Tanganyika Confederation

The Tanganyikan Confederation was a major African confederation which originated in Tanzania in Eastern Africa, but would eventually expand to encompass most of the African continent, besides a few colonized areas at its edges. Just before it collapsed, it was the single largest nation in Africa, and one of the major powers of the world after the fall of Terra. The country was a confederation made up of hundreds of distinct tribes and cultures. They were one of the USSR's allies.
At its peak, they controlled all of East Africa, most of Central Africa and West Africa besides the Congo and part of Nigeria, parts of North Africa south of the Mediterranean coast, the Arabian peninsula, and a large portion of Southern Africa, not including a small portion of Namibia and South Africa itself. The nation fell due to the solar flare's destruction of communication technologies.
== History ==
Tanganyika was established in 215AD. Early on, they quickly expanded across the interior of east Africa. Although Somalia controlled most of its coasts, they never pushed inland, allowing for Tanganyika to fill in the area relatively quickly. By 218, they controlled all of the interior of east Africa. They began to technologically develop thanks to donations from Asia and later the USSR, who became their primary foreign supporter by giving them new technologies. After the death of Somalia's leader the following year, Tanganyika used the chaos to invade and take control over most of their territory, and began expanding into Madagascar and Arabia. By 222, they controlled most of Arabia besides the areas owned by Byzantium, and had conquered the area formerly owned by the Central African Empire. They did not support the USSR when they were invaded.
After the dissolution of the Terran Confederation, Tanganyika began their largest period of expansion, rapidly moving into the territories in Africa that had been freed by their withdrawal. They moved across the Sahara, annexing lands all the way up to the Atlantic coastline. In addition to this, they participated in the Great Brazilian War, giving them all of Brazil's colonies in Africa, which were in Angola and Cameroon. They also expanded into the Kalahari. 
Although they temporarily took over coastal Libya, threats from Byzantium forced them to give it up. Over the next few years, they consolidated their gains, and expanded into the rest of Mali, as well as northeastern Madagascar. They also established a small colony in Baffin Island, which they then sold to Perm for an extremely high price, and they took over some islands in the south Atlantic. During the Celestial Civil War, Tanganyika sent support to the Syndicalists.
As a result of the breakdown of communications across its lands due to the solar flare of 232, Tanganyika fell into chaos and collapsed, with its government retreating into Kigoma.
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