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Could National Socialism have worked somewhere in Africa?

What was the closest it came to doing so?

Not trolling, I'm legitimately curious.

Tichitt Oualata, a settlement first built by the Soninke people, the ancestors of the founders of the Ghana empire.

Be more specific. As I am half Tanzanian, I know a lot about the politics of Africa, and could give you some examples, but it really depends on how loose your definition of national socialism is.
Oops, forgot to add a picture.

More of Tichitt.

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Ethiopian church.

I know nothing about the Muslim colonization/settlement/conversion of the eastern coast of Africa.
Can I get a greentext?

Another Ethiopian church.

Either fascism or just bolshevism (which if you are really technical about it, is a form of national socialism).
Mostly interested in the idea of a strong central government actually getting some degree o success in the post-colonial enviroment, but I don't know much about Africa (as in, I know nothing).

OP here. Here is an Arab depiction of Swahili sailors (some of the best in the world) on a ship with Arabs. I'm too lazy to greentext, but this article is short and sweet and covers it all very well (trust me, I know my African history) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Africa

I've heard the Bantu started somewhere in the Cameroons and then went into South Africa, becoming the dominant lingustic/ethnic group. How similar was it similar to the Volkerwanderung? Were they pressured by another group?

Sidenote - if you were to focus foreign investment into Africa, but had to circumvent corruption, how would you do it?

One of my home countries, Tanzania, might be a good example. Burkina Faso too, I guess. Lots of African nations have flirted with/collaborated with Communist states or adapted fascist policies. I don't really know, man, African politics are... different, I guess you could say. I'll link you some wikipedia articles.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Nyerere
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ujamaa
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nkrumaism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin

A widely accepted hypothesis is that they dominated so much because they had agriculture, ironworking and the making of ceramics.

More Ethiopian architecture.

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Ruins of an Ethiopian castle.

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Also from Ethiopia.

Ethiopian obelisk

One of the bronze heads from Ife, Nigeria.

Torso made in the same style.

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This is a sculpture of the Nok civilization, a mysterious bronze iron people who lived in modern day Nigeria. You can tell where the people at Ife got their skills from.

Silly me, forgot to add the picture again.

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In your personal experience, what is Tanzania's biggest concerns?

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Was Tanzania part of the non-aligned movement?

How did Ethiopia hold out against European colonialism for so long?

Hm, that is hard to say. Tanzania is one of the few countries in Africa that hasn't had a civil war or internal conflict of any sort along ethnic or religious lines. Some key words are corruption, growth, industrialization, political stability, more freedom of speech, urbanization. It is like any other rapidly growing African country, only richer and more politically stabile. I love the president, even though he has done some shady things. The good he does weighs up for the bad (which is only some minor stuff). I can elaborate on the pros and cons of the ruling party if you'd like me to.

Yes, it was.

I think not.The problem is africa is too divided and tribalist to push a nationalist/ethnic centric ideology.

Formidable terrain, a central government capable of fighting back would be colonizers, experience with foreigners (unlike the Aztecs who thought their colonizer was a god, the Ethiopians knew what was up) and the most important trait, Christianity. Being a Christian nation, Ethiopia unlike the rest of Africa enjoyed a sort of Pax Christ because in Europe it was frowned upon to be aggressive towards fellow Christian nations, ignoring age old animosities within Europe.

How are Tanzania's relationships with neighboring countries?

Not all of Africa is, though.

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Excellent. We even liberated Uganda from the brutal reign of Idi Amin after he tried to cease some of our land. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda–Tanzania_War

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Sadly, not much is known about them, but they were a huge civilization at their peak.

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These are some of the "Benin bronzes" from the Benin empire.

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A city in Benin

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Some of the most beautiful art to come out of Africa.

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The palace of the Oba (head of state) of Benin

What a scene in Benin might have looked like

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Enough Benin for now. This is a traditional city in Mali, along what is called the Nile of The West, the Niger river.

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Same style as the other two

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Cliff houses of the Dogon people in Mali.

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Outskirts of Timbuktu, the capitl of Mali

Very comfy thread, OP. What are some of the religious traditions in Tanzania like, and generally that area of Africa? More specifically wondering about the non-Abrahamic religions.

>a comfy Swahili home.

It looks so poor without these comfy portuguese cannons

Africa's a big place and its different throughout
I went to Senegal, but just within Senegal the difference between Dakar where I stayed most of the trip (around three months), there, and the southern region (Casamance), is huge. Dakar is a major city, its dry and its arid, its cosmopolitan and filled with street hawkers, but you go to other places and there's village life - not mud huts or anything, but people just living normal rural lives.
Climatically, I just went a couple hundred kilometers away, and it was like being in tropical afterwards, when just a bit to the north it was like the Sahara.
The general rule though is that most often Africa is more developed and less bloody than we think of it, Dakar was more like a South American city transplanted into the desert rather than mud huts, and even in the countryside its a lot more than just dirt buildings.
But it really is too diverse of a continent to say, its like if I went to Kazakhstan and then was asked "What's Asia like?"

Thank you. Sadly, few of the traditional religions of East Africa have survived. Here are some wikipedia articles on the most widespread traditional African beliefs in East Africa. Of course, there are more, but there are more ethnic groups than I can count and it is very hard to find information on a lot of them and their beliefs. Those three articles I linked should be a good start, though.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu_mythology
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lozi_mythology
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbuka_mythology

hmmmm

Damn, those niggas really had something.. oh did we ruin it? Or was it the bantu people?

>how did we ruin it?

fixed