MoF 02: Decolonised Africa

[Scarecrow]

Ok guys round 2:
This rounds idea is based on Nymain1's suggestion in the topic thread:

Decolonised Africa

The rules: Your map must contain either the whole or part of the continent of Africa during or after the process of decolonisation. A map of Africa during colonisation is not required. The year of the map and the POD are not specified for this challenge.

You have two weeks to construct your map, with this round closing at 10 am GMT on the 26th of August.

Any comments/questions/discussion can be placed in the Topics thread, let’s leave this thread for the maps.

[Jman]

Alright, let's get this thread started! The POD: In June 1964, at the Rivonia Trial, 10 members of the Spear of the Nation guerrilla group (including Nelson Mandella) are sentenced to death for acts of terrorism. The deaths of the so-called "Ten Martyrs" acts as a rallying symbol for black nationalist resistance in South Africa. A violent cycle begins, wherein the guerrillas commit more acts of sabotage and anti-government terror, and the apartheid government responds with more crackdowns, imprisonments, and executions, sparking yet more violence. The white minority's deep fear of race war has become a self-fulfilling prophesy. The map depicts the three remaining white-ruled powers in Africa- South Africa, Portuguese Africa, and Rhodesia- in a state of collapse. The whites fall back to heavily fortified cities as civil war rages all around. Most disturbingly, the South African military is said to be pursuing nuclear weapons, and it seems highly possible that Southern Africa will soon be dotted with walled, all-white city-states which are nuclear powers in their own right.

[catboy637]

I made a map. 2009, so you're aware.

[Minchandre]

Originally Posted by catboy637

I made a map. 2009, so you're aware.

Cool map...is Synai to Israel? If not, why is it independent?

[catboy637]

I cannot disclose that.
Okay, much brighter European Middle Eastern powers make Siani a home for..whomever lives in Sinai. This should help the Middle East truoubles.

[Jman]

Yo, guys...

Originally Posted by Scarecrow

Any comments/questions/discussion can be placed in the Topics thread, let’s leave this thread for the maps.

[catboy637]

Whoopsies, my mistake. I'll shut up now.

[Gandavien]

It's map time!

[Goldstein]

A map of a decolonized Africa that shows the following divergences:

-Mobutu dies before the Congolese independence. Under the Lumunba government, the country fails to control its eastern areas, but reaches a relative democratic stability and more prosperity.

.-Nigeria suffers a much more virulent civil war.

-The French Western Africa gets independece as a single federation... that implodes in epic-scale ethnic conflicts after it becomes the playground of a megalomaniac dictator. Betweeen her ex-territories is a militaristic and insanely expansionist Upper Volta. There is an extense remnant, the Sahel Empire, under an "emperor" that combines Mobutu's corruption, Idi Amin's paranoia, and Bokassa's grandeur delusions.

-Sudan is split up in First Sudanese civil war. South Sudan ends up federating with TTL's Central African Republic out of pragmatic and ethnic reasons.

-East Africa does much better. The Ethiopian Empire is in the midst of an economic miracle, and though authoritarian, it's a good place for African standards, that swallowed a war-torn Somalia. The East African Republic is a federation founded under a sensible "African renaissance" ideology, with a consolidated non-aligned stance.

-A bloodier Algerian war, deriving much later in an Islamic Revolution.

-A Qadaffi analogue emerges in Libya (the main difference being his Arab origin), claiming to be the new leader of Arab socialism. He manages to get Egypt on his board, but his anti-Bedouine policies lead to a de facto independent state in southeastern Libya (after a massive exodus).

-An earlier Rwandan genocide, and an aggresive and expansionist Hutu regime.

-Djibouti remains as a French territory. Equatorial guinea remains as a Spanish territory.

-No green march. Western Sahara gets independence during the Spanish transition. Morocco has experienced greater democratic reforms.

-An alternate, much more violent ANC in south Africa. A civil war explodes in SA in the early 70's, with part of the territory developing a "Revolutionary Republic" (Basically a pseudo-marxist single party state with a reversed apartheid)

-Portuguese colonialism and regime lasts some years more. Angola is relatively analogue to OTL, Mozambique establishes a Revolutionary Republic. After an edgier Portuguese revolution, a Salazarist remnant stablishes his stronghold in Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe... an unstable and psychotic hermit kingdom.


And the map:

[Nugax]

Slighty more divergent one here, sourced from one of the two possible paths my TL (see signature) can take after 1930 (link to 1930 Africa). This one has had the Socialist powers win the Second Great War and decolonise africa at gunpoint with...mixed results. Although the failed states are effectively a continents worth of Somalia to the power of Congo, and are worse off than OTL the Indian ocean nations, North Africa, and parts of the NAU nations have considerably higher standards of living and much more stable governments.

Some notes:
-Namaland is an integrated part of the UK (having the same status as Scotland) as a messy political compromise. Essentially the white settlers refused to give the blacks equal representation and threatened independence and aparteid-esque plans, so the compromise of giving the blacks representation but subsuming their votes in the much larger white population of the UK was taken. The UK government went allong with the plan as after the Second Great War the idea of secure control over Namalands uranium reserves was reallly appealing.
-The Kingdom of Zambezia has a monarch from the Brazilian royal family, and Juan I has acted as a great transethnic figure for unity.
-Malagasiland probably won't end up joining the Zanj as Russia won't look kindly on increased Chinese influence in Africa.
-Dreistadt is a German-Croat ethnic state, as they displaced all the Libyans during colonisation. They got to stay partly due to racism on the part of Russia and America, and partly because neither trusted the other to control the important railheads based there (though with the implosion of the subsaharan states that became less important).
-The NAU is a militant pan-African movement, probably described as Italian-style facists by an OTLer, but is actually doing some good in the countries its invaded.
-How the rest of Africa got the way it is will have to wait for the TL.

[Dutchie]

Full map is here:

Teaser map here:

[The Kiat]

Here's a preliminary map of Africa of 2000 from my timeline.

And yes, I realize a lot of borders are similar to OTL.

[Rekjavik]

My entry. I tried to go with an original concept, since graphics and effects are not my speciality. I also decided to make it more informative, sort of like a textbook. Researching the names was tricky, but I think I can through alright.

[Alex Richards]

My humble little addition to this thread. Black Equality was granted in 1943.

[Legolas]

I used the world map from an old map series of mine as the basis for how the colonial Africa looked like. I could give some details about the countries and rough outline of history, but I don't really want to write all that down. Enjoy

[Desmond Hume]

My humble submission. Basically, WWI goes differently with an early Central Powers victory, but the Entente powers win the WWII analogue with help from Italy while the Ottoman Empire stays out of it. Decolonization plays out differently and slightly later, and over a much more extended period of time with Britain converting most of its colonies to independent dominions in the sixties while Germany holds on to its remaining colonies (it used to have all of the French ones except Algeria too, but after *WWII France got many of them back) until the mid-eighties. France, meanwhile, undergoes a leftist revolution in 1969 and liquidates its colonies a year later, after fighting brutal wars in many of them for 20 years previously to hold on to them. The CAL is loosely allied with the French People's Republic and includes many of the former French colonies as well as other African states with leftist governments-except Algeria, which wants nothing to do with France and has become a close Ottoman ally. Portugal and Spain are both liberal republics which have tried to integrate their colonies, with limited success. Italy remains committed to holding on to its empire, and by the eighties has become something of an international pariah.

[Sapiento]

POD is France winning at Abukir thanks to some brave actions of Admiral de Villeneuve (the OTL looser of Trafalgar). The French Empire lasts longer and is more successful, Great Britain is weaker. When the French loose their grip on the German Confederation in the 1880 the Germans make a revolution and found the German Empire.
Africa is colonized by the Napoleonic states France, Great Aragon, Lusitania and Great Sicily, the United Kingdom and the German Empire (which occupies for one part simply the colony of its member state, the Netherlands). By 1970 the decolonisation is finished.

[wilcoxchar]

Unfortunately I didn't have the time to put more into this map, but here it is.

[Scarecrow]

The contest is now closed! Please vote in this thread here