Belgian Congo in the sea of time - a fantasy conworld scenario
Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2021 6:56 am
Belgian Congo moves from 1930 to 500 BC via magic
Two questions to be asked.
1. What does the future hold for Congo?
2. What are linguistic and cultural implications of such a scenario?
Belgian Congo has approx 17,000 whites living there out of a population of 8-10 mln. The whites are overwhelmingly males mostly colonial administrators, officers and missionaries. If some kind of magical force prevents the Congolese people from killing the whites (they have good reasons to do so), how much French culture survives?
There is also an army force named Force Publique numbering approx 20,000 made of Congolese and French officers
The whites are in a precarious situation. They hold the country but have limited supplies of ammo and modern weapons which is not going to be resupplied from Belgium
The country has some modern tech (,railroads, at least several 100s cars, a similar numberbicycles and at least a few aircraft) but no real education besides missionary schools
Few people bar several dozen scientists and doctors are likely to have higher education other than in the military science and there aren't any textbooks above middle school most likely.
Two questions to be asked.
1. What does the future hold for Congo?
2. What are linguistic and cultural implications of such a scenario?
Belgian Congo has approx 17,000 whites living there out of a population of 8-10 mln. The whites are overwhelmingly males mostly colonial administrators, officers and missionaries. If some kind of magical force prevents the Congolese people from killing the whites (they have good reasons to do so), how much French culture survives?
There is also an army force named Force Publique numbering approx 20,000 made of Congolese and French officers
The whites are in a precarious situation. They hold the country but have limited supplies of ammo and modern weapons which is not going to be resupplied from Belgium
The country has some modern tech (,railroads, at least several 100s cars, a similar numberbicycles and at least a few aircraft) but no real education besides missionary schools
Few people bar several dozen scientists and doctors are likely to have higher education other than in the military science and there aren't any textbooks above middle school most likely.