Africa (Chaos)

Africa was somewhat less under European influence in the Chaos timeline than it was in OTL. This at least proved true for sub-Saharan Africa, where the discoveries by took longer, due to several circumstances. The opposite happened in North Africa: The (and later  and ) conquered most of it and started to bring Arabs as slaves to, replacing them by European settlers. Except for, these settlers would hold power even after the breakdown of their respective empires until present.

Two great empires, first and later  developed in western Africa, between the Sahara desert and the Portuguese-influenced coast, where after the conquest of Portugal by  the "mulatto kingdoms" would emerge, when many Portuguese fled to their colonies in  and their sons with native women would take over.

Gradually, other powers would follow. established its colony (OTL South Africa) under king Alexander, and France tried to conquer the  to take control of the way to. And the Muslim powers of and later  would take control of the east coast.