africa wank

While there are many timelines about a successful Vinland, a few about China and the odd one about Mali discovering the Americas i have yet to see one involving all three of these scenarios happening at once. handwaving any ASB lets just say that the Ming dynasty was more ambitious and that...

In OTL, Africa has been dealt with a rather bad card, from geography, to deceased to Invaders, what if in another reality, several African civilisation survival all of their hardship and prosper, and enter rivalry. Your mission, should you choose to accept, is with below conditions, create at...

At independence, Ghana was expected to be a beacon of hope for Africa, as it was one of the more industrialised colonies in the continent. It was considered more well-off than other newly independent nations at that time. Its GDP per capita (in 1960, as per the World Bank) was similar to that of...

First off since Ethiopia was a hellscape of violence during the Derg's regime spending most of their resources on crushing rival communist factions, ethnic separatists, and Somalis. So what if first, the Derg made compromises with other communist factions to avoid becoming the hellscape Ethiopia...

Say the Mali Colonize South America and set up plantation colonies worked by slaves both taken from weaker tribes and imported from parts of Europe. Eventually they realize that escaped slaves are easier to find when they stand out from the population so they start exclusively using...

This challenge calls for one or more military leaders outside of the Western World to be able to develop and field small, cohesive and highly organized, professional, technologically advanced, and highly motivated armies that can function in long, extended campaigns that may involve combat in a...

A/N May 31, 2022: I would delete this if I didn't want to keep a reminder of how far I've come from my earlier writing. So, read at your own peril. --- This is the beginning of my 'What If?' Timeline I mentioned in an earlier post. An ATL where the Rozvi (undoubtedly the largest native empire...

The challenge is to have 7 or more de facto independent AND modernized african countries in the year 1914. The PoD have to happen at least after 1700. With "modernized", i'm saying - Modernized Armed Forces - Railway Access - Industry Access - At least minimally centralized government

Jeff Pearce, in his book (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1510718656/) about the Second Italo-Ethopian War wrote: This was not true in the Ethiopian war. Fewer than 200 volunteers would be able to make it to Ethiopia in OTL. But… what if there was a timeline in which this was not true...

Osei Bonsu Asantehene (1804 - 1830) When Osei Bonsu took power over the Ashanti Empire in 1804, the expansion and power of the Asante realms had begun to stagnate. To the north lied the Dagombe, as well as a multitude of weaker kingdoms surrounding them. Relations with these states were...

What if the Nigerian Civil War of the late 1960's, which saw rebellions spring up everywhere in the country (most notably Biafra) and left a lot of infrastructure and economic potential destroyed, had not happened? I mean, considering the country's ethnic composition, some civil strife was...

Let's say the scramble for Africa is nonexistent. In are world much of Africa had states already that were destroyed by the Europeans. How would these states react to the World Wars? BTW independent states include Zanzibar, Liberia, Somali Emirates, Ethiopian Empire (probably bigger), Great lake...