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Alternative history: What if Pan-Africanism succeeded?

Alternative history: What if Pan-Africanism succeeded? Context Pan-Africanism is an ideology which demands for all or some of the African States to unite. The pioneer was Marcus Garvey from Jamaica. In the 20th century, European powers were competing to gain their territory for colonies in Africa and divided the continent into their own colonies. At that time, the ideology of Pan-Africanism emerged, but not only that, a religious movement called Rastafarianism, which has the belief that Haile Selassie was the Messiah and Ethiopia is the promised land, is established in Jamaica. At the end of the 19th century until the beginning of the 20th century, many African countries gained their independence. At that time, some African leaders, such as Kwane Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Thomas Sankara and Moammar Gaddafi, advocated pan-Africanism, but they did not succeed in uniting all or some of the countries of Africa. But what if in this alternative timeline there was someone who succeeded uniting

Alternative history: What if the Ancient Egyptians became a superpower?

Alternative history: What if the Ancient Egyptians became a superpower? Context The Ancient Egyptians were the first ancient civilisations to emerge on this planet. Throughout history, they have been attacked by other nations. They have opened trade routes, but they only opened these routes throughout Egypt and did not go elsewhere. Because they were too weak, the story of the presence of the Ancient Egyptians had ended due to the Persian conquest of Egypt, then the Roman conquest. The Berbers are the indigenous people of North Africa. Throughout history, they never had their own civilisation. They had been ruled by foreigners, from the Ancient Egyptians, Carthaginians, Ancient Romans, Arabs to the modern French and Spanish nations. Although there was a trade route across North Africa, they never had their own civilisation because they were consistently living in a nomadic way in the desert. Although they never had their own civilisation, but they had a good leader, Shoshenq I, who rul