africa

Why did Africa turn out as in OTL, following WW2 and decolonisation? Could the African continent as a whole achive a HDI equivalent of Botswana by 2000? How would the world economy be affected by higher amounts of development in Africa? How would world culture be affected by higher amounts of...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_East_Africa#World_War_I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Campaign_(World_War_I) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelafrika https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/mittelafrika.268913/ German colonies in Africa 1922 (alternate history)...

Decided to restart my Timeline and move the POD to 1960s Middle East 1960s The formation of Ba’athist lead United Arab Federation would divided the Pan-Arab movement into Nasserist and Ba’athist factions. The union of Syria and Iraq formed in 1964 following the defeat of Syrian Nasserist coup...

Preface In the century after the year 1930 massive changes were in store for the ancient nation of Ethiopia. In this year the man who would come to be known as Haile Selassie assumed his imperial title, and inherited one of the longest lasting and proudest nations in Africa. Despite this...

So let's assume that Britain performs very well in the alt-WW2 and Germany is crushed by the Anglo-French alliance relatively quickly (maybe they go to war over Czechoslovakia), meaning Britain retains a much higher level of prestige on the world stage and the US and USSR don't rise as quickly...

Let's say I'm a budding young empire in mid-nineteenth century Europe with an eagerness to prove my imperial might. Assuming the whole continent is up for grabs, where is the best place in Africa to establish a colony? Here are a few locations I was thinking: Egypt/The Sinai Peninsula, for it's...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Order_(Nazism)#Plans_for_an_African_colonial_domain Hitler's geopolitical thoughts about Africa always occupied a secondary position to his expansionist aims in Europe itself. His public announcements prior to outbreak of the war that Germany's former colonies...

Season of Violence: The Fall of Apartheid in South Africa (old draft) First, some background music... This is a timeline based on an idea I have had for a long time - a violent end to the apartheid era in an alternate 1990s. Even after Mandela was released from prison in 1990 in OTL, South...

A Lusophone[1] World The Portuguese influence in the world stage was much diminished in the 20th century. iOTL Portugal was one of Europe's least developed countries even so it continued to control a vast amount of territory spread over three continents as well as linked culturally and...

An idea that has been pounding on my mind for a few days. I heard from here before that the best tactic the Boers could have used for defeating the British in their second war with them would have been infiltration and fast-paced offensives, rather than the drawn-out siege warfare that they...

What would have happened if the europeans had sticked to the previous patterns of African colonization, so no colonies in central africa but only in places were European immigrants can settle and trade posts. The pod could be less protectionist policies, the need for new markets created the need...

While "de-colonising" their African colonies in OTL, de Gaulle/France purposefully split them up into intentionally weak "ruritania"-type countries that were extremely economically dependent on the new Fifth Republic in order to continue their exploitation. The exact scenario doesn't really...

Welcome to The Big, Shrinking World! This is a timeline that is dedicated to alternate takes on pre-existing countries, and countries based on existing ones. If you wish to contribute. Please give me your ideas in the inbox. I already have idea for the British colonies in Southern Africa and...

The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale (fought with intervals between late 1987 and early 1988), was an interesting occurence in African post-colonial history, fought between the Angolan communist government forces of the MPLA with its army, the FAPLA, alongside Cuban auxiliaries, on one side, and the...

The Arab slave trade is not widely known in the western world, but it had a major effect on world history. Here's a bit of information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade (I know I used Wikipedia) In total, 20 million were enslaved (8 million more than Atlantic slave trade) And 80...

Is there any way for the Mahdist regime of 19th century Sudan, created by Mahdi claimant Muhammad Ahmad Bin Abd Allah, to survive till at least the middle of the 20th century as a sovereign entity? Perhaps through its first Mahdi living longer and better sorting his succession? If so, then how...

Jan Pieterszoon Coen was an officer of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Indonesia in the early seventeenth century. He was the founder of Batavia, the capital city of the Dutch East Indies. Coen was known in his time on account of strict governance and harsh criticism of people who did...

OOC: Mods I hope this is okay to post here if not just let me know and I will delete this thread then. It's been a while since I posted anything on here but I thought of something this week and I wanted to post this on here. What is the most ironic thing about myself is that I love numbers but...

Caashooy [Wildcats] by Ahmed Abubakar and the Sharero Band Salaad Gabeyre Kediye just prior to the Las Anod coup "In Moscow, we were taught that revolution is a science, carefully plotted and planned. Revolution is a science, one only needs to study Lenin to see that, but any person who...

Suppose Germany takes an isolationist position after 1871 - it tries to keep together the DKB as long as possible and afterwards allies Russia rather than Austria, for merely defensive reasons, as they'd also drop their colonial projects so as to better relations with France and Britain. Any...