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Or: the Awakening of the Conquering Lion of Judah.

Noticing the paucity of timelines that deal with Africa & African history, and the fact that many timelines treat Africa with neglect, I've wanted to write a timeline centered on the continent for a while. Of course, from reading African history I've always enjoyed Ethiopian history the most and have always dismayed its almost complete collapse following the Revolution of 1974 and rise of the Derg. So, naturally, I've decided to write a timeline based around Ethiopia and having it turn out much better than OTL.

While I've had many of the idea's for this timeline for a while (cf. the UN-iverse, which is another timeline I'd like to get to after The 51st State), I started writing this after getting writer's block while trying to get last week's update for The 51st State up (the next update for The 51st State will be this weekend, for those few fans I have). This timeline will update erratically at best, as The 51st State will continue to be the focus of my poor writing efforts. The style will be a mostly traditional timeline style and it's pretty rough. It's really a version 0.3, and I eventually want to make it into a version 1.0. I am by no means an expert in Ethiopian history, but I've done my fair share of reading on it and am confident enough to give the timeline a stab.

The timeline will probably stretch plausibility a little bit from time to time, but I'm not going to take Ethiopia from 1941 and turn it magically into an First World OECD country by 2010, armed with nukes, spaceflight, stealth fighters, and everything covered in chrome. But the lot of Ethiopia and the average Ethiopian will be better, its position on all fronts will be an improvement on its condition from 1974, and the country will not sink into the sad, sorry state it is in today. There'll probably be some peripheral benefits for other nations as well.

Without further ado, part the first.
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