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A couple new maps: first, a map for this excellent timeline www.alternatehistory.com/discu⦠in which some self-freed Brazilian slaves (rebels, in other words) put down their weapons in exchange for shipment back to Africa in 1840, and end up kicking a chunk of the continent into an early modernization. Butterflies flap, and by 1900 the world is looking quite different - this is a few years after the British-Prussian-Ottoman-Italian-Japanese alliance defeated the French-Austrian-Russian-Chinese one in this world's early Great War...Related content
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It's nice to see an Africa that isn't simply a victim of the Space Filling Empire Curse. I particularly like the idea of Africa as an India-analogue.
I might give this TL a read after I finish LTTW (I'm currently up to Chapter 78). Problem is, I always feel compelled to read the whole of the discussion thread along with the actual TL, even with DoD, and that was a herculean task on its own. So, it'll probably be a while.
Not to mention I have a crapload of other books that I have yet to read as well.
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Think of British India - upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia⦠- this is a world where the approach in Africa is more along the Raj line of "rule through local puppets and satellites" rather than direct annexation into a big colonial blob. Also, there hasn't been as intense a scramble for Africa, so some parts have been largely left to go to hell their own way.
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Though the Congo seems to still be pretty much the mess it's known in OTL.
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Yeah, being an international zone during a world war will kinda do that, especially if there are 3-4 civil wars going on at the same time in the lake Victoria area and spewing refugees and failed would-be rulers.
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That makes OTL Africa look much more preferable.
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Well, it will be better off in the long run, but right now, with a lot of states being relatively free agents, they're also free to take sides in the war, or fight their own wars over which of these new religions to adapt, etc. As they say in economics, creative destruction.
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The Congo ITTL will probably be worse off due to all that chaos, both in the long and the short term. But in, say, the 2000s, West Africa, especially the "Nigerian Complex", will most likely be about as developed as Bulgaria, which is a huge improvement.
Also: Hurray for MalΓͺ Rising!
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