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I see lots of people talking about having the industrial revolution occur in other places and their effects, mainly say, Belgium, Germany or China and every once and a while India or the Balkans. But never Africa.

So, your challenge is to have the Industrial Revolution occur in Africa. Bonus points if you do it with a POD c. 800, when the camel was introduced to the Sahelian states and massive trade and contact with the Arab World had begun.

What effects would this bring? Would we see an expansion of African states and culture worldwide?
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