Unlike my previous QBAM series that look like time lapses but aren't, this one actually is!
Starting off in the 1970s with almost-OTL (except that Katanga and Barotseland are independent, because why not), large swathes of southern Africa are under white rule, either Portuguese colonies or the apartheid states of South Africa and Rhodesia. By the 1980s, independence wars have forced Portugal to grant independence to Angola (except for the exclave of Cabinda) and Mozambique, South Africa to grant independence to Southwest Africa as a multiracial state and to partition off the black-majority state of Azania in its western half, and Rhodesia to accept multiracial democracy as the state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia. By the 1990s, the multiethnic projects in Azania, Zimbabwe Rhodesia, and Southwest Africa have failed and brought about further partitions, with the largest ethnic groups in Azania seceding (KwaZulu and Xhosaland) or joining their preexisting states (Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland) and leaving Azania with only the ethnically diverse northeast and Johannesburg area, the white southern half of Southwest Africa rejoining South Africa while the black northern half becomes Ovambia (and East Caprivi joining Barotseland), and Zimbabwe Rhodesia splitting into a reformed Rhodesia along with Matabeleland and Mashonaland. The post-independence civil wars in Angola and Mozambique have also ended in partition, with UNITA forming South Angola and RENAMO forming the Republic of Rombesia while the MPLA and FRELIMO continue to rule communist rump states.
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