A More Dystopian Africa

Here's an idea:

The Draka, or someone like them, get established in Africa, but since this is a more realistic TL, they don't spread very far.

Then they collapse due to a combination of falling behind technologically/economically, military defeat, and/or general serf revolt.

Imagine Rwanda, only with many ethnicities and everybody better-armed, all across a significant chunk of Africa.
 
A more dystopian Africa? Prevent Hitler from coming to power in Germany. No Holocaust probably means racist attitudes in Europe continue as before. If World War II is avoided entirely, Europe has no economic reason to decolonise. The various European empires in Africa get more and more stupid, and instead of peaceful decolonisation in the 1950s/1960s you get seriously bloody Revolutionary Wars all over Africa in the 1970s or so. (Perhaps the American Bicentennial becomes the inspiration....)
 
He says 80s/90s pod.

But since we've already gone away from that a way for a dystopian Afirca- no colonialism.
The Europeans don't get interested in carving up Africa and instead you've got the native nations, tribes, etc...left in place....with corporations ready to swoop in and go all Congo Free State on the people there.
 
Ebola mutates to have a slightly longer incubation period allowing a major outbreak in the Congo, to let it spread to areas outside the Congo.
 
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