africa

  1. Diversus world map

    List of major countries : Francia, Burgundy, Venizia, Aragon, North sea empire, Iberia, Austro Slovakia, Tatarian Empire, Russian rebels, Taiping Republic, Japanese Shogunate, Libyan Empire, Konigsberg, Hannover-Saxe. Date : 1910
  2. Cradle of Civilization in the Ethiopian highlands

    Could a cradle of civilization emerge in the highlands of ethiopia? Are the native crops, geography and climate suitable enough?
  3. Indian settlement in africa (no ww1)

    So when we talk about colonization of Africa we always talk about people of European descent settling into Africa, what about Indians? Could've we perhaps create a few majority Indian colonies (and somewhere in the 21st century, countries) I think about colonial governments importing Indians...
  4. Forth Eorlingas

    AHC: Switch the fates of Eritrea and South Sudan

    Eritrea and South Sudan are known for being the only internationally recognized breakaway African nations and for their poor human rights/development records. Despite surface similarity, the nations have developed on very different trajectories post independence (overcentralized v...
  5. WI: Yellow Fever In Asia

    Please keep the objectifying jokes to a minimum One of the great medical mysteries of history is that, while yellow fever escaped the confines of Africa and became established in the New World (with dramatic consequences for history) it never did so in tropical Asia. I wonder what happens if...
  6. How far would sleeping sickness-resistant horses spread in Africa?

    Let's say that around 300 BCE a pony-like horse breed is developed that is highly resistant to sleeping sickness by Wolof chieftains as a result of mixing Barbary horses with local Sahel ponies (yes, I'm aware that this was done IOTL with no sleeping sickness immune horses resulting) due to a...
  7. Friedrich der Große

    Alternate Dutch colonies

    So, if The Netherlands manage to keep Belgium in 1830, is it plausible that they will set up new colonies, especially in Africa or Asia? The Dutch king William I wanted to make The Netherlands a great power again, and he knew that he needed (more) colonies for that. For example: is it maybe...
  8. AHC : A Prosperous Ghana

    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...
  9. JCC the Alt Historian

    AHC: How Togo would fare under the rule of Czechoslovakia.

    After World War I, there was a discussion about giving the former German Empire colony of Togoland to the newly independent country Czechoslovakia. However, this plan never fell through, and instead Togo was put under French (most of the colony) and British(the small Western section that would...
  10. JCC the Alt Historian

    AHC: Who gets the Congo in Africa if Belgium never comes to be?

    Let's say that the Belgian Revolution of 1830 fails and the areas of IOTL Belgium remain part of the Netherlands to this day. Fast forward to the 1880s and the Scramble for Africa gets under way. Without Belgium's King Leopold II to claim the Congo as his personal property, which European...
  11. African Yugoslavia: Redux Edition
    Threadmarks: Re-Chapter 0: Background

    Background (1940-45) “While In our present day we resent Paris I still must remember what it gave me. I learned of Marxism, and socialism in underground reading groups, and I dreamed of the world to be built in Africa. I dreamt of peace, and I dreamt of close ties to France, yet when I returned...
  12. PC/WI Superpower India Capitalist Dictatorship in 1940s

    Can India fall under a capitalist dicatator like Park Chung Hee in south korea after discontent about failure to conquer Kashmir and unify India ? is it possible modernize India in the East Asian economic model by maintaining artificially low wages and high inflation to avoid middle income trap...
  13. South Africa abolishes apartheid in the 1960s?

    Let's say that, through a series of PODs starting in the 1950s, such as the Progressive Party not forming and South Africa remaining a monarchy in the 1960 referendum (the margin was quite narrow, after all), the United Party, led by De Villiers Graaff, returns to power in the 1961 election...
  14. Alternate Names for Africa

    Howdy all, I’m writing this thread because I need help coming up with alternate names for the continent of Africa. I’m doing an alternate history where there is a nation named Africa, and I don’t want it to share a name with its continent. Assuming all languages and colonization patterns went...
  15. AHC: Africa same GDP per capita as South America

    Is this possible with a 1900 POD or is this considered ASB? For reference, the average GDP per capita of South America is around 7,200 USD. While Africa is around 1,500 USD.
  16. GameBawesome

    WI: "Neocolonalism" in the 19th Century/European Economic Imperialism in Africa

    Alright, this title is an oxymoron, but hear me out. In OTL, the Scramble for Africa was the large-scale colonization by Europeans, where they met in the Berlin Conference, which finalized European colonization and trade in Africa, and is usually referred to as the starting point of the...
  17. X_X

    Realistic independent Katanga

    It is a pretty common trope to have Katanga become independent in a successful dissolution of the Belgian Congo. I'd be curious to see how you'd think the country would be doing today more than sixty years after its secession. Would it be a dictatorship or a democracy? Developed or impoverished...
  18. RonaldReagram

    PC: Whites stay in African countries?

    In order to maintain their colonial empires, European countries had to oversee the migration of hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of their own people to the colonies as soldiers, engineers, pencil-pushers, etc.. When colonialism was no longer tenable post-war and it was time to hand over...
  19. Why did European maps of pre-colonial Africa in the 1800s become blanker?

    During the 1600s and 1700s, European explorers, colonists, and slave traders were aware of various African kingdoms along the Atlantic coast and mapped them out as best they could. At some point in the 1800s however, some of these maps started having large blank spots where kingdoms once...
  20. What would happen to Madagascar if Bismarck died in 1866?

    I am a bit obsessed with the idea that the division of Africa does not happen (at least later). So imagine a world where Bismarck was assassinated in 1866, the Fran-Prussian War did not occur until much later and therefore the Berlin conference did not occur. For this reason, I saw that African...
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