[Membroj] Alternate History: Zionist Uganda

[Ralph Dumain]

 From the Alternate History
http://alternatehistory.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=38786

The answer came from the State of Israel. In the 1910s, Polish 
immigrant L.L. Zamenhof had tried to bridge the gap between the 
African residents and Jewish settlers through an artificial language. 
This language, Esperanto, had eased helped ease tensions between the 
two groups.

Continued by his son Adam (who died in the Shoah in another 
universe), Esperanto had slowly begun to spread. Mostly confined to 
the urban centers of Israel, the language had begun to spill over 
into South Africa before the Second World War.

With the establishment of the African Federation, a new language was 
needed to bind the Federation together. The Akademio de Esperanto, a 
language institute in Port Shalom that had existed since the 1930s, 
began dispatching educators to establish similar centers throughout 
the Federation. Esperanto continued to spread. In the comming 
decades, it would become the language that would bind Africa together.

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With the large-scale discovery of oil in Nigeria, and diamonds in 
Baraka (in the old Central African Republic), the AF's economy 
continued to climb. Esperanto became more and more established as 
Africa's unifying language. [Unlike in OTL, Esperanto combines many 
more Africanized words in its vocabulary].