MoF 02: Decolonised Africa

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" ... Despite allegations of being born in the US territory of Hawaii, pro-independence Barack Hussein Obama of Kenya, the man who would change the face of world politics, was elected Governor General of the Union of East Africa in 2006. Weary from tension left over from the Congolese and Rhodesian Wars, Obama removed his nation from the British sphere of influence. The resulting panic in Africa resulted in the United Kingdom's nearly-total loss of the continent. With the Kingdom of Egypt and Palestine leaving the Commonwealth, the Mediterranean strategy collapsed, and with it Great Britain.

"By 2009, the United States finally could be considered the hegemonic world power. As it shifted its eyes to the continent that had brought its victory, it failed to notice the healing that Africa needed. The reunification of the Congo ..." -American Pageant

The PoD is no Balfour Declaration, and thus a different organization of the Middle East. Germany becomes a communist nation after the war, resulting in a World War between the Communists (the USSR, Germany, and eventually a romp Italian government) and France, the UK, the US, China, and Japan in the late 30s. A Cold War (the Long Dance) occurs between the US and the UK in the aftermath, with the US adopting a radical anti-colonialist stand against the UK and France.

Also, Marxist Konga is the only socialist nation left in the world. In the 80s, it invaded the newly independent Congo, setting off the Congolese War.
 

Desmond Hume

My humble submission. Basically, WWI goes differently with an early Central Powers victory, but the Entente powers win the WWII analogue with help from Italy while the Ottoman Empire stays out of it. Decolonization plays out differently and slightly later, and over a much more extended period of time with Britain converting most of its colonies to independent dominions in the sixties while Germany holds on to its remaining colonies (it used to have all of the French ones except Algeria too, but after *WWII France got many of them back) until the mid-eighties. France, meanwhile, undergoes a leftist revolution in 1969 and liquidates its colonies a year later, after fighting brutal wars in many of them for 20 years previously to hold on to them. The CAL is loosely allied with the French People's Republic and includes many of the former French colonies as well as other African states with leftist governments-except Algeria, which wants nothing to do with France and has become a close Ottoman ally. Portugal and Spain are both liberal republics which have tried to integrate their colonies, with limited success. Italy remains committed to holding on to its empire, and by the eighties has become something of an international pariah.

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Sapiento

POD is France winning at Abukir thanks to some brave actions of Admiral de Villeneuve (the OTL looser of Trafalgar). The French Empire lasts longer and is more successful, Great Britain is weaker. When the French loose their grip on the German Confederation in the 1880 the Germans make a revolution and found the German Empire.
Africa is colonized by the Napoleonic states France, Great Aragon, Lusitania and Great Sicily, the United Kingdom and the German Empire (which occupies for one part simply the colony of its member state, the Netherlands). By 1970 the decolonisation is finished.

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