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Seeing as how Pan-Africanism started out as a overtly communist revolutionary movement, with many of its early leaders such as George Padmore, Jomo Kenyatta, C.L.R. James, I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson, Chris Brathwaite and several others having direct ties to the Comintern Politburo, how plausible would it be for an alternate version of the African Union to come into being in an ATL, as a communist state resembling that of the Soviet Union?
How large could such a Pan-African post-colonial Communist Union have been, how hostile would the Allies, Axis and other world powers have been (with the 'Yellow Scare' of OTL in Africa leading up to WW2 replaced by a far worse 'Red Scare' instead), and what would a best-case scenario for Africa in such a TL be? Could it have industrialized? What's the most powerful and enduring that such an African Union have possibly been? And if it had come into being, how much might its existence have altered the balance of power in the Cold War, and the Black civil rights movement as a whole?
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