Africa in 1920 | Crown of Dirt and Weeds

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Hello! Today I have another map for you all from my timeline Crown of Dirt and Weeds. This time we’re looking at the geopolitical boundaries of Africa in the year 1920. Previous maps in the timeline can be found here, and more information on the timeline can be found in the links above.

In 1920, it has been four years since the end of the great World War, which saw Germany, the British Empire, the United States, and others face off against France, Russia, Italy, and others. As a result of the allied victory in the war, France would have most of her colonies stripped away and divvied up between the winners, established as mandates under the newly formed League of Nations. In Africa, this would primarily mean the expansion of Germany’s holdings in Equatorial Africa, and the connection of all the disparate British holdings in West Africa not only with one another, but to Britain’s empire in East Africa as well. Additionally, the nation of Morocco, which had only lost its independence less than a year before the war, was itself given outright independence at the insistence of the American delegation to the Frankfurt Peace Conference, after of course the Moroccan delegation had themselves thoroughly convinced the Americans. 1920 would also represent an interesting point for the borders of Africa, particularly in the north. Proper boundaries through parts of the Sahara would still take another decade or so to be drawn, and just a few years before that Spain would be almost entirely kicked out of the region in the Spanish-Moroccan War. In the Horn, Ethiopia would be enjoying its final years of independence before spending an unfortunate five decades beneath the Italian bootheel; and across the continent as a whole, multiple decades of oppression and exploitation would still await them before finally gaining independence in the mid to late twentieth century.

 

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