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==In fiction==

* In 1890, [[Theodor Hertzka]] published ''Freeland: A Social Anticipation'' - a novel which predated the Uganda Scheme by twelve years but built on many similar themes. In the book, Jewish adventurers work alongside Kenyans to build an egalitarian society in the [[White Highlands|Kenyan Highlands]].<ref name=":8" />
* The story of the 1904 expedition, as well as an imagined vision of a Jewish state in Uasin Gishu, is told in [[Lavie Tidhar]]'s [[Novella#Versus novelette|novelette]] "Uganda", in his 2007 collection ''HebrewPunk''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Blog on American Literature |url=https://www.flurb.net/ |access-date=2023-05-06 |website=www.flurb.net}}</ref> This is also a theme in Tidhar's 2018 novel ''Unholy Land'', in which a Jewish state called Palestina is established in Africa after the 1904 expedition returns a positive report. ''Unholy Land'' was shortlisted for several awards, including the [[Sidewise Award for Alternate History]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=This 'Unholy Land' May Not Even Be Real |url=https://text.npr.org/665308878 |access-date=2023-05-06 |website=text.npr.org}}</ref>
* Adam Rovner's ''"What If the Jewish State Had Been Established in East Africa"'', a travel guide for the fictional Jewish homeland of New Judea, located in present-day Uganda, won the [[Sidewise Award for Alternate History|2016 Sidewise Award for Alternate History]] award for short form alternate history.<ref>{{Citation |last=Rovner |first=Adam |title=What if the Jewish state had been established in East Africa?* |date=2016-01-01 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781139794718.009 |work=What Ifs of Jewish History |pages=165–186 |access-date=2023-05-06 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|doi=10.1017/9781139794718.009 |isbn=9781139794718 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> According to Adam Rovner the plan was appealing to early Zionists as it "twinned the adventures of [Henry Morton] [[Henry Morton Stanley|Stanley]] with the adventurism of the Age of Empire, stagecraft with statecraft."<ref name=":8">{{Cite book |last=Rovner |first=Adam |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ej_UBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA45 |title=In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands Before Israel |date=2014-12-12 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-1-4798-1748-1 |language=en}}</ref>
* Another [[alternate history]] treatment is [[Yoav Avni]]'s novel "Herzl Amar", הרצל אמר    (Herzl Said it) in which the Jewish state in East Africa is called Israel and has many features similar to the actual Israel - it has a big city called [[Tel Aviv]], its army is called the [[Israeli Defence Forces]], its Prime Minister in the 2010s is [[Ariel Sharon]] and the opposition leader is [[Shimon Peres]]; at its south, near the border with [[Tanzania]], is an impoverished strip similar to the [[Gaza Strip]], dotted with refugee camps of [[Maasai people|Masai]] tribesman who were earlier displaced from the more central parts of the country and who like [[Palestinians]] are seething with rebellion against Israeli rule. But a highly significant difference from actual history is that, though there had been an antisemitic German leader named [[Adolf Hitler]], WWII ended in an Allied victory much sooner than in actual history and European Jews were spared the [[Holocaust]].