sahel

As the title indicates, could Chad possibly develop into a prosperous democracy, with the coup d'etat of 1990 being the POD? The main hurdles would probably be • The democratic backsliding from 2005 onwards, during the rule of Idriss Deby • The Chadian Civil War from 2005 • The ethnic distrust...

What would happen if a civilization approximately at the level of Mediterranean civilizations developed in the Sahel during the Bronze/Iron Age? What effects would it have on African history? How would it affect the Bantu migrations and other events in African history? What interactions would it...

is there a way for Ethiopia to have expanded and conquered the entire Sahel region, maybe to get closer to Christian Europe?

Chapter 1: The Beginning of the Malian Fleet The Year is 1300. Mansa Sakura of Mali, Former Slave, Usurper and Great Conqueror, is dead. Sakura was an imperial slave who had usurped the throne from the weak and feeble Mansa Abu Bakr, who himself inherited a weakened throne from the tyrant...

IOTL, the Juba Conference of 1947 was organized between British colonial officials and Sudanese separatist delegates for negotiating the future of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. It was decided that the ethnically diverse region would break off from the empire as a single state. This situation might...

I was reading a translation of Ta'rīkh Al-Sūdān by the seventeenth-century Timbuktu scholar 'Abd al-Raḥmān al-Sa'dī recently and I was kinda intrigued by the historian's description of Askia Dawud, who ruled from 1549 to 1582. In the text and at least partially corroborated from what little I...

We had significant white settlement in the semi-arid zones of South Africa, why not in the semi-arid Sahel? The Sahel is also primarily out of range for the Tsetse fly, especially in Niger and Chad. This area seems like a good location for European settlement, so why did the Sahel get so little...