Divide it according to the actual ethnic/cultual/lingual border of Africa, this will save lots of lives.
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If the borders are redrawn as per the ethnic map shown here, almost all the present countries will cease to exist and Africa will become a continent of a thousand countries. Will it solve the ethnic problems or create more new problems? Only solution appears to be more unification than divisions and formation of autonomous regions based on ethnic groups.
personally, some of what i've been doing is looking at historical borders for a given region; the borders of the country along the west and north shores of *Lake Victoria are based on OTL historical countries in the area, combining their extent into one big countryIf the borders are redrawn as per the ethnic map shown here, almost all the present countries will cease to exist and Africa will become a continent of a thousand countries. Will it solve the ethnic problems or create more new problems? Only solution appears to be more unification than divisions and formation of autonomous regions based on ethnic groups.
For Nambia just keep South African's most western border going north In a straight line and perhaps do something similar with Angola. Depends if it was part of a trade by the British for their islands and forts in India, the Carribean, and West Africa.i've been working on alternate borders for Africa as part of my ASB ATL, and partly for Anglo-American Rivalry as well, though its still very much incomplete and is being drawn as it would be in the present-day. im trying to avoid convergent borders with OTL, though some are in there, like Danish Southwest Africa for instance, while some of them (Kinchassa near the center there and Hausaland west of Lake Chad) are me kind of cheating because i'm using OTL borders (present-day ones, no less!) even though they aren't part of their actual countries; all the subdivisions of Hausaland are parts of Niger and Nigeria which my research turned up as being part of the Hausa kingdoms but put together to form a country which has international borders unlike any in OTL
remember, this map here is part of a WIP. also, please ignore the parts in white; those are just non-African states that happen to still be in the cropped part of the larger map
well in that particular case, the reasoning is more that the Danes colonize OTL Namibia because the Germans are disunited. i was just posting what i have so far as an example of differences from the OTL colonizationFor Nambia just keep South African's most western border going north In a straight line and perhaps do something similar with Angola. Depends if it was part of a trade by the British for their islands and forts in India, the Carribean, and West Africa.
Oooooooh!Ideas!Ideas!Ideas! This gives me some inspiration for the African Crimson Skies TL I was thinking about doing. Thanks!I've wondered about this a few times before. The conclusion I usually come to is that while you will reduce Civil War by about 90% across Africa, you will probably match that by increasing actual national war by about 500%. Sure, there won't be the problems of ethnic genocide and seeking to suppress the rival ethnicities in your own borders (or, as much) but several of the tribes still hate each other, and are going to attack each other just as often - especially if you make Africa a patchwork of that many countries, as the rest of the civilised world will view the combatants as so insignificant that they will largely just ignore them entirely and let them get on with it. The difference is that this time you're giving both sides a national defence budget, rather than one side having the 1960s tanks and the other just having scrounged AKs and machetes.
Any significant change to the economic situation or geopolitical arena inside of Europe will have substantial consequences for the division of Africa on the colonial table. Even a native African state resisting conquest or becoming a protectorate early on to prevent their complete annihilation will provide change.A general question is, did our current African borders mostly arise from the Berlin conference of the 1880s? If that's so, could a different pattern of claims give us a wildly different border situation than OTL?