With Nigeria's demise imminent, which SSA country has the chance to reach superpower status?

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Also first I think we need to define in what we mean as in "Superpower."

Superpower in terms of global influence/power like USA, Great Britain and Soviet Union? Highly doubtful. Even if certain African countries obtained warheads.

A regional power that dictates things in their region like China? Germany? India? Saudi Arabia? Russia? Probably...
 

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Listen Love, i have never said Superpower status concerning the nile valley country, but today reality, and today reality the Northern African countries and South Africa(besides Libya, Sudan and Mauritania) are performing better than the majority of sub saharan countries, which is fact! With the Egypt comment, militarily they are the strongest in Africa, as a Sudanese it is hard for me to admit. Again facts!
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They don't have separatist movement like we have in Sudan like the South Kordofan nuba mountain( some their leadership wants to break away and form a independent state or in Nigeria case Biafra independence, or Ethiopia case Oromos. How can you form a country with all these mounting divisions? It only produce chaos and disorder, a bloody interesting way to form a nation state! also we are in the 21st century and countries like Nigeria that export oil everywhere and cannot provide adequate electricity for their population? Even Sudan with its civil conflict in Darfur, and Kordofan in the large cities such as Khartoum able to provide electricity although occasionally we have blackout. It is quite laughable actually! I don't ever hear Egyptians being in Cairo and towns in the South complain about lack of electricity. I agree Egypt has many problems, unemployment being one, division between religious majority(Muslims) and religious(minority Copts)but that politician who utilize that division for their own agenda, and blind sheeps stupidly follow their direction, and of course between secular and religious people, and the division between North and South(which is not much nowadays)but none of them trying to form an independent state, and they don't have to deal with issues such as tribalism,clannism or regionalism which is the heart of the majority of Sub-Saharan African countries problems, which is a fact and the situation in South Sudan is the most extreme case. I have never heard Moroccans, Tunisians, Algerians, Egyptians complains about such things, because they have what we lack is national unity. Which is a base of forming and organizing a state! Again facts!

As far as South Africa, i have not been there for some time before getting married, i know they have issues with black and whites there, and possibly with the mix race group, but i am not sure? When i was there it reminded me of New Zealand (i was following a rugby match there), but i see why they were the strongest country economically at that time, but that is just my opinion!




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I get that. Other African countries have problems that Egypt doesn't have...however Egypt also has problems they don't have. You have 100m+ trying to eke out a living from a single river. 90% of the country is desert and the vast majority of the population live within a few miles of the Nile. To make matters worse, once Ethiopia is done building the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam it's a wrap. They are already facing severe food and water shortages....an economy that can't cope with hundreds of thousands of young ppl entering the work force every year.

So much so the Egyptian Govt is now talking of a 2 child per family policy .

A full blown crisis thus far has been averted by Gulf cash. Even the military you mentioned is heavily reliant on US aid.

A lot of African countries have a future brighter than Egypt IMO. They lack the organisation of Egypt but they don't have these major problems. They just need to figure out a political settlement that all stakeholders are happy with. That's the main source of instability.
 

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it would be dope if Ghana and Ivory Coast came up in a big way
 

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What can really help are having more living abroad(successful ones of course) to contribute more of their resources/skills towards their countries' progress. Heck, even the children born abroad can also be of decent help.
 

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nope. fractured government and low population

some of yall gonna be in shock when that civil war breaks out

As much as some people would love it.
Its just not happening.
OP says it is imminent. What does imminent mean though. Today, tommorow, next year, when OP........please tell us so I can laugh even more.
 

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Nigeria is a mess

Once we get our shyt together we'll be a superpower. We have enormous natural resources and the longest coastline in Africa facing Asia and the Middle East. In 40 years Somalia could develop rapidly due to our mercantile history. The richest Africans in Kenya are Somalis. Trust me I'm not joking
 

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Once we get our shyt together we'll be a superpower. We have enormous natural resources and the longest coastline in Africa facing Asia and the Middle East. In 40 years Somalia could develop rapidly due to our mercantile history. The richest Africans in Kenya are Somalis. Trust me I'm not joking
sorry the population is too low in Somalia to project any power outside East Africa/Middle East. yall have your somaliland issue and al shabab issue too
 

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Not that I think Somalia is a potential "super power."

But population is incredibly deceptive given there are more Somalis outside of Somalia than inside of it.

Also has some of the best terrain in Africa.
 
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