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Development Diary XXXI: Débrouillez-Vous - Part 1/4
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# Introduction:
Welcome to the Débrouillez-Vous Development Diary! Today, the Africa leads will be discussing the future of TNO Africa, and its planned patch. Some of you may be familiar with Débrouillez-Vous already, but for those of you who are not aware, it is a submod that has been in development, aiming at a rework of Africa to fit modern TNO standards. We have decided to integrate them into the development team, to help serve as the basis for a new and comprehensive Africa patch. Alongside TNO and DV's Africa devs, we have also fully involved the devs of other countries in the making of this new patch, finding as many places as possible for their countries to interact with Africa, and many of the Africa devs, including all of the leads, also serve on teams for countries interacting with Africa.
We aim to provide an intriguing and comprehensive view of Africa in the 1960s, and onward, focusing on how the alternative history that TNO represents will lead to vastly different fates for the African continent compared to that of OTL. Débrouillez-Vous aims to provide a dynamic and changing Africa, in which the superpowers are struggling for dominance from 1962 to the end of the game, and in which Africa can end in hugely different situations. In two separate games of TNO, you might, for instance, see the emergence of region-spanning African superstates, or you may see the colonial powers retaining their dominance over the region, and the African continent swallowed under the darkness of European rule forever.
Débrouillez-Vous is a full update that focuses on providing proxy conflicts for the player to enjoy, and as such, we are focusing on ensuring that every part of this patch's skeleton will seamlessly interface with that of existing powers, so if you are playing any nation that interacts with Africa, you will see your gameplay actively enriched by this patch. This patch is not a vague concept, but something that is actively being worked on as you read this. Africa will receive fully reactive skeleton content that goes up until the game's end in the 70s in this update. So, enjoy reading the rest of this diary, and we hope you will be happy with it.
# British West Africa:
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When Britain finally capitulated to the German onslaught, it did so not as an island nation, but as the overlord of the Empire upon which the sun never set. What defeat meant, however, was that the sun would indeed set upon much of the British Empire. The victorious Axis powers carved out major concessions from London; Italy gained dominion over the Mediterranean and Near East, while Japan became the undisputed master of South East Asia. Worst of all of these was the loss of India, Victoria's hard-won 'Crown Jewel,' and the foundation of much of Britain's success and wealth over the past two centuries. Adding further injury, the Dominions, all of whom were distant and independent enough to avoid conquest, refused to follow their mother country into the fascist yoke. For any proud Briton, it was a crushing humiliation; a humiliation that would indelibly shape the thinking of the British elite under the New Order.
Initially, the first collaboration government of William Maxwell Aitken, the Lord Beaverbrook, did not change much for Africa, being too focused on the reconstruction and rebuilding of state authority in Britain proper. His successor as Prime Minister, the Duke of Bedford, a noted reactionary fascist, felt more comfortable turning attention back to the remnants of the Empire. He established a colonial consensus within the BPP; Bedford’s government revoked voting rights from all native Africans, limiting the Legislative Councils to whites, although it disempowered even these segregated bodies in favor of more autocratic
https://preview.redd.it/on7phjhxf2ff1.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=f8dbdca949df976b53975dc2275024d74ca74dab
# Introduction:
Welcome to the Débrouillez-Vous Development Diary! Today, the Africa leads will be discussing the future of TNO Africa, and its planned patch. Some of you may be familiar with Débrouillez-Vous already, but for those of you who are not aware, it is a submod that has been in development, aiming at a rework of Africa to fit modern TNO standards. We have decided to integrate them into the development team, to help serve as the basis for a new and comprehensive Africa patch. Alongside TNO and DV's Africa devs, we have also fully involved the devs of other countries in the making of this new patch, finding as many places as possible for their countries to interact with Africa, and many of the Africa devs, including all of the leads, also serve on teams for countries interacting with Africa.
We aim to provide an intriguing and comprehensive view of Africa in the 1960s, and onward, focusing on how the alternative history that TNO represents will lead to vastly different fates for the African continent compared to that of OTL. Débrouillez-Vous aims to provide a dynamic and changing Africa, in which the superpowers are struggling for dominance from 1962 to the end of the game, and in which Africa can end in hugely different situations. In two separate games of TNO, you might, for instance, see the emergence of region-spanning African superstates, or you may see the colonial powers retaining their dominance over the region, and the African continent swallowed under the darkness of European rule forever.
Débrouillez-Vous is a full update that focuses on providing proxy conflicts for the player to enjoy, and as such, we are focusing on ensuring that every part of this patch's skeleton will seamlessly interface with that of existing powers, so if you are playing any nation that interacts with Africa, you will see your gameplay actively enriched by this patch. This patch is not a vague concept, but something that is actively being worked on as you read this. Africa will receive fully reactive skeleton content that goes up until the game's end in the 70s in this update. So, enjoy reading the rest of this diary, and we hope you will be happy with it.
# British West Africa:
https://preview.redd.it/mup47x6kg2ff1.png?width=1764&format=png&auto=webp&s=5fa130b462680f55fefa5b46e4203af3298cec47
When Britain finally capitulated to the German onslaught, it did so not as an island nation, but as the overlord of the Empire upon which the sun never set. What defeat meant, however, was that the sun would indeed set upon much of the British Empire. The victorious Axis powers carved out major concessions from London; Italy gained dominion over the Mediterranean and Near East, while Japan became the undisputed master of South East Asia. Worst of all of these was the loss of India, Victoria's hard-won 'Crown Jewel,' and the foundation of much of Britain's success and wealth over the past two centuries. Adding further injury, the Dominions, all of whom were distant and independent enough to avoid conquest, refused to follow their mother country into the fascist yoke. For any proud Briton, it was a crushing humiliation; a humiliation that would indelibly shape the thinking of the British elite under the New Order.
Initially, the first collaboration government of William Maxwell Aitken, the Lord Beaverbrook, did not change much for Africa, being too focused on the reconstruction and rebuilding of state authority in Britain proper. His successor as Prime Minister, the Duke of Bedford, a noted reactionary fascist, felt more comfortable turning attention back to the remnants of the Empire. He established a colonial consensus within the BPP; Bedford’s government revoked voting rights from all native Africans, limiting the Legislative Councils to whites, although it disempowered even these segregated bodies in favor of more autocratic
governorships. Many of the institutions of British India were grafted onto Africa in an effort to maintain imperial legitimacy - most notably, Edward VIII was crowned as Emperor of Africa under the Bedford government.
The BPP’s party organisation was not exported to Africa; the colonial regimes are strictly non-partisan. Bedford's successors, A. K. Chesterton and Barry Domvile, retained virtually the same colonial policy, backed by an increasingly hawkish and hardline military under the leadership of Gerald Templer and Walter Walker. Both Templer and Walker are experienced colonial enforcers, Templer having suppressed the Mau-Mau in Kenya, and Walker doing the same to the TANU in Tanganyika.
Post-war Britain’s longest-serving Colonial Secretary, and the one who has most defined their new policies, is the Southern Rhodesian aristocrat, Angus Graham, Duke of Montrose. The BPP’s current colonial consensus is only really challenged internally by the Pragmatist faction, who favor granting Home Rule to most colonies and lifting many of the petty racial restrictions. Despite this, the Pragmatists are in no way opposed to the Empire as a concept or to a status quo of de facto white supremacy. The BPP’s status as the "Party of Empire," born in no small part out of opposition to Indian autonomy, makes a true break with colonialism impossible for any of the Collaborationist leaders.
Within the British outposts in West Africa, any tentative liberalisation introduced by the pre-war colonial administrations was rapidly reversed when the BPP regime came to power. The new regime favored indirect rule, racial laws, and the disempowerment of all urban evolues. As these policies began to be implemented, alongside heavy taxes and new economic restrictions designed to make wealth extraction easier, unrest began to increase steadily in British West Africa. The fiercest resistance was in the Gold Coast, leading to a wave of disorganised violence sweeping the colony in 1948, after a veterans' protest in Accra was brutally suppressed. Although Governor Gerald Creasy successfully ended the demonstrations, they led to the Convention People's Party's rise under the leadership of the exiled nationalist, Kwame Nkrumah. A robust nationalist underground soon took shape under the direction of the CPP. When the First Great Uprising erupted in the Home Isles in 1956, this clandestine network gambled everything on a general uprising against the confused and undermanned garrison force. The gamble, miraculously, paid off. With the British Army bogged down at home, the revolutionaries had the momentum to seize Accra and other key positions; a significant portion of the native forces in Ghana defected, sealing the revolution's victory. The Ghanaian underground had already formed clandestine ties to American intelligence, and they immediately requested American support in defending their gains. Once the Americans entered the picture, plans for a joint Anglo-French counterattack were shelved indefinitely. In addition, Ghana found an unlikely ally far closer to the heart of Europe - Sweden. The Swedes entered a relationship with the Ghanaian government, agreeing to provide them with arms, including the planes for their air force, and diplomatic ties developed quickly, to Britain’s disgust.
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The success of the Ghanaian Revolution, the first of its kind in Africa, sent shockwaves across the continent. The aura of European invincibility had been shaken to its core during the Second World War, as Africans watched their overlords succumb to the German juggernaut, but that aura had gradually returned over the years as attempts to break free of colonial rule ended in failure and slaughter from Kenya to Madagascar. Ghana served as a reminder that struggle was not hopeless, and that despite the odds, freedom was in fact possible for those willing to fight. It was for this reason that 1956 would
The BPP’s party organisation was not exported to Africa; the colonial regimes are strictly non-partisan. Bedford's successors, A. K. Chesterton and Barry Domvile, retained virtually the same colonial policy, backed by an increasingly hawkish and hardline military under the leadership of Gerald Templer and Walter Walker. Both Templer and Walker are experienced colonial enforcers, Templer having suppressed the Mau-Mau in Kenya, and Walker doing the same to the TANU in Tanganyika.
Post-war Britain’s longest-serving Colonial Secretary, and the one who has most defined their new policies, is the Southern Rhodesian aristocrat, Angus Graham, Duke of Montrose. The BPP’s current colonial consensus is only really challenged internally by the Pragmatist faction, who favor granting Home Rule to most colonies and lifting many of the petty racial restrictions. Despite this, the Pragmatists are in no way opposed to the Empire as a concept or to a status quo of de facto white supremacy. The BPP’s status as the "Party of Empire," born in no small part out of opposition to Indian autonomy, makes a true break with colonialism impossible for any of the Collaborationist leaders.
Within the British outposts in West Africa, any tentative liberalisation introduced by the pre-war colonial administrations was rapidly reversed when the BPP regime came to power. The new regime favored indirect rule, racial laws, and the disempowerment of all urban evolues. As these policies began to be implemented, alongside heavy taxes and new economic restrictions designed to make wealth extraction easier, unrest began to increase steadily in British West Africa. The fiercest resistance was in the Gold Coast, leading to a wave of disorganised violence sweeping the colony in 1948, after a veterans' protest in Accra was brutally suppressed. Although Governor Gerald Creasy successfully ended the demonstrations, they led to the Convention People's Party's rise under the leadership of the exiled nationalist, Kwame Nkrumah. A robust nationalist underground soon took shape under the direction of the CPP. When the First Great Uprising erupted in the Home Isles in 1956, this clandestine network gambled everything on a general uprising against the confused and undermanned garrison force. The gamble, miraculously, paid off. With the British Army bogged down at home, the revolutionaries had the momentum to seize Accra and other key positions; a significant portion of the native forces in Ghana defected, sealing the revolution's victory. The Ghanaian underground had already formed clandestine ties to American intelligence, and they immediately requested American support in defending their gains. Once the Americans entered the picture, plans for a joint Anglo-French counterattack were shelved indefinitely. In addition, Ghana found an unlikely ally far closer to the heart of Europe - Sweden. The Swedes entered a relationship with the Ghanaian government, agreeing to provide them with arms, including the planes for their air force, and diplomatic ties developed quickly, to Britain’s disgust.
https://preview.redd.it/w6scbbgmg2ff1.png?width=1834&format=png&auto=webp&s=b6b1b99c568b9aa984b1053d20490e1640d5d02b
The success of the Ghanaian Revolution, the first of its kind in Africa, sent shockwaves across the continent. The aura of European invincibility had been shaken to its core during the Second World War, as Africans watched their overlords succumb to the German juggernaut, but that aura had gradually returned over the years as attempts to break free of colonial rule ended in failure and slaughter from Kenya to Madagascar. Ghana served as a reminder that struggle was not hopeless, and that despite the odds, freedom was in fact possible for those willing to fight. It was for this reason that 1956 would
