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Here's an interesting thought experiment. What if the post-colonial relations between Britain and former colonies in Africa and Asia were more like post-Soviet relations between Russia and the Baltic States. By that I mean:
No Commonwealth or any 'post-colonial' organisation uniting the former colonised with the colonial countries
Virtually no migration of the colonised peoples from former Colonies to the 'Mother Country'
No kind of post-colonial relationship in anyway between the two sides - no aid from the former coloniser to the former colonised or students from the colonised countries studying in Britain
The complete abandonment of English as an official language, as Russian has been abandoned in Eastern Europe - eg: Kenya merely uses Swahili, Botswana merely uses Setswana, Malaysia only uses Malay.
In some cases, colonial-drawn borders disappear entirely, so that the Hausas of Nigeria and the Hausas of Niger become one country, and the Yoruba of Nigeria and the Yoruba of Benin become one country, further reducing any post-colonial influence from Britain and France.
The obvious question is how would this all affect Britain's 'place in the world' in 2018? How would the West's view of Africa, and itself, change?