Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-2236231-20180727232419

In 1950, the Ghana's Convention People's Party opened a convention regarding independence with a film called "The Song of Freedom " whose protagonist is told that he is decended from a line of African Kings and sets forth to help his people by combing the best of Western Technology with African Tradition. The convetion was attended by Kwame Nkrumah, who would become Ghana's first Prime Minister when in 1957 the nation was granted independence and entered a State Union with the Ashanti Empire ; with some hope of doing as that film's protagonist had. However the union was arranged in such a way as to make Ghana the national and the Ashanti the sub-national (with no real influence on the nation's politics but rather some semi-autonomy within the republic).

What I propose is a timeline where the State Union was arranged in away that puts the Ashanti as the national in this union (making what we know as Ghana the Ashanti in this timeline). The Ashanti Kingdom already by that time has elements of a constituional monarchy and would give the nation a traditional center upon which to form an identity- along with a very African heritage with which to build that identity. I imagine it resembling Ethiopia as Ethiopia was in the 30s and 40s.

I'd like to gather some associates for this project and perhaps learn details I'm unfamiliar with so as to make this Alternate History of a fine craft. Any little comment can help; even the negative ones as such brings issues to light. 