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The United States of Latin Africa was a hypothetical country proposed by Barthelemy Boganda, first president of what is now the Central African Republic. Being pragmatic, Boganda realised that the CAR wouldn't do well economically and wanted to create a federation out of French Equatorial Africa plus the Congo and Angola of which the CAR would be a federal unit. But this quickly fell apart due to regional jealousy and personal ambitions.

But what if somehow we could make this work? Let's say that Felix Eboue who lead the colony to support the Gaullist faction of the Free French Forces in WWII survived his heart attack in 1944 and works toward making Equatorial Africa more of a cohesive entity amongst its population. The Central African colonies join together after their independence. Barthelemy gets elected as it's first president and aligns himself with the French gaining their support. The embryonic USLA invades the Congo after the turmoil that erupts after the Belgians pull out and the collapse of Lumumba's regime. Although their might some resistance to this, the lack of a unified movement against the USLA keeps the region firmly under it's control. Then finally, the USLA goes to war against Portugal to "liberate" Angola and succeeds.

So how does this affect the Cold War now that there's a major player in Africa on the level of Brazil or maybe India in geopolitical power?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Latin_Africa
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