Africa is in a really bad place already. But was it possible things could've been even worse? What would be the worst realistic scenario(s) for postcolonial Africa after the end of WWII? It can be indirectly caused by events outside Africa. But regardless, how even more screwed can Africa get?
Screw Postcolonial Africa EVEN Harder Than OTL
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Instead of giving full independence to the African colonies, they Ally with smaller ethnic groups to oppress larger ones.
That's a rather broad statement for an entire continent. Sure parts of it have had a bad history and parts of it aren't doing well today, but classing all of it as 'in a really bad place' comes across as at best ill-informed.
More countries follow De Gaulle's example with Guinea when they refused to join the new French Community. IIRC France repatriated all of their citizens taking with them their knowledge, anything of value that could be removed from the country was – I believe they even ripped the copper wiring out of the telephone exchanges, anything that couldn't be removed was destroyed or rendered inoperable, all trade and aid was immediately stopped.
1.Nelson Mandela gets assassinated and South Africa does not end apartheid peacefully, but rather via a race war that scars the country. 2. The democratic republic of the kongo becomes a full on failed state at least as bad as otl Somalia because of warlords, civil war, deforestation and development exposing population centers to new or existing diseases like otl Ebola which bog down already limited medical resources which are needed for the civil war/warlords and absorb solders which are needed to take on the civil war/warlords because they are needed to maintain quarantine or risk the outbreak spreading. 3. Somalia bites it harder resulting in British Somaliland becoming independent and religious extremists like otl al-shabaab taking over the rest of Somalia. 4. France tries to hold on to all of Algeria and after years of fighting decides to cut its losses and only occupy north Algeria as south Algeria is just one giant money sink because
it's a desert. 5. Egypt never regains the Sinai peninsula and loses the suez canal after a successful French, British, Israel win in a alt Suez crisis. At some later date they attempt to build the Sahara sea with nukes and the settlements that pop up around the area and use the water for irrigation acquire extensive radiation poisoning possibly scaring the ecosystem for generations. 6-7. Morocco and Mauritania get into a protracted war over Western Sahara with both nations having irredentist claims on it and surrounding areas. 7. Muammar Gaddafi decides to become the Sudan Hussain of Africa and pushes arab nationalism by invading and annexing Tunisia. 8. Zimbabwe's longtime leader and Hitler mustache modal, Robert Mugabe decides to go all in on his controversial stances (I could see him escalating into a one-sided race war that would echo the worst aspects of WW2) 9. Northern Mali conflict turns the country into a failed state that fractures or gets taken over by Islamist extremists. 10. Sudan fractures harder with western Arab, none Arab and mixed portions of the country becoming independent (Darfur?) or joining South Sudan and the rest of north Sudan being invaded by a revanchist Egypt looking to capitalize on Arab nationalism as justification to annex the north Sudan like Libya did to Tunisia in example 7, Ethiopia, and South Sudan join in resulting in a 3-4 (4 if west Sudan (Darfur?) becomes independent) way partition of north Sudan.
it's a desert. 5. Egypt never regains the Sinai peninsula and loses the suez canal after a successful French, British, Israel win in a alt Suez crisis. At some later date they attempt to build the Sahara sea with nukes and the settlements that pop up around the area and use the water for irrigation acquire extensive radiation poisoning possibly scaring the ecosystem for generations. 6-7. Morocco and Mauritania get into a protracted war over Western Sahara with both nations having irredentist claims on it and surrounding areas. 7. Muammar Gaddafi decides to become the Sudan Hussain of Africa and pushes arab nationalism by invading and annexing Tunisia. 8. Zimbabwe's longtime leader and Hitler mustache modal, Robert Mugabe decides to go all in on his controversial stances (I could see him escalating into a one-sided race war that would echo the worst aspects of WW2) 9. Northern Mali conflict turns the country into a failed state that fractures or gets taken over by Islamist extremists. 10. Sudan fractures harder with western Arab, none Arab and mixed portions of the country becoming independent (Darfur?) or joining South Sudan and the rest of north Sudan being invaded by a revanchist Egypt looking to capitalize on Arab nationalism as justification to annex the north Sudan like Libya did to Tunisia in example 7, Ethiopia, and South Sudan join in resulting in a 3-4 (4 if west Sudan (Darfur?) becomes independent) way partition of north Sudan.
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dropshot ww3 happens and most of africa collapses into political/tribal infighting in the war/immediate postwar era
How so?
Isn’t that what the OTL colonies were? Also depends on which ethnic groups as well.
Yeah good point.
Wouldn’t those governments do everything in their power to stop the French from taking much of value?
"We disagree with present economic sanctions and pressures applied to Rhodesia and the Union of South Africa and will seek to have these removed and eliminated. We consider these to be nations friendly to this country and they will be respected and treated as such."
--1968 AIP platform
Savages (and there's no other way to describe the Simbas) running around hacking everyone from other tribes up with machetes and reportedly canaballising them. Spread that over all or most of sub Saharan Africa and it's very screwed.
https://www.military.com/video/forc...re-footage-of-congo-crisis-1964/1697291271001
https://www.military.com/video/forc...re-footage-of-congo-crisis-1964/1697291271001
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No end the Cold War because the Soviets have more hardcore repression and Maoists remain in charge of China to the present would help.
Those are the reports that came out of the Congo during the Simba rebellion, as reported by the survivors of all races.
https://www.military.com/video/forc...re-footage-of-congo-crisis-1964/1697291271001
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Sorry I thought you talked about something else. Never mind.
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Banned
Encourage regional intra state conflicts
Ala the great lakes wars in late 90s 2000s
E.g Ethiopia sudan Egypt war over water issues
Export CW to these nations to encourage their indiscriminate use
Extensive use of landmines in african conflicts
Use Sahara for nuclear testing
Encourage asian/ indian settlers in most prosperous African countries
Private mercenary companies employed by big corporations battle african states for control of their national resources
Encourage Arab slave trade aka " migrant workers" human smuggling from east africa
No sanctions on apartheid SA and encourage their expansionism
Ala the great lakes wars in late 90s 2000s
E.g Ethiopia sudan Egypt war over water issues
Export CW to these nations to encourage their indiscriminate use
Extensive use of landmines in african conflicts
Use Sahara for nuclear testing
Encourage asian/ indian settlers in most prosperous African countries
Private mercenary companies employed by big corporations battle african states for control of their national resources
Encourage Arab slave trade aka " migrant workers" human smuggling from east africa
No sanctions on apartheid SA and encourage their expansionism
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