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**Dev. Status** | Conceptual

*"So softly they moan, please leave us alone*

*As back and forth they are pacing.*

*And they cover their ears and try not to hear*

*With pillows of silk they're embracing.*

*And the crackling crowd is laughing out loud,*

*peeking in at the target they're chasing.*

*Now trembling inside the ringing of revolution."*

- Ringing of Revolution, sung by APO troops when raiding South African & Rhodesian farmers
The **African People's Organization** or **APO** for short is an alliance of several communist groups operating across the African continent. Their ultimate goal is the creation of the **United African Collective**, a continent-wide supranational union designed to free the oppressed black proletariat while preserving traditional culture and keeping Africa free of Moscow's grubby hands. The APO, like the Vietcong & the MIR, is aided by friendly local nations such as Liberia and Sierra Leone who allow them to set up bases within their borders. These allies also help train and supply the APO & sometimes even fight alongside them in battle. The APO is a fan faction created by Cervantes99 and Weeb King.

## At A Glance

 **Basic Look** | Radical leftist African revolutionary groups (*Umkhonto we Sizwe*, MPLA, FRELIMO, etc.)

## Background

### The Dark Continent is Blood Red

It comes as no surprise that communism's emphasis on anti-imperialism struck many chords with many whose lands are colonies of another power. As a matter of fact, the Soviet Union became the primary source of support for numerous independence movements, with some even adding the installation of Marxist-Leninist states to their endgoals. This, of course, soured themselves in the eyes of the Allied Nations, causing the colonial powers (which are, well, Allied core members) to crack down on these insurgencies, using the expulsion or even massacres of white civilians as a casus belli.

What really cemented Peacekeeper deployment against these rebels was their blatant ties to notorious revolutionary Che Guevara. After he helped Fidel Castro depose the Batista regime in Cuba, he traveled to the Congo in 1965 to assist Laurent-Désiré Kabila's Simba rebels. His attempt to return to Cuba thwarted by Allied spies, his stay in Africa was extended, long enough that he was able to reshape the Congolese fighters into a competent fighting force. Soon, they were able to succesfully hold the line against Legion mercenaries in northern Congo, even after Patrice Lumumba was arrested.

Emboldened by the small victory the Simbas managed to attain, anti-colonial rebels began contacting Guevara for assistance. He quickly involved himself with FRELIMO in Mozambique and the MPLA in Angola, which sent contacts to Portuguese Guinea in hopes of forming a unified African nationalist movement. The Union of African Socialist Republics in West Africa intervened even more in conflicts across the continent, and eastern Africa found itself beset with radicals who wish to spread socialism across the horn. Even in the south, Umkhonto no Sizwe disavowed Nelson Mandela for 'being seduced by Geneva's neo-colonialists', and attacks against South African Reservists became more common.

However, the African League's message of pan-Africanism was spat out by the nascent *Organização de Pessoas Africanas*, or '*African People's Organization* as José Eduardo dos Santos called it, the name stuck. Viewing communism as yet another outside influence that must be wiped off Africa, the Panafrican Divisions wasted no time combating the APO as they wrestle with Allied African Command and the Syndicate for the soul of civilization's cradle. The League's vision, dos Santos contends, is nothing but thinly-veiled colonialism antithetical to the pipe dream that is the United African Collective, where both the people's welfare and their traditions are free of foreign control. Both the Iron Fangs and Superb Solutions see the Simbas as nuisances, getting in the way of power and business.

Even after Guevara was assassinated by Tanya in South America, the APO fights on, feeling more emboldened to bring about the worker's revolution in Africa and kick out the imperialists - those from Moscow included.

## APO Trans-Liberation Army

*"Comrades, warriors, brothers, our beautiful homeland is a mess, there's just no way around it. In her west are the feudal fascists who dare say they are fighting for the freedom of Africans everywhere when they are just puppets of a far off island, in the east are the invaders from the subcontinent whom I had once hoped would join us in the struggle of impoverished nations but have since just become puppets themselves, this time to the very people who held both of our peoples down for decades. Even some of our once most trusted comrades like Mandela and Nasser have been seduced by the neo-colonialists in London. Things may seem bleak for us but our land is not yet lost. As long was we continue the struggle of the maroons in Jamaica, the hereros in Zambia and the mau maus in Kenya, our cause will never truly be lost! No matter how many Iron Fangs pierce our flesh, no matter how many terrorist bombs blow up our marketplaces, no matter how many of our brother are killed by Mr. Smith in Salisbury, Africa will never be lost!"*

-José Eduardo dos Santos at the first APO National Congress in Conakry, Guinea

### Deathmatch Reinforcements

**African People's Volunteer Frontier Force**

In times of trouble, the APO can call on the socialist governments already in power in Africa to come to their aid in the midst of battle. The African People's Volunteer Frontier Force (APVFF) is a multi-national force of best soldiers and equipment Red Africa has to offer. While originally planned to be incorporated into the Red Army as part of the failed ASR Initiative, the APVFF has become an miniature version of the Allied Reservists for the socialist states of Africa meant to defend against attempts to topple their governments. The APVFF provides the APO with badly-needed heavy vehicles.

 File:IconAPO.png | Mokèlé-mbèmbé | During their attempts to support MIR guerrillas in Latin America, the communist states of West Africa were able to get their hands on some captured eugenics blueprints. Without the machinery or technology to perform eugenic engineering, the plans were left to gather dust in the University of Monrovia. Eventually, the Pangaeans began operations in Africa where several of their research personnel were taken prisoner by the APO in the Congo and forced to create prehistoric war machines for the enemy. The fruit of their efforts is the Mokèlé-mbèmbé, a fearsome hybrid of several sauropods with the head of an allosaurus and a personality to match. Able to withstand a beating thanks to its ankylosaurus style plating, the Mokèlé is capable of rampages that would put Sally to shame. However, the Mokèlé-mbèmbé can only be trained once per battle and costs a pretty penny so be wise when considering its deployment.

## Behind the Scenes

The APO takes inspiration from the efforts of the Soviet Union & Red China to support communist governments in Africa as well as the idea of left-wing nationalism which combines Marxist ideology with patriotism for one's country. They also take influence from the video game Far Cry 2.