with secret Boer support.

• Von der Leyen showed Wolfgang’s Austrian delegation Mombasa’s districts and explained East Africa’s urban plans, labor policies, and disease controls.
• Ernst advanced industrial development around Lake Malawi, obtained steelworks for East Africa, and considered new railway standards.
• European powers imposed the Birmingham Peace Agreement, dividing Italian territory, while East Africa took over Mayotte and secured a protectorate over the Comoros.
• Ernst redirected East African policy toward development, built intelligence and arms-production networks, and secured Qing medical assistance and Swedish banknote technology.
• Victor Emmanuel II accepted East African grain for Italy and began preparing an invasion of Abyssinia, while East Africa sold rifles to Yaan Reed and expanded into the Upper Nile Basin through an agreement with Egypt.
• Ernst moved Hechingen Bank’s headquarters to Nairobi, and Constantin inspected Dodoma before ordering the suppression of the Ndebele revolt.
• East Africa established the Zhuhai Trade Zone after Humus secured a land lease from the Tang family, while Lobengula’s forces attacked East African strongpoints and received five thousand muskets from the Boers.

East Africa defeated the Ndebele, expanded its canal and economic plans, and tightened control over Zimbabwe while foreign delegations encountered its growing cities and institutions. The arc ended with Italy launching its invasion of Assab and preparing to fight Abyssinia.

• Constantin ordered Vaskov to begin the Rufiji–Little Rhine canal first and postponed the Wami–Little Rhine routes until more laborers arrived.
• Svit led East African forces across the Luangwa River and defeated Lobengula’s Ndebele army, while Wiggins escaped the battlefield but was later captured by a Southwestern Army patrol.
• Ernst arranged for East Africa to conceal evidence of Transvaal support for the Ndebele rebellion while preparing a surprise attack and expanding trade, agriculture, and investment plans.
• The Hohenzollern Conglomerate partnered with Shanxi and Anhui merchants to expand inland in the Far East, including investments in the Huaihai Economic Zone.
• East Africa ordered the Shona to seize Ndebele captives for canal labor, divided the Shona into tribes under military oversight, and demanded slaves as tribute.
• Li Ge, Ande, and their delegation toured Dar es Salaam and an immigrant transit camp, where they saw the city’s order and prosperity and learned about East African routines.
• Ande and Li Ge speculated that East Africa’s army supported its territorial expansion, unaware they had mistaken immigrants for soldiers.
• Samuel landed with Italian troops at Assab, where the Italian Army drove out the Egyptian garrison, and resolved to keep Abyssinia divided as Italy pursued its invasion.

East Africa expanded its railway, cities, medical services, and immigration operations while preparing to seize the Transvaal and pursuing a scheme to send African captives through Haiti to American plantations. Ernst returned to East Africa, toured Soga, and concluded that First Town was only a temporary capital as the Boer conflict approached.

• Samuel warned Sapeto that Abyssinians might use the same desperate tactics he had faced in Europe, and ordered intelligence gathering before Italy planned its campaign.
• Samuel chose imported Zanzibar rice to feed the Italian troops in Assab, while Egypt permitted Italy to use the port as a base against Abyssinia.
• Li Ge and Ande traveled with the Far Eastern doctors to First Town, where Constantin proposed making them resident envoys and approved plans to organize the doctors into clinics, apprenticeships, and medical academies.
• East Africa prepared to capture the Transvaal, sending disguised agents to map the region and training soldiers for long marches and encirclement tactics.
• Constantin welcomed the arrival of the K-001 locomotive, ordered improvements to Dar es Salaam’s transport facilities, and rode the new railway toward First Town as Ernst planned major railway extensions and rubber plantations.
• After the Great Chicago Fire, Odyssey’s bank sheltered refugees and helped the East African Immigration Office recruit workers, while Ernst approved Thomas’s plan to route African captives through Haiti using forged Haitian identities and American contacts.
• Ernst inspected the Archduke Ferdinand, bought artifacts and books for East Africa, and traveled home after entrusting Tom with European affairs and the conglomerate.
• Ernst toured Soga’s National Library and planned streets before reaching First Town, where he judged its coastal defenses useful but its location unsuitable for East Africa’s permanent capital as the Boer conflict loomed.

Ernst’s forces conquered the Republic of the Transvaal and destroyed the Zulu Kingdom while expanding into Griqualand and Basutoland. East Africa secured a thirty-year non-aggression pact with the Orange Free State as Cape Colony turned to Britain for help.

• Ernst ordered the East African Army to invade the Republic of the Transvaal, and his divisions crossed the Limpopo River and advanced on Pretoria.
• Wiggins organized Pretoria’s defense, but the 111th Division broke through the Boer trenches and captured the city after Wiggins shot himself.
• Ernst dissolved the Republic of the Transvaal and offered its Boers the choice to leave, while most departed for the Orange Free State.
• East African forces defeated Boer troops returning from the Zulu front, occupied Winburg, and took control of the Transvaal’s gold-mining regions.
• Merke annexed Griqualand despite British objections, and Barkley reported East Africa’s growing strength to Cape Town and London.
• East African forces destroyed the Zulu Kingdom, attacked Basutoland, and drove its government to appeal to Britain for aid.
• Cape Colony’s parliament rejected military expansion and decided to seek help from London as East Africa strengthened its position near Kimberley.
• Svit negotiated with Brandt, and East Africa and the Orange Free State signed a thirty-year Non-Aggression Pact.