africa

[kharne07]

hi new to this but i was wondering what everyone thought about the situation would be like in africa.business as usual?

[pmulcahy11b]

Somewhere on this forum is a thread about the situation in Kenya.

[Rainbow Six]

South Africa has come up a couple of times as well...

[Webstral]

Recently, I finished an excellent book called Africa's First World War, which addresses the fighting in the Congo from 1996 (or so) until about 2004. The conditions described for the Congo are pretty good, sans the aid to modern combat provided by foreign aid. There would be less gasoline for vehicles and a diminishing supply of ammo, but the flavor seems about right. Who needs nukes when you have nations that are nations in name only?

Webstral

[Raellus]

First of all, Kharne07, welcome to the boards. Let me take this oppoprtunity to plug my campaign setting/backstory for Kenya.

http://forum.juhlin.com/showthread.php?t=2312

You might also find the following threads helpful/interesting.

http://forum.juhlin.com/showthread.php?t=944

http://forum.juhlin.com/showthread.php?t=499

[Ivan]

This is interesting as I just started a game in the Sudan. I hear the capital is nice this time of year. Hi kharne07

[helbent4]

kharne,

I think things would slow down a bit in some ways.

Conflict in Africa is at least partially driven by resources (oil, diamonds, rare earths, minerals, timber) and in some areas ideological agitation from Islamists. There would probably be a trickle of trade with the outside world (North America, parts of Europe, even Australia) with weapons being brought in and some resources shipped out, but the "fuel" for many of the fires would be greatly reduced.

However, the political problems won't go away and won't be mitigated by pressure from the outside world (although one could argue such influence does more harm than good). The aid that props up many regimes and prevents a total medical collapse and famine would dry up. I would say that governments would collapse and starvation would be rampant, as well as AIDS-related deaths (because of complications due to malnutrition).

Tony