WI/AHC: Fascism/NS Catches Fire in Decolonizing Africa (Post - 1950)

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Challenge:

Have some form of Fascism or National Socialism catch on throughout the de colonization movements in Africa.

Which nations do you believe would be the most susceptible?

Based on your chosen nation(s), what do you think would be the long term effects of Fascism (instead of marxism) melding with the de-colonization movement globally?

Bonus points if you choose Pan-Africanism as your nationalist movement and realistically have it succeed.
 
Ethophia or Somalia ,you could get some Pan Arab fascist state in North Africa and in South Africa you could get a white fascist party
 
I think Mussolini's antics in Ethiopia, plus Nazi racialism in general, would make any explicit form of fascism pretty taboo among the African countries.

I know that, prior to the end of the war, you had a few black groups in the USA who cheered for the Axis, mainly the Japanese(who were seen as champions of the oppressed non-whites). But, postwar, European fascism became so closely linked(and not unreasonably) with white supremacy, it's just not gonna be any sort of a seller in black Africa.
 
I think that in order for the OP's scenario to work, you would need there to be some remaining fascist government in the world(preferably one not identified too closely with white-supremacy) which could sell itself to the anti-colonial movements as an ally against the Brits, French, etc.

Maybe a surviving militarist Japan reaches out to African nationalists like they did to Indian nationalists during the War, and the Africans are willing to overlook their previous alliance with genocidal white supremacists. But, even that would probably just be a marriage of convenience.
 
Could you say the Mau Mau rebellion was fascist? Albeit among tribal lines instead of national?

Well, I assumed that by "fascist", the OP meant "openly identified with one of the fascist movements of Europe or Japan during the WW2 era".

Otherwise, yeah, there are a lot of post-colonial movements and governments you could call fascist, in the sense of "violent hypernationalists". I'm not sure about Mau Mau, but certainly Idi Amin or Mugabe come to mind.
 
Well, I assumed that by "fascist", the OP meant "openly identified with one of the fascist movements of Europe or Japan during the WW2 era".

Otherwise, yeah, there are a lot of post-colonial movements and governments you could call fascist, in the sense of "violent hypernationalists". I'm not sure about Mau Mau, but certainly Idi Amin or Mugabe come to mind.

No no, your not wrong in assuming that.
I was just curious about your thoughts about Mau Mau.

In either case, yes maybe Idi Amin et al did seek to emulate Fascist dictators but I'm more curious about the "what if" factor regarding a Fascist/National Socialist de-colonization movement instead of the Marxist-style that occurred IOTL.
 
GH:

I don't know much about Mau Mau beyond that it was an independence movement, based among the Kikiyu people, and flowing from the issue of land reform. And that Jomo Kenyatta had some sort of arm's-length, plausible-deniability association with it.

I'm not sure if they even really identified as left-wing or right-wing.
 
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