List of fictional African countries

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This is a list of

fictional countries
that are set somewhere in the continent of Africa.

A

B

  • Babar's Kingdom: from children's book, a country of intelligent bipedal elephants.
  • Bahari: from the CBS television series Scorpion, a small north African nation under the brutal rule of a dictatorship. The nation is a former Nazi German colony and there are several Nazi German military bases located in the deserts of the country.
  • Balaika : A fictional Central African country in the 2014 BBC Radio 4 Play "When The Laughter Stops", written by Sibusiso Mamba, co-created with Daliso Chaponda and with additional material by Ava Vidal. In the play two stand-up comedians get into trouble in a country that is in the process of deciding whether homosexuality should be a capital offence.
  • Balic: A fictional African country featured in the Japanese anime television series
    Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid
    .
  • Bangalla: from The Phantom comic strip. The Phantom's base lies in the deep woods of this central African nation.
  • Bapetikosweti: The "homeland" state in which the South African satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys (under the guise of his drag character, Evita Bezuidenhout) was the South African ambassador.
  • Beninia: from
    John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar
  • Birani: African nation featured in the film The Gods Must Be Crazy. Located near Namibia and Angola. Has a Banana Forest at a place called Dumgase.
  • Bialya (Currently Greater Bialya): an evil nation in the show Young Justice, led by a mind controlling female by the name of Queen Bee. She is part of The Light, a group of supervillains.
  • Bocamo: a gold-producing West African state from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Kitara". Renowned as a particularly brutal practitioner of apartheid.
  • Bonande: West African country in the film La Nuit de la vérité
  • Bongo Congo: African kingdom in animated cartoon series King Leonardo and His Short Subjects
  • Bora-Baru Fictional country located inside Tanzania, having a coast. From the Marvel Comics.
  • Botswanga: African country in the film
    Le crocodile du Botswanga
    with its king
  • Bulmeria: an African country mentioned in the webcomic,
    It's Walky!
  • Bulungi: A country located south of
    Côte d'Ivoire and southeast of Liberia featured in an article by satirical news group The Onion
    . In the article, the United States' "ambassador" to Bulungi is accused of making the country up. Bulungi's capital city is Yabba-Dabba.
  • Buranda: African country in the BBC comedy series Yes Minister, formerly known as "British Equatorial Africa"
  • Burunda: Fictional country located in Southern Africa. From the Marvel comics, it is not to be confused with Burundi.
  • Butua: African country of cannibals in the novel Aline and Valcour by the Marquis de Sade.

C

  • Transformers
    series
  • Canaan: African nation bordering Wakanda from the Marvel universe.
  • Claw Island: African nation occupying the island of Madagascar as portrayed in a video by The Onion about the United States sending US$3 billion worth of aid to Andorra.

D

  • Darrar, Federal Republic of: A country in the Horn of Africa based on Ethiopia in the novel Borderlines by Michela Wrong.[5][6]
  • North Darrar: A country in the Horn of Africa based on Eritrea in the novel Borderlines by Michela Wrong. The capital city is Lira. The country neighbours the Federal Republic of Darrar and has fought a war against it over a border dispute based on the Eritrean–Ethiopian War.[7][8]

E

F

  • Federal Republic of South Africa: A South African state mentioned in the 1991 novel Vortex, by Larry Bond and Patrick Larkin. It is the successor state to the apartheid-era "Republic of South Africa" and is established after a civil war takes place in South Africa over the fate of apartheid in the early 1990s; its capital is Johannesburg after having been moved there from Pretoria due to the latter city's negative association with the apartheid regime and the subsequent civil war.

G

  • Genosha: an island nation which was established as a mutant homeland in Marvel Comics
  • Ghalea: a small African nation whose pro-Western government is key to stability in the area, from the Mission: Impossible episode "The Money Machine"
  • Ghudaza: Small fictional country bordering Wakanda. From the Marvel Comics.
  • Gindra: a small nation in
    Metal Gear: Ghost Babel
  • DC Comics Universe; In 1999 it became a member of the United Nations
  • Gorotoland: an African republic and site of Cold War conflict in Allen Drury's novel Capable of Honor.
  • Great Islam Nation: a theocratic state which extends on Middle-East and Africa in the two novels Wang by French author Pierre Bordage.
  • Guadec: African country in an episode of Spooks. Led by reformist President Manu Baffong.
  • Gwinalia: fictional African country in the PBS show Chocolate.

H

  • Halwan: Fictional African nation bordering Algeria and Libya. Featured in the Marvel comics.

I

K

L

  • Ligeria: African home of the agent Benjamin N’udu in the Canadian TV series InSecurity.
  • Logosia: African country from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Crane".
  • Lombuanda: an independent white-supremacist African country on the Gulf of Guinea in the Mission: Impossible episode "The Diamond". Underdeveloped and densely forested, Lombuanda is ruled by French-speaking settlers who keep two million black citizens starved and without 'schools, hospitals, or any voice in government'. The title of prime minister is held by Hendrik Durvard, a despotic white Lombuandan who plans to use a 27,000-carat diamond to finance his seizure of tribal reserves.
  • Lyrobia: African nation, ruled by Queen Tassara, in French/Canadian animated TV series Totally Spies! containing desert and rain forest environments, with an Arabic-inspired culture.
  • Lamumba: A small, prospering county, published in DC Comics, and was first seen in Doom Patrol #100, "The Fantastic Origin Of The Beast Boy".

M

  • Malagawi: African country in
    le Professionnel, film by Georges Lautner starring Jean-Paul Belmondo
    .
  • Matobo: a state based on Zimbabwe, from the 2005 film The Interpreter. "Matobo" is also used briefly in 24: Redemption in a scene where an international videoconference takes place and on 24 (season 7), where Ule Matobo (fictional) is a former president of Sangala, the fiction African nation. The nation was also used as the setting for the Swedish film Morgan Pålsson - världsreporter, but spelled with an accent, Matóbo.
  • Maurania: African country in
    Paradise
     video game.
  • Mbangawi: African country located between Tanzania and Kenya. Featured in the Marvel Comics.
  • Mohannda: Fictional country bordering Wakanda and Zwartheid. From the Marvel Comics.
  • Moloni Republic: Southern African country from the video game Metal Gear Acid.
  • Mombaka: an African country featured in the films Red Scorpion and Jagga Jasoos.
  • Mumbambu: African nation occupying the Central and East region as portrayed in a video by The Onion about the United States sending US$3 billion worth of aid to Andorra as it was believed to be south of Mumbambu in Africa, not Europe.[10]
  • Murkatesh: Country bordering Algeria and Nigeria. From the Marvel Comics.

N

O

P

Q

R

  • Republic of West Africa: Highlighted in the episode 6 of season 1 of Madam Secretary ("The Call"), the Republic of West Africa is lodged in between Gabon and Cameroon (around the area of Equatorial Guinea) and is said to be ruled by a military junta following a coup. In the context of the episode, the ruling council of the RWA is aiming to commit ethnic cleansing against the Beko people, marching on the city of "St. Juste", one of the Beko peoples' primary population centres. The North and Interior of the RWA are said to be ruled by warlords armed with "RPGs and Machine Guns". One of the official languages of the RWA is French, although some of the Beko people are noted to speak Igbo. It is also implied that a heavy number of the Beko people within the RWA follow the Christian faith, primarily Roman Catholicism.
  • Rudyarda: Small African nation north of Wakanda. Featured in the Marvel Comics.

S

T

U

  • Ujanka: Fictional country located near Wakanda and Lake Turkana. From the Marvel comics.
  • Umbazi: Country from the Marvel comics. Borders Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Umbutu, National Republic of: A post invasion nation in Independence Day: Resurgence that during the 1996 war was the one place where the Harvesters landed.
  • United Mitanni Commonwealth: A fictional African country in
    Lee Correy
    's science fiction novel Manna.
  • United States of Southern Africa (USSA): A country born out of the Republic of South Africa in 2061: Odyssey Three. Apartheid in South Africa ends some time in the late 2010s or early 2020s, followed by a mass exodus of Afrikaners and capital flight out of the country towards Europe. A terrorist insurgency of Afrikaners called "The Bund" conducts attacks against the USSA.[12]
  • United States of Southern Africa: A country born out of the Republic of South Africa in World War Z
  • Upper Gorm: Fictional African country in the 1980 comedy film First Family.
  • UAC: An unnamed African country depicted in the video game Far Cry 2, can also be presumed to be named Seko.

W

  • Wadiya: Country ruled by the protagonist in the 2012 film The Dictator. Located by the Red Sea.
  • Black Panther
    .
  • West Angola: a fictional African country referred to in Scandal.
  • West African Union: a fictional merger of Liberia and Sierra Leone in Seafighter a 1999 novel by James H. Cobb. Ruled by Premier-General Obe Belewa.[13]
  • West Monrassa: Central African country in an episode of Spooks. Run by President Gabriel Sakoa, a corrupt leader planning a genocide against the people in the north of the country.

Z

References

  1. ^ Zimmerman, Jonathan (2014-07-09). "Americans Think Africa Is One Big Wild Animal Reserve". The New Republic. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
  2. ^ "AfDB-World Bank: Improving the Quality of Projects - African Development Bank". Afdb.org. 2006-01-23. Retrieved 2010-12-11.
  3. ^ "Slide 1" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-12-11.
  4. ^ http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/184472/wizard-of-the-crow/
  5. ^ Thomson, Ian (11 September 2015). "'Borderlines', by Michela Wrong". Financial Times.
  6. TheGuardian.com
    . 22 August 2015.
  7. ^ Thomson, Ian (11 September 2015). "'Borderlines', by Michela Wrong". Financial Times.
  8. TheGuardian.com
    . 22 August 2015.
  9. ^ Mr. Bones (2001) - IMDb
  10. ^ "U.S. Shocked Andorra Not in Africa". YouTube.
  11. ^ Karimi, Faith (21 September 2017). "Trump praises nonexistent African country's health care". CNN. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  12. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "2061 Odyssey Three Series, Book 3, Arthur C. Clarke (Audiobook)". YouTube.
  13. ISBN 0-7472-6149-0
    .

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