horn of africa

What would've happened had 1 entity take control of all trade in the horn of Africa What would happen if this maritime thallocratic nation state had expanded further in the indian Ocean by using more developed sailing ships

Could a cradle of civilization emerge in the highlands of ethiopia? Are the native crops, geography and climate suitable enough?

The Sultanate of Adal was a Somali/Harari state that conquered three quarters of Ethiopia in the 1530s and 40s after scoring multiple victories thanks to the skilled leadership of Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi. However, this all came to an end after his defeat and death at the hands of the...

OTL, Egpyt went from 30 BCE to 868 as a province of another power, a far cry from the bronze age powerhouse of yestermillenia. But even pre-roman conquests, Egypt's empire wasn't the largest (even if it was one of the wealthiest.) But the idea of a Bigger Egypt has always fascinated me, and so I...

There has been trade between South Asia and the Horn of Africa since antiquity. What if Buddhist missionaries went there and their teachings caught on among the locals?

Could a more successful Khedivate and later Kingdom of Egypt control Sudan alone without british interference? This would mean a more integrated Sudan around the nile, and the islamization of the south. Also could this successful Egypt have interests in the horn? Would the King of Egypt try to...

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...

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...

Not sure if it was already the case in OTL, yet what if the Plague of Justinian managed to affect most if not all of Arabia as well as the Horn of Africa? Aside from negatively impacting OTL population growth of the Arabs, what other knock-on effects on would this ATL Plague of Justinian likely...