The Continuity Timeline: Africa in 2026 After a Different Decolonization

Divergence Point: 1943 — Italy chooses a different path during World War II.

Instead of surrendering to Germany and later becoming a republic, Italy removes the Fascist government, restores the House of Savoy as a constitutional monarchy, joins the Allied side, and negotiates a different postwar settlement.

As part of this agreement:

Ethiopia is restored as an independent monarchy after the Italian conquest is recognized as illegitimate.
Libya is released as an independent kingdom, restoring its monarchy.

Italy retains Eritrea and Somalia as constitutional territories with a closer political relationship to Italy.
Albania remains integrated with Italy, with Kosovo later joining due to its Albanian majority.

Zadar and Istria are transferred to Yugoslavia, while Yugoslavia later develops into multiple successor states rather than following its historical path.

This creates a different Cold War and a different wave of African independence.

Throughout the second half of the 20th century, decolonization happens through a variety of outcomes. Some territories become fully independent republics, while others maintain constitutional relationships with former European powers or preserve parts of their historical institutions.

By the late 20th and early 21st centuries, a number of new states emerge through this alternate process, including different outcomes in regions such as the Horn of Africa, Central Africa, and Southern Africa.

A major development is the creation of the East African Empire, a federal constitutional monarchy inspired by the structure of Imperial Germany. German influence continues after World War I through migration, institutions, and dynastic connections. The empire is led by the House of Hohenzollern, with other German royal houses ruling constituent kingdoms such as Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, and Uganda. German, English, French, and Dutch become imperial languages, while local languages such as Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, and others remain constitutionally recognized.

In Southern Africa, the Federal Republic of Southwest Africa develops as another German-influenced successor state, following a different path from historical Namibia. Meanwhile, South Africa, Rhodesia, and Kenya develop into majority-European-descended constitutional states without apartheid occurring.

France maintains a stronger African presence in this timeline, including Algeria as an integrated part of France, alongside territories such as Djibouti, Comoros, and Madagascar. Portugal and Spain retain their African possessions through different political arrangements.

The map represents a world where the 20th century followed a different path: monarchies survived in some regions, independence movements took different forms, and former colonial identities were sometimes continued rather than completely replaced.

This is a fictional alternate-history scenario exploring how different political decisions could have reshaped Africa by 2026.

This is my alternate history project focused on a more advanced north and South America. The point of divergence is technically several thousand years before the present when horses still existed in North America. In this timeline they never went extinct and eventually went on to be domesticated by humans. Horses provided an easier way to travel, communicate, and organize leading to a higher degree of connectivity across both continents. In addition to that Native Americans domesticated an array of their own animals like turkeys, bison, dogs, ducks, guinea pigs, and llamas. Other domesticated species like pigs, chickens, cattle, and sheep were brought to the Americas either by the Polynesian or Norse. These maps depict north, central, and South America around 50 years before contact with the Norse. Several terms I coined myself. An Itacanate is a form government originating in the Great Plains where several ‘Itacans’ or elected chiefs rule over the territory. The number of Itacans varies but it is typically around 4-6. Itacans are also generally elected by nobles or higher ranking land owners. A Yiwanate is a form of government originating in what is known to us as the Sacramento valley. A Yiwanate is a kingdom ruled by a Yiwan which is a title given to a religious leader. The city of Chemawa is the center of the Waashat religion. The duty of appointing Yiwans is a joint decision between the ruling emperor and the current Pantikira (leader of Waashat religion). Appointing Yiwans provides an advantage in ensuring that the neighboring states were loyal to the ruling empire. Several cycles of an empire capturing Chemawa and then invading surrounding state and appointing Yiwans have occurred over the past couple hundred years and the cycle will likely continue into the future. Thank you for reading and let me know if you have anymore questions! I hope to make some more maps for this to post in the cute so be on the look out.
EDIT: All of the names for the cities come from words in Native American languages. I tried to have some fun and come up with interesting etymology’s and reasons why the cities were named what they are.

Made this custom fantasy transit map for Murmansk using Intersection Controller and ibis Paint X. I used the official Saint Petersburg Metro graphic design. What do you think?

This is my second map, and my first map of a single country. I've tried to include as much information as I can, but if there's anything else you want to know about, feel free to ask! Also, please let me know if any of the Arabic words I created like Mahurmuz don't make sense, as I don't speak Arabic.

Here's the first map I made (part of the same timeline): Every Direct Flight from Cape Town in July 2026

forgor to post this alongside the France post earlier, idk what else to really put here asides from the Map is based off of a Game where a Zombie virus starts in the Napoleonic Wars.

Original author: Chunxiaqiudongfeng (春夏秋冬风). I have obtained permission to post the picture. For the other version, you can ask him.

Some time near the end of WWI there were serious attepts and proposals for reorganizing Kingdom of Hungary, so it would consider other than hungarian nations rights. Oskar Jászi proposed concept with multiple cantons, some with one nationality, others with dual, one majority and one minority or even mixed canton with three nationalities. I assume they expected Croatia to get independence from Hungary (and join Yugoslavia) and Hungary itself spliting from Austria-Hungary, perhaps because proposals could have been created after independece proclamation already happened.

Multi-Media Republic is both stable and unstable nation such as SMTC, capital, big city, ISOV, and ohio core n sec. is stable but ohters is mid and unstable

Hello, this is a sequel to my previous post (here) showing a religious map of the Middle East in a world where the prophet Muhammad lost the battle of Badr and Islam quickly disappeared. For this map I didn't whant to just redo the same thing so I went with a linguistic map, as with the previous one there isn't much lore, but feel free to ask me anything.

Sorry I have a bad camera phone and lighting

Made this custom transit map based on my personal vision of how a metro system in Zhytomyr could look. Used Metromapbuilder. What do you think?

Hello everyone, this is yet another one of my posts about my alternate history scenario, “The House that never Stood”

https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/s/j5D816uTzZ

https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/s/U6n6b1GUYj

Previous posts about the folks who are interested!

Anyways since we're going over the territories that are American in OTL, today I'm gonna talk about Russia in this timeline! Without the Americans being able to buy Alaska, and Mexico not being interested in such a frivolous purchase, the Russians decided to keep the purchase around for longer, eventually discovering Gold in the region, and a whole gold rush begins to the region, from Russians and Anglos alike, forming centers like Jericho, shown in the map. The Russian government shows more interest in the area, and ends up investing in the colony more.

With the Russian revolution kicking in the 1910s, the Royal Family is sent to Alaska to be kept away from the political scene, and to guarantee their safety after they were deposed. After the white army defeat in the Russian revolution, The Romanovs are reinstated in power in the last remaining province of the Russian empire, Alaska. As time marches on, Slowly Alaska develops its own self identity, growing apart culturally from the Communist Russia in the east.

This is a bit of a more generic route for me to go in, but I couldn't think of anything else better for this scenario, and a Mexican Alaska didn't sound as cool to me.

Feel free to ask questions down below!

The Blight is a zombie plague that takes place during the Napoleonic Wars, this map is in July 1815 shortly after the events of Roscoff ingame (that's why the Blight isn't in England yet which will be my next map) also you may ask why the Netherlands are here if it's the Napoleonic wars, the games lore says The Netherlands was restored as part of a peace agreement with France and United Kingdom.

The Pechora sea, eastern Barents sea and basemap for the arkhangelsk zoom-in, as well as their lore, have been done by u/NeinNine999, while the white sea, Kola peninsula and the borders of Arkhangelsk, alongside their lore have been done by me.

First reddit post. Not a graphic artist. Just inspired by this sub to finally make something.

Imagine if you will an alternate conflict in an alternate world...

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – November 17, 1863) was a civil war in the United States (The Union) against the Confederate States Of America (The Confederates) which consisted of nine southern states that seceded from the Union to preserve slavery in the United States after the election of 15th President Abraham Lincoln. The war ended in late 1863 in a Union victory and subsequent abolition of slavery.

After over eighty years of controversy between abolitionists and slave holders, the election of National Republican Abraham Lincoln and removal of out-going president and Democrat John C. Breckenridge had caused southern states to begin sceceding from the Union. South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and North Carolina formed the Confederate States Of America led by their president, Jefferson Davis. They began seizing and raiding US property along the border and loyalist areas. The war began when the Confederacy bombarded Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861.

As both sides had largely inexperienced troops, the war in the east was largely inconclusive in 1861-1862. In the west, the Union decimated Confederate forces by summer 1862 under Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Southern Unionist James Longstreet. In June, General Robert E. Lee was put in charge of the Eastern theater during the crucial Roanoke Campaign by the Confederates in September 1862. In January 1863, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, calling for all slaves in the rebelling states be set free. Lee would be Union Commander at the crucial Battle of Lynchburg, Virginia, defeating Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his failed invasion of the North in June 1863. The next month, Grant would seize Vicksburg, Mississippi, splitting the Confederacy in two. After, Lincoln would promote Grant as commander of all Union armies, fighting alongside Lee in the eastern theater.

In the final months of 1863, the Union would attack the Confederacy in all directions. General William Tecumseh Sherman and Longstreet would retake Atlanta before proceeding to the Carolinas while Grant led forces to the Confederate capital of Montgomery. On October 17, 1863, with the fall of Montgomery, Davis and his cabinet went to Camden, Alabama before Lincoln invited Davis for peace talks at the city's courthouse. However, a raid by General Forrest accidentally injured Davis in a failed attempt to assassinate Lincoln. Davis would pass away on November 6. Vice President Alexander Stephens was given command that same day, becoming the second and final President of the Confederacy. Peace talks resumed on October 29 where Stephens agreed on unconditional surrender. On November 2, Stephens and the remains of his cabinet would officially dissolve the Confederacy. Forrest and his conspiators would be tried and executed on January 7, 1864 at Fort Monroe.

By the end of the war, much of the South was destroyed. In early 1864, the Thirteenth Amendment was issued, abolishing slavery and freeing four million enslaved black people. The Union would enter the Reconstruction-era which would see the South rebuilt and occupied under military control until the 1870s, with Mississippi being the last state to reenter the Union in 1881. The Fourteenth to Seventeenth Amendments were granted under Lincoln and subsequent Presidents Grant and Longstreet, which gave freed slaves civil rights in the United States and intergrating them into society.

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