>>2233019
Nope.
>>2233024
You with the swahili minority as your starting culture lmao. You tolerate but don't accept your Sakalava majority. You could flip, but you start with 0 prestige
I think conversion genuinely is the play for the pop growth, otherwise you're absolutely hopeless. There's no way anyone else is going to be able to help you in wars before you cap anyway, and your only neighbour starts as the subject of fucking kilwa of all people lmao.

I'm sure someone could do it. If you did literally nothing for 50 years then you should be able to colonize, as long as the black death doesn't get you first