Screw Postcolonial Africa EVEN Harder Than OTL

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Have as many countries as possible go down the Comoros route: 1. Decolonize education by more or less abolishing it 2. Have Maoism happen or at least attempt to happen 3. Have foreign mercenaries come and overthrow the Maoists, while allied with local religious conservatives. 4. Never fix 1. or 3.

Every country that's not on the Comoros route would experience migration pressures from every country that is, feeding a cycle of cross-border wars. Attempts at peacekeeping interventions by an alt-African Union or even alt-UN just add more combatants to the mix.

Horrible but eminently doable.

 

[TickTock The Witch's Dead]

Have as many countries as possible go down the Comoros route: 1. Decolonize education by more or less abolishing it 2. Have Maoism happen or at least attempt to happen 3. Have foreign mercenaries come and overthrow the Maoists, while allied with local religious conservatives. 4. Never fix 1. or 3.

Every country that's not on the Comoros route would experience migration pressures from every country that is, feeding a cycle of cross-border wars. Attempts at peacekeeping interventions by an alt-African Union or even alt-UN just add more combatants to the mix.

Horrible but eminently doable.

How does having Maoism instantly create chaos? Any government that’s anti-Western can do right?

 

[Karlmarx900]

Africa ends up lawless and all states fall then mass famine occurs as a result of climate change. Then the economy collapses.

 

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How does having Maoism instantly create chaos? Any government that’s anti-Western can do right?

Maoism ensures USSR doesn't lift a finger to help. Cultural revolution therefore can only be defended by local forces. This is important in decolonization era.

 

[TickTock The Witch's Dead]

Maoism ensures USSR doesn't lift a finger to help. Cultural revolution therefore can only be defended by local forces. This is important in decolonization era.

But how does that provoke Western backlash?

 

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But how does that provoke Western backlash?

Yeah, theoretically any anti-Western government could provoke the same reaction. I wasn't entirely totally serious about every nuance of it, I just literally used the Comoros because it's hard to do much worse but it's not that hard to replicate the experience.

 

[TickTock The Witch's Dead]

Yeah, theoretically any anti-Western government could provoke the same reaction. I wasn't entirely totally serious about every nuance of it, I just literally used the Comoros because it's hard to do much worse but it's not that hard to replicate the experience.

I’d say it could be worse though.

 

[Seandineen]

Drc sucession lasts, the kasani empire goes full fledged c.a.e with a bossoka style emperor.
The watch tower offshoot takes power in Zambia and creates the lords resistance army 30 years sooner.

 

[TickTock The Witch's Dead]

Drc sucession lasts, the kasani empire goes full fledged c.a.e with a bossoka style emperor.
The watch tower offshoot takes power in Zambia and creates the lords resistance army 30 years sooner.

Waif is Zambia affected?

 

[Seandineen]

There was an indigenous version of the witnesses who got into witch craft and politics.

 

[TickTock The Witch's Dead]

There was an indigenous version of the witnesses who got into witch craft and politics.

Huh. Never knew. But is it enough to make an impact?

 

[Seandineen]

Prior to the rise of Kenneth Kaunda, the leader of this bunch, a female faith healer named Alice , was considered more dangerous to the brits than Mandela was to the bigoted boers.

 

[Seandineen]

She would have her followers strip naked in public, Urinate in churches.

 

[Johnrankins]

Damn. That’s a second Vietnam in the making.

Only if Wallace is willing to send troops, which I doubt. I don't like the guy, to say the least, but I think he would keep US troops out of it.

 

[Seandineen]

They combined magic bullets, with a handmaids tale style theocracy

 

[Pelranius]

Install settler minorities of 5-10% of the total population in every colony?

Though finding that many settlers is probably best ASB?

 

[Peg Leg Pom]

Though finding that many settlers is probably best ASB?

India and China could be the source of settlers.

 

[TickTock The Witch's Dead]

India and China could be the source of settlers.

They would side with the African nations though.

 

[Johnrankins]

They would side with the African nations though.

Why would you suppose that? Indians and Chinese can be as racist as Europeans.

 

[TickTock The Witch's Dead]

Why would you suppose that? Indians and Chinese can be as racist as Europeans.

This is post-WWII. And India and China were supportive of the postcolonial nations.