WI – A more developed non-islamised West Africa

Inspired by the Southern Roman Empire / Roman African Imperium thread, What-If West Africa was developed to a standard nearer to the Roman controlled parts of West Asia / North Africa and never ended up being islamised or if a (slightly Phoenician influenced / Romanized?) West African equivalent of the Axumite Empire was somehow able to form?


Also, would it ever be possible for a scenario to form where the peoples of West Africa are united by a common identity or have enough commonality for civilisations / kingdoms / etc to form much earlier compared to the OTL?

Am asking since beyond the Nok Culture and the Ghana Empire there seems to be hardly any notable pre-islamic history / civilisations to speak of compared to East Africa, though that is understandable given that all humanity is considered to have originated from the latter.
 
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Inspired by the Southern Roman Empire / Roman African Imperium thread...
Oh, you probably may guess what my answer is :D -
Imperium Romanum Africanum from the thread the Southern Roman Empire



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Oh, you probably may guess what my answer is :D -
Imperium Romanum Africanum from the thread the Southern Roman Empire

Fwiw, I always wondered if an elaborate uniquely anti-christian and later anti-islamic (if it still exists in ATL) dualistic form of Syrian-Egyptian Gnosticism claiming to predate Christianity by a few centuries, could have taken hold of the region and later displaced Christianity (either Valentinianism or Arianism) to become an established religion of the Southern Roman Empire?

Similar to how Manichaeism, one of the Persian schools of Gnosticism became the official religion of the Uighur Empire, what with Axum and Egypt having having their own versions of Christianity for example.
 
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