Africa-South America maps reversed

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OK, taken literally, these maps are clearly ASB territory. I'd say that's especially true of "South America." However, I could actually see some features of the "Africa" map. For example, a super-Egypt in the shape of an African "Brazil": A friend remarked that he could see a TL "where Egypt was a successful imperial power, securing not just the Nile Basin but eastern Africa as far south as the Swahili coast, as well as the Sahel..." Also, the African "Venezuela" looks like a fairly plausible merger of French holdings in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.
 
And that could be a Spanish Morrocco and a West African Union. But outside of West Africa and the mega-Egypt I don't see much plausibility in either map. Except maybe that long thin nation on the Brazilian coast, which could pretty easily be a result of a less ambitious Portugal.
 
The Africa map seems perfectly plausible to me with a different land grab in Africa. If you told me this was a map of Africa circa 1900 it would look very reasonable. Britain takes east Africa, France the south east, Ivory coast territory, and Algeria while Portugal gets that long coastal strip down the south west. Belgium still gets the much of the Belgian Congo even and Spain gets Morocco. The rest is divided up among themselves and the other minor European players. Portugal has done well in this timeline but other than that seems reasonable (perhaps the Iberian Union lasts). The colonial African borders were largely arbitrary anyway.
 
The Africa map looks like Ethiopia pulled a Meiji and wanted to build a canal to the Mediterranean to increase its power.
 
I agree that South America is pretty ugly and probably impossible, but the African map seems like it's not all that bad. Similar to what someone else mentioned, The African "Brazil" could easily be some Empire of Ethiopia, possibly a Caliphate successor state.
 
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