Gone ahead and expanded on Africa--really happy with how it looks now.
Three great Revolutions have defined the millennium: the French, the Russian and the Iranian. In 1979, Iranian students, bazzaris, clerics and the military joined together to throw out the American-backed Reza Shah Palhavi, establishing the Islamic Republic of Iran with Khomeini at it's head. Following a brutal power struggle between the various wings of the Revolution (including a brutal war against Iraq), a new, liberal democratic regime was established against all odds in what many call the "Miracle of Tehran". Khomeini, who had been sidelined during the power struggle, became the spiritual leader of Iran and a symbol of Anti-Imperialism much like Gandhi 3 decades prior. This sparked a series of social and political changes across Asia, known as the Dahe-e-Farj--Decade of Dawn.
39 years hence, and the world is completely different. China underwent democratic reform, transforming into an intra-party democracy; a liberalized Soviet Union let go of her vassals; an Indian civil war against Hindutva fascism was fought and won; and Europe made the step towards integration. Africa however, is still trapped in the age of Revolutions.
Southern Africa is dominated by a soft-Apartheid South Africa that looks terribly out of the place. TTL Apartheid had a stronger emphasis on the Bantustan system, with the rhetoric that "Apartheid is good for blacks" being strongly advertised. There is a ruling class of Boers and Anglo South Africans, a middle class of East and South Asians, and finally the lowest rung of native Africans. Aggressive Protestantization and cultural Westernization has transformed the richest areas of Petoria into a gated community that looks like something straight out of the Benelux; but also creating sprawling slums that house "kaffars" (blacks) who are slave workers in all but name.
Kenya, Tanzania and other East African state have created Mashariki Federation in opposition to the South Africans. It is, as a polity, the premier economic, military and geopolitical power on the continent, and is aligned with the Iranian-led "Third-world bloc" as a somewhat Conservative Democracy. Mashriki forces are heavily involved in UN peacekeeping operations in the Congo, and is not afraid to show it's displeasure with Christian extremism in Ethiopia.
West Africa is dominated by a triple entente of democracies: Nigeria, Senegal and Ghana. Unlike OTL, the Pan-African movement has actually been somewhat successful, with Africans being able to share a hatred of South African imperialists and Egyptian dictatorship. The triple entente is logically dominated by Nigeria, which trasitioned to a federal system following the Biafra War, soon choosing to align with the USA. Ghana is the poster boy of African independence, being the first to break free from Imperialism. "Nkruhman socialism" dominates the country, with the Ghanans being therefore fiercely opposed to any foreign meddling in African affairs. Finally, Senegal is aligned to European interests, emphasizing their lingustic and cultural ties with France. Senegalese legionnares are the single largest foreign contributor to the French Foreign Legion.
Egypt went through a Neo-Nasserist coup in the '70s, establishing a Islamic Socialist Republic more akin to OTL Khomeini's Iran than anything. The Egyptian ISR aggressively expanded beyond it's borders, entering an unholy alliance with the Saudis and given free rein to take charge of Societ assets in the African Cold War following the Soviet Union's withdrawal from the third world. Following their victory in the "War of Zionist Aggression", the Egyptians were catapulted into international infamy, and is seen as too big to fall by many democratic powers.