There's some fun alternative histories to be written there. I would suggest that life in Africa, India and China in the late 20thC would have been significantly

There's some fun alternative histories to be written there. I would suggest that life in Africa, India and China in the late 20thC would have been significantly more unpleasant than it was. A chaotic and strongly resisted end to empire such as the one seen in Mozambique but involving billions rather than millions would not have been a happy story.