Which West African Country seems able to become a Modern superpower?

mats

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Well, if there was more time for decolonization, their prospects would be better. It would at least give them a decent infrastructure and goverment.
 
The UK and France forge a Union, a Franco-Births Union, during ww2 and reforms and reorganize its colonial possessions in an effort to gain more resources for the war. The reformed and reorganized west Africa district sticks together and pull a India. That is some areas go independent and others join (like Portuguese areas and Liberia) but in the whole they transform into a multicultural democracy that concentrates on building infrastructure and expanding the school system using its natural resources to finance it all. It's not perfect or painless as there is corruption scandals, language issues and one or two armed conflicts whit its Islamic northern/eastern neighbor "African Pakistan analogue".
By 2010 it's a emerging economy of Indian and Chinese status using its colonial past to pressure the Franco-British dominated WEU (West European Union) for more free trade concessions as the growing export industry fuels its economic expansion.

That's my light hearted "it's a bright future" POD for a better Africa; a marriage between France and UK during WW2 and some sensible reorganizations of the colonial borders and some determent decolonization effort. Bigger more stable states whit less conflicts and more of all the quadrillions of aid invested in infrastructure and education would have transformed the area.
 
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