Countries from decolonization of africa/ asia

Khanzeer

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Could more countries have emerged from decolonization of asia and africa from 19 40s to 1970s ?
Some that did exist in OTL for a short time like biafra and katanga but were more countries possible and if so which one are most likely to have existed ?
 
Barotseland could be split off from Zambia in a different dissolution of the Central African Federation.

English Cameroon could opt to join neither Nigeria or French Cameroon.

If the British pull some Djibouti-style shenanigans Somaliland may decide to not join Somalia in the first place.
 
- Rio Muni, Bioko, and Annabon as seperate countries rather than a united Equatorial Guinea

- Tanganyika and Zanzibar as seperate countries

- Western Sahara as an independent country

- Somaliland, from British Somaliland, as a country separate from Somalia

- Bantustans as independent countries (Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda, Ciskei, KaNgwane, KwaNdebele, KwaZulu, Lebowa, QwaQwa)

- Cameroun, from French Cameroun, as a country separate from Cameroon

- Cabinda as a country separate from Angola

- Darfur as a country separate from Sudan

- Oromia and Tigray as countries separate from Ethiopia
 
Is Eritrea possible in 50s?
Eritrea doesn't become strongly secessionist until the late '70s to mid-80s and its independence movements are too fractured to gain much of an effective momentum against Ethiopia until 1980-81, when the EPLF pushes the ELF into Sudan. If you want an independent Eritrea, you'd need to convince both London and Washington to not concede it to Ethiopia.
Oromia and Tigray as countries separate from Ethiopia
An independent Tigray is definitely possible by the 1970s, although an independent Oromia is much less so, especially with the historical weakness of the Oromo nationalist movements.
 
I remember reading somewhere that when Portugal gave independence to Angola, they actually kept Cabinda just like Timor and Macau, but the Angola army occupied it later. Maybe Portugal could retain Cabinda for a few more years and create a republic of Cabinda or something.
 

Khanzeer

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Can we have more countries emerging from the partition of india ?
WI most of the princely states remained independent?
 

Khanzeer

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What is the difference between fatherland and motherland ,?
My dad forever a leftist would say former is only used by patriarchal militaristic nations
But I'm not too sure
 

Khanzeer

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Well, in portuguese we use the therm "Pátria", it comes from "paterno", pathernal, so it is a male substantive. I don't know any portuguese version of Motherland...
And in the subcontinent it's always a term that denotes some form of motherland
 
Khalistan, Kurdistan, Palestine, Sikkim, Biafra, Yucatan (if the Mayans somehow won the Caste war and avoided annexation by Mexico after taking Merida), Hawaii
 
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