WI: No Colonization of Sub-Saharan Africa

If Sub-Saharan Africa were never colonized, how would the continent develop over time? What would a political map of Africa look like today? Would Africa be better off without colonialism, and with actual nation-states?
 
Give for sure three things:
-Less diseases, because Europeans banned Africans things from their culture like their ways of protecting from the diseases
-A very messy map, because if we get every nation a country corresponding to its zone, it would be messy.
-Less ethnic wars, as all nations have their state corresponding to where they live, there would be no reason to change borders or expel people
 
It depends really, if their's a Europe as OTL, well their are going to still be colonies, just small ones.

Once European ideas and technologies start to really come into being in Africa things will change, in the end you'll likely end up with between 4-14 countries as the major states essentially colonize and annex the surrounding states.

In the end this could end up with an Africa that's better off than OTL or one that's much worse than OTL.


Give for sure three things:
-Less diseases, because Europeans banned Africans things from their culture like their ways of protecting from the diseases

More correctly, less people being infected by diseases, they'll stille xist, just people will still know ways to prevent pandemics.
 
-Less ethnic wars, as all nations have their state corresponding to where they live, there would be no reason to change borders or expel people

I'm not sure about that. Particularly because of your second point: the map would be messy. In the largely tribal societies of Africa, there are no clear ethnic borders. I may well be that three people live in the same region - some as farmers, some as herders. This is most probably the scenario that resulted in the first wars in human history.
 
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