Alternate Africa (based on Ethnic groups)

So i made that map for my alt. History world. Africa is based the borders on Ethnic groups. Now i wonder how the new countries would be called ?

Can someone help me please ?? Or is there anything i should perhaps change in the map.
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Interesting map you've got there! I guess the names of these nations would depend on the nations drawing the borders. They could be names derived from Latin, or other European languages, from Arabic, or even from Chinese, if in this world China seized Africa of parts of it. Or more likely, they'd have indigenous names, maybe with foreign spellings.
Looks like the Democratic Republic of the Congo/Zaire has the same problem here as in our timeline: it's too large, and encompasses too many unrelated ethnicities and language groups.
 

Wolfpaw

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Butf i based those borders on the ethnic groups, wouldn't that make Africa more stable ?
Not really, especially since Africa is nowhere near that clear-cut regarding ethnicity. It also means that those minorities that are caught within the nation-states are going to be viewed as a fifth column when war breaks out with neighbors. Nor has shared ethnicity prevented peoples from trying to wipe each other out for other reasons.
 
So the original borders ( the modern ones of the real world ) would be better than my verison ==
 

Wolfpaw

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So the original borders ( the modern ones of the real world ) would be better than my verison ==
Neither set of borders is "better" than the other; I just fail to see how divvying Africa up into nation-states would "better" the situation.
 
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