africa

Here's an interesting thought experiment. What if the post-colonial relations between Britain and former colonies in Africa and Asia were more like post-Soviet relations between Russia and the Baltic States. By that I mean: No Commonwealth or any 'post-colonial' organisation uniting the...

Link to map This month I've been working on a novel set in an alternate timeline wherein the ancient Egyptians colonized the coast of Greece circa 1900 BC, during their Middle Kingdom. The inspiration for this premise comes from certain legends the Greeks had about Egyptians settling on their...

I'm looking for any timelines focusing on 20th century African History like Decolonization or the Congo?

Rather than making all of africa a territory of european protectorates, more african states achieved to pull... well, not a "mejii" but at least an Etiopia or Siam, bonus if no territorial concetions and for greater autonomy than a central american country under USA orbit.

Please forgive if this seems rushed, this is my first real timeline. In 1987, the Burkina revolution continues. Little known is Blaise Compaoré is plotting to seize power for himself. However, an attendant of Blaise, fearing for his own saftey, "snitches." The latter part of the year, the...

In my TL, West Africa is developing several centuries sooner than it did IOTL due to Carthage winning the 2nd Punic War and spurring a large scale trans-Saharan trade to pay off its wartime debts. I have a sahelian state that spans the Senegal and Niger rivers and I was wondering if it's...

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...

I wanted to imagine how these countries might have survived into the present day. My POD's would be Slightly earlier settlement of Angola and Mozambique, so that they have a slightly larger white population. I saw another thread imagining something like this called Angola Avante . Portugal...

The Nile, Congo, and Zambezi (through Lake Malawi) all drain different parts of the East African Rift Valley. If these waterways could be made navigable, they could connect the Rift Valley to the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans respectively. The challenge, if you choose to accept...

What if the Spaniards were able to keep Portugal in the Iberian union? How would this affect the Atlantic Slave trade? How would American colonies develop without slaves or with less slaves?

Goal: Is to have more independent countries and kingdoms, during the Scramble For Africa, such as: Sultanate of Zanzibar Zulu Kingdom Ashanti Empire Merina Kingdom Morocco Muhammad Ali Dynasty Egypt Sokoto Caliphate Tripolitania Dahomey Orange Free State Transvaal and ETC Have any countries...

Following up on the Meiji Inca thread, I wonder how the XIXth century colonial endeavours would unfold if the colonial powers do not have access to the Cinchona Tree and more specifically the Quinine extracted from it. It would mean that medication against Malaria would be far more limited than...

What if the Mali empire didn’t collapse and institute the reforms needed to make sure it survive

So, under King Moshoeshoe I the Basotho kingdom developed a literate bureaucracy, army capable of stalemating the British and Boers, strong national identity, and was able to attain the status of a fairly autonomous protectorate within the British Empire. As a result it exists today with what...

Is there any good PoD, or set of PoD's, to prevent the sudden fall of Samori Ture's militarily competent (and also pretty interesting) West African state, the Wassoulou Empire, in the 1890's, to French colonial forces? If the Wassoulou Empire does manage to survive in the long term, how will it...

Note that I don't want just the names of countries I want the reasons as to how you think they could have become first world.

Here's a tough but interesting challenge: forming an African Empire. The goal is to get a country (an African one) to control the entirety of Africa, from Egypt to South Africa (including islands considered part of Africa). The country you choose is up to you, as long as it is African, and any...

One of those events in OTL that would probably be dismissed as implausible if it was in an ATL is the settlement of Madagascar. The island is usually thought to have been settled by both Bantu people and seafearers from Borneo about 2000 years ago. Today the Malagasy language is Austronesian and...

During decolonization, there were some unsuccessful attempts to make pan-national confederations. The Union of African States joined Ghana, Guinea and Mali between 1958-1963, and the Mali Federation joined Mali and Senegal for two months in 1960. I believe there were several more examples that...

We had significant white settlement in the semi-arid zones of South Africa, why not in the semi-arid Sahel? The Sahel is also primarily out of range for the Tsetse fly, especially in Niger and Chad. This area seems like a good location for European settlement, so why did the Sahel get so little...