AHC/PC/WI: A United Guinea (The African One) Nation

Is it possible for the region of Guinea in Africa to be as united as possible? What OTL countries can be grouped up into this Guinean nation? Can it hold together? And what would it look like?
 
Hello nobody?

Some of us are sufficiently ignorant of Africa to be under the impression Guinea already IS a united country.

The alternative would involve swallowing up some countries until what you are calling Gunea is united. The African Union is rather insistent on maintaining the post-colonial borders and will fight against that sort of change. Or am I misinformed?

Thus we would appear to have to change a political view sufficiently widely held to be AU policy for decades. That would change other parts of Africa as well. What wars would be started as part of 'reuniting the homeland' policies?
 
Most of the region was colonised (or taken over from Germany) by Britain and France, so one POD would be one - or both - empires administers all its Guinea colonies as one for easier bookkeeping. That means that during independence, there's a large "Guinea Republic" (or whatever) that could either conquer the smaller nations or convince them to be absorbed into it for the extra money & power.
 
Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Toure talked about uniting Ghana and Guinea but it would not have gone over well. Toure made Nkrumah "co-president" after the latter was booted out of his country.
 
The French admiistered their colonies as French West Africa and French Equitorial Africa yet upon independence all the component parts became separtate states except the short lived Mali Federal of Senegal and Soudan (now Mali). Senegal and Gambia tried Senegambia and that didn't work. And the existing states in the region have enough problems keeping themselves together with the effects of tribalism and regionalism. To get Greater Guinea who have to butterfly away both the early coastal colonization to get one colonial power that administered the entire area directly (no indirect rule of GB is out) and as a centralized whole and took great effort and expense to invoke a sense of Greater Guinean nationhood as a Francophone state in the French Community. Or WWI is a Deutscher wank and they take the entire Guinean region and smash it into one political unit with their usual colonial tact and decorum. And some day declare the Greater Guinean Empire and stash a young Hollenzollern on the throne!
 
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