AHC: Create an industrialized Africa

Create a TL in which countries accross Africa become industrialized to either a modest or powerhouse level by the 20th centuary.

I'd prefer to see PODs within the 1800s for my own interest by I will not limit any POD to a specifici era.
 
Well funded and supported Ethiopia - perhaps with a proper alliance with Britain - would have a decent chance at building a significant industrial base that would be self supporting and developing if left to grow until perhaps the 1930s.
 
Thanks. Could you give me a summery of this TL since it seems rather long with its POD in the 1840s and I don't have much time on my hands to read through it all.

I'll preface this by saying you should read it. It's easily one of the best TL's on the board. Don't have much time? Make time.

Basically, Afro-Brazilian Muslim ex-slaves win a revolt (that they lost in OTL) thanks to a mercurial leader who synthesizes French Revolutionary politics with Islam. After their successful revolt, their leader takes them to Africa where they use their superior weaponry and tactics to topple the Sokoto Caliphate, creating a short-lived republic in what is in OTL northern Nigeria. One of the republic's aims is to industrialize (in addition to ending the slave trade), which it slowly starts to do until a series of events lead to internal political struggles that turn out to be ruinous. However, the butterflies flap their wings, and soon other nearby African states are industrializing as well - Europeans as a result start to take Africans slightly more seriously (i.e. accord them slightly more respect) than in OTL, opening the door for broader cooperation (though still horribly one-sided in the European's favour, of course). There's also another new sect of Islam that emerges and makes waves in the Muslim world, and stuff actually happens in South America!

As I said, read it.
 

Hnau

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SPJ said:
Thanks. Could you give me a summery of this TL since it seems rather long with its POD in the 1840s and I don't have much time on my hands to read through it all.

I know NikoZnate told you already, and I don't want to make you feel bad because I totally sympathize with those who have little time (I work 72-hour weeks yo), but Jonathan put a LOT of time into researching and writing that excellent timeline. It really is fantastic. I think its only right to read it or at least part of it at some point.
 
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