The Imperial Domain of Mittelafrika is a German "imperial colonial domain" (Kaiserliche Kolonialverwaltung) which spans much of Sub-Saharan Africa. It is managed by Governeur Alfried Krupp, head of the industrial Krupp family which has numerous interests in the region, from its capital city of Lagos in Reichskolonie Nigeria. Much like India was the crown jewel of the British Empire, so is Mittelafrika the pride of the Kaiser. For more than 30 years Germany has enjoyed of cheap raw materials and labour; tobacco from Tanganyka is made into Hanoverian cigarettes, iron from the Congo is smelted in Krupp steel mills across Europe, oil from Nigeria feeds the Kaiserliche Marine and gold from Ghana is used in Zuse chips made in Saxony. However, such a recent acquisition has costed Germany much in both gold and lives; Britain's Imperial African Army made her bleed during the protracted First Colonial War. As such, Berlin has resisted Africa's ongoing wave of decolonisation, but this has come primarily by force of arms. In turn, numerous insurrections have begun springing up across Mittelafrika. Tangled up in the Vietnam War, it is unknown just for how long Germany can sustain operations in the Second Colonial War.
Mittelafrika is divided into the following administrative subdivisions:
- Reichskolonie Nigeria (Formerly British Nigeria)
- Reichskolonie Kongo (Formerly the Belgian Congo)
- The former colonies of Ruanda and Urundi were annexed to RK Kongo.
- Reichskolonie Westafrika (Formerly French West Africa)
- Reichskolonie Äquatoriafrika (Formerly French Equatorial Africa)
- The former colonies of Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Portuguese Guinea and Gambia were annexed to RK Äquatoriafrika.
- Reichskolonie Kamerun
- Reichskolonie Äquatoriafrika (Formerly French Equatorial Africa)
- Reichskolonie Sudwestafrika
- Reichskolonie Angola (Formerly Portuguese Angola)
- Reichskolonie Tanganyka
- Reichskolonie Rhodesien (Formerly British North Rhodesia and Nyasaland)
Beginning in 1951 with Kaiser Louis Ferdinand's Neuordnungprogramme, the model of governance for Mittelafrika was changed significantly, with the extractive-settler system reformed into a more British-like style of governance involving local leaders in decision-making and promoting greater urban investment in areas such as education, public infrastructure and the German language. This is widely considered, however, to be "too little, too late" and has done little to stem the tide of African decolonisation.