Earlier Plausible Decolonization

[Beatriz]

In the Land Levithan by Moorcock, accelerated technological development results in a worse WW1 that results in earlier decolonization among other things.
Since the Philippines attempted to become independent in 1900, Albania was made independent in 1911, and various countries emerged after WW1 (Egypt, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia), why couldn’t Indonesia or Ghana* become independent in the 1920s?

 

[thenextgui]

In the Land Levithan by Moorcock, accelerated technological development results in a worse WW1 that results in earlier decolonization among other things.
Since the Philippines attempted to become independent in 1900, Albania was made independent in 1911, and various countries emerged after WW1 (Egypt, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia), why couldn’t Indonesia or Ghana* become independent in the 1920s?

Regarding the Philippines, I made a thread before if it could become de jure independent in the same way Cuba was after the Spanish-American War, but even in that scenario it still had foreign policy limited by the United States.

 

[VadisDeProfundis]

I think that you'd need a combination of factors: you need to have strong, organised and well armed independence movements, that are willing and able to fight the colonisers. Then, you need the colonisers to either not be too invested in their colonies, or not be able to defend them. Rebellions concurrent with major wars seem to be a good window of opportunity for that.

Maybe the European powers overextend themselves in crushing the Boxer Rebellion, and attempt to exercise more direct control over China. That backfires, with many resources being sunk into a hole without an end, and the Chinese fighting a guerrilla war. The fact that the europeans aren't immediately winning sends a message, much like Japan being victorious over Russia in 1905 and then being able to defeat Britain in battles was. That inspires nascent independence movements and helps them gain resources. Then, a string of rebellions occurs during WW1, and the europeans are unable to put them all down.

 

[raharris1973]

In the Land Levithan by Moorcock, accelerated technological development results in a worse WW1 that results in earlier decolonization among other things.
Since the Philippines attempted to become independent in 1900, Albania was made independent in 1911, and various countries emerged after WW1 (Egypt, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia), why couldn’t Indonesia or Ghana* become independent in the 1920s?

Share any details on the geopolitics of the worse WWI and decolonization process [from that book] please.