The west african Kingdom of Dahomey had relatively good relations with portugal for much of the 19th century, letters and messanger were sent from dahomey to portugal and brazil relatively reguarly in the early 1800s, and the portuguese had intermitent control of a fort in whydah right up until the 1960s.
During the time period of the napoleonic wars where the royal family of portugal was based in brazil and had withdrawn from dahomey, the king of dahomey even offered him a formal alliance against the french. Later on in the 1860s Portugal attempted to extend a formal protectorate over dahomey but failed and it was the French who ended up conquering it.
But in the 1830s, when the portuguese fort was still abandoned, there were negoitations between Dahomey and Brazil in which dahomey would become a protectorate not of the portuguese but of the independent empire of Brazil and Brazilians would man the portuguese port in whydah.
Obviously those negotiations didn't go anywhere in otl, but what would you need to change about brazil for them be willing to take this offer and how would portugal, the uk and france react to brazilian colinization in africa?
During the time period of the napoleonic wars where the royal family of portugal was based in brazil and had withdrawn from dahomey, the king of dahomey even offered him a formal alliance against the french. Later on in the 1860s Portugal attempted to extend a formal protectorate over dahomey but failed and it was the French who ended up conquering it.
But in the 1830s, when the portuguese fort was still abandoned, there were negoitations between Dahomey and Brazil in which dahomey would become a protectorate not of the portuguese but of the independent empire of Brazil and Brazilians would man the portuguese port in whydah.
Obviously those negotiations didn't go anywhere in otl, but what would you need to change about brazil for them be willing to take this offer and how would portugal, the uk and france react to brazilian colinization in africa?
