Africa has many resources that you can use to benefit your country like; diamonds, salt, gold, iron, copper, petroleum, cocoa beans, and many others. There are many people in Africa although it was a vast land with no human connection with the outer world until it was colonized. You, like the Europeans, particularly the English, tried to sell luxury goods to the Natives but your goods were not wanted and labeled as unimportant. You being the Strong Stubborn man you are turned back and enslaved the native people for the farming of cash crops, and mining for metals, tobacco, beans, sugar, fruits, silver, and others. Africa is still being colonized today with the building of roads, and railways,telegraphs, and steam ships, but there is still so much land that hasn't been claimed. Learn about new diseases, by corentining people to learn about Malaria, so others will not get sick. By traveling to Africa you can acquire lots of land for a family or your country. Be like David Livingstone and die happily knowing you did great work for your God as a missionary helping African Families convert to Christianity and be able to provide their next meal because they could not subsistence farm anymore.
Take control over the african People, take advantage of there multi cultured tribes with there different languages. In Africa you will have many neighbors that include France, Germany, Spain, and England. Attend the Berlin Conference and set up rules for colonizing, and division. The french had a well established empire in the north ,west and central African regions. They had many resources that are available to you by colonizing near them. Another helpful thing the french can do is be there for you when you are in peril. The Spanish mostly live in the west Africa region they have an empire there as well. They have a well trained army and are very helpful. Move North with the Boers, Dutch farmers, and take place in the Great Trek, fight side by side with your peers as you fight the Zulu and other tribes to claim land. Fight in the Boer War after the discovery of diamonds and gold in South Africa during the 1860's and 1880's when people from all over the world rushed there to make there own fortunes, while the Boers try to keep them out and from gaining political rights. Blame the British for your shortcomings in 1899 and take up arms against them. Join the Boer Republics, a self-governing Union of South Africa run by the British, after your defeat by the British in 1910. Help colonize Africa and signal a change in the way of life for the Africans by your efforts to change the political,social, and economic lives of the people you conquer.
The Gold-Salt Trade: Join the annual trade caravans, that have been taking place since the fifth century, with the Berber people to link the Mediterranean economies that needed gold and the Sub-Saharan economies that needed salt during the seventh to eleventh centuries. Become like the Arab merchants operating in the southern Moroccan towns who bought gold from Berbers which helped later commercial transactions like this to be encouraged and further conversions between Berbers to the Islamic faith. Settle in the north Islamic states there was a high demand for gold which they got from trade, and be apart of the "City of Gold." Be like the leaders of the ancient kingdom of Ghana and accumulate wealth by keeping the core of pure metal, leaving the unworked native gold to be marketed by their people. All of this can be made possible by deciding to settle Africa!
East and West African Slave Trade: Take Part in the East and West African slave trade. Become close with western tribal leaders and trade guns for slaves, and participate in the triangular trade on the west side, or get close to the Sultanates in the Middle Eastern region of Africa. Supply slaves from the inside like the Arabs and Africans, or Tippu Tip and transport Ivory, or send your slaves to be sailors in Persia, pearl divers in the coast, fight for the Omani Army, or work on the salt pans in Mesopotamia. Settle the coast of Africa and cause the emergence of people and culture know as the Swahili. Use your slaves as porters for Ivory, because of its high demand, but don't get caught. Fool Brazilian traders and intercept slave ships from the Zambezi valley and Mozambique with the British Navy.