decolonization

If the Soviet Union, without Stalin, ceased to exist between 1950 to 1952, what do you think would be the main consequences? For one, assuming other elections in major countries (USA,UK, France and so on) went unchanged up until December 1952, I think the first change would be that there would...

Historically, China was a country that, to put it mildly, had a rough 19th Century-to-Early 20th Century with the Century of Humilitions, foreign Spheres of Influence, concessions in most coastal cities, and the British, French, Russians, Germans, and Japanese all having at one point enclaves in...

Before WW2 most of the world was ruled by European Empires. But WW2 bankrupted those empires. Britain could no longer afford to occupy India so it was given Independence. Netherlands was forced give independence to Indonesia and Britain was forced to give up Suez canal because of economic...

Historically, Authenticite was a policy enacted by Mobutu Sese Seko's regime in which the regime sought to eradicate what it saw as "lingering influence of colonialism" and "the continuing influence of Western culture" through a program of renaming cities, the country, and even the people (in...

Hello everyone, I've been thinking about the possibility of more microstates, born from trading posts, dotting the landscapes of Africa and Asia. maybe a more nuanced 'Scramble for Africa', characterised not by sweeping territorial grabs, but by strategic alliances with local kingdoms. In this...

In a situation where fascist Italy remains neutral through WW2, I became curious as to what might happen to East Africa. Everyone always seems to focus only on Europe and Libya, but Italy also had territory in the Dodecanese and East Africa (esp. after the invasion of Abyssinia). Assuming...

What if India had remained united after independence in 1947 instead of being divided into two countries? What would be the impact on Asia and the world as a whole? How would India be different from OTL? I assume that whitout the partition, there would be no mass population transfers causing...

Alright. It's 1517, and Ferdinand Magellan has just asked for Portuguese sponsorship to undertake his OTL voyage around the tip of Tierra del Fuego through circumnavigation of the globe. They accept, despite their agreement with Spain, in order to get more accurate maps of the New World and the...

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...

When Africa was largely under the control of European powers, borders between the various colonies were generally drawn arbitrarily without regard to population boundaries. This meant that when colonialism ended, more creativity was needed to come up with names for the newly-independent...

Harold Macmillian's "Winds of Change" speech to the Parliament of South Africa signalled clearly that the the British government had no intention to block the independence of many its colonies, particularly in Africa. As a focal point in the history of decolonization, it marked the confirmation...

if you have not been paying attention, many countries have lost their native monarchies to imperialism (which is why I find it odd that monarchists defend imperialism, British invasions alone ended more native monarchies then radical revolutionary republicanism ever did; in most cases...

What other names could the post-colonial Ivory Coast have received?

After their narrow victory in the 1948 election, the National Party of South Africa retained a majority (and later a supermajority) of seats in parliament until the end of apartheid in 1994. Was there any plausible chance for the United Party to return to power through an election, especially if...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Federation#1960s_proposal According to wikipedia, there was an attempt to create a federation composed of Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya, and the three countries' respective leaders, Nyerere, Obote and Kenyatta entered negotiations to turn this union into...

What if France won the Algerian war for Independence and kept it as a colony or Department of some kind. How would the culture/ treatment of natives etc look.

As it sais on the title, make that at least 90% of all nations in Africa have some sort of monarchy as their form of government instead of the modern 3 official and dozens of subnational monarchies

OTL, Imperial Japan used native officers in the colonies they occupied from the europeans- a large part of why E. Asia started moving to independence to begin with. But what if Japan placed Japanese administrators in the colonies? I have to imagine that decolonization is held off a short while...

A couple PODs: Britain: Alec Douglas-Home manages to get a small majority in 1964. Britain stays East of Suez, the Malaysian Confrontation ends the same way it does in OTL but Britain commits in Aden and the Emergency goes into the 70s ending in the Federation of South Arabia being stable...

IOTL, the empires of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands all engaged in wars in an attempt to retain their colonial empires, from 1940-1975. These wars led to over millions dead and an European economic collapse in 1979, with nothing to say of the impact the wars had on...