Wew, well we finally get a glimpse of the mess that is Africa ITTL... And to think that these were the succesful ones, i fear to think about French West Africa or International Congo, they must be freaking dystopian.
Yes, it is an
Algeria-meets-Vietnam War performed by Imperial Germans in a TL where there hasn't been no Eastern Front, Nuremberg Trials nor Declaration of Human Rights, it couldn't be smooth.
Did the independent states after the war suffer from civil war?
Thankfully not, the Hohenzollernstadt Accords procured a transitional period to train the new native administration and prepare the countries for a parliamentary democratic system, modelled after the British system to emancipate her colonies.
How succesful is the Zentralafrikanische Partnerschaft today? I've seen part of Nigeria wants to join.
Quite well for TTL's standards, by OTL I guess not bad, better than our Latin America at minimum. Yes, Nigeria wants to discuss further integration with its neighbours but full membership would mean trade barriers with the British, something than sets them off.
How were the remaining german settlers treated? Was their nationalisation/redistribution of their assets?
As outlined in the wikipage, the new native states respected the agreements with Germany (not without disagreements and discussions among different factions of the new political elites) and those German-Africans who whished could accede to citizenship in their respective countries. Their property was respected as long as they did resided regularly in the countries, but there were new taxes and regulations forcing the German bussinesses to contribute more to the state-building and the development of welfare states as a means of reparations. By 2020, I'd say that German-Africans number around two million, more concentrated in Cameroon and Kongo, up from the million that stayed in 1980, due to a combination of natural increase, return migration when persecutions didn't happen and economic immigration due to the development of Central African industries with the
ZentrAf.
What was the Afrikanische Wehrmacht?
The most radical wing of the ZAEFU, spliting into its own militia. It means "African Self Defense Force", and aimed mainly to exterminate German settlers from Central Africa, ironically as it is using a German name (but the independence struggle was led by the Westernized Black/Mixed urban middle class, so generally German-speaking). Although its membership never rose higher than 10.000, they were heavily persecuted by the German commandos and suffered repression the most. The casualties given is the official German account of members and *alleged* supporters killed/executed.
Looking next to kamerun, i see Fernando Po/Bioko seems British aligned, i imagine it was sold in the 19th century (as Britain repeatedly offered spain IRL), I imagine it had a pretty large british military presence during the central african war, how developped is it today?
It was seized by the British during the Spanish Schism, like the Canary Islands, but I haven't really developed that area much beyond that, I'll take note to flesh it in the future.
Btw, how did "Tanganyika/Rwanda/Burundi" come into existence? Were they german colony or not. How's life there?
Yes, they were German East Africa, but they didn't see much action during the Colonial War. Once the Hohenzollernstadt Accords were signed, a civil campaign was organized by the native middle class lobbying for selfdetermination, and they achieved independence without much blood spilling (because, well, all the blood spilling that Germans could bear was done in Central Africa). About the life there, again I have not thought much about it, but I believe being a stable democracy since the mid-80s has led to a good country.
Again, i'd love to see Native African initiatives and reaction to the Ultracolonialism of this TL
I'll take that in consideration. I certainly believe it can be a good narrative source, both the African reaction against colonialism and the contempt some groups may have for those still under the Western heel (I envision that, especially in the Central African countries, a feeling of "
we could break the chains Germans imposed upon us, yet you continue under a decrepit power such as France" could develop).
also interested by the various Chinese/Ethiopian/Lao/Cambodian international help and anti colonial actions and support.
That is yet another stance of me unpurpously leaving fragments of the original template
But yes, China is one of the most if not the most anticolonial sponsor ITTL, Ethiopia also. Laos and Cambodia weren't originally intended, but I'm thinking about a China-based exile that could fit. The groups on the German side could fit as Afrikaner volunteers also.
God damn that Central African War was brutal. I love this timeline
Thank you very much!