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29->'''Ulysses Klaue:''' What do you actually know about Wakanda?\
30'''Agent Ross:''' Umm ... shepherds, textiles, cool outfits?
31-->-- ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}''
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33A Bulungi is a fictional little country nestled somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa. If used as a setting, almost always a thick jungle or parched Savannah, even though the southern region is more temperate.
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35Bulungis are often populated by a mix of white and black residents, the former of whom usually speak with vaguely British and/or Afrikaner accents, and the latter will probably speak Pidgin English[[note]]A creole dialect of English mixed with local African languages, which was written for the first time in 2017 when Creator/TheBBC launched [[https://www.bbc.com/pidgin a Nigerian Pidgin]] version of their site, though fictional examples will usually just amount to [[YouNoTakeCandle broken English]] with African-like words [[PoirotSpeak in between]][[/note]]. The country's name is usually [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign composed of simple syllables]] that are stereotypically "African"-sounding.
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37In many cases, the Bulungi is in the midst of the transition process from a PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny or [[TheGeneralissimo military dictatorship]] to a more democratic type of rule, [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism though this might not be going well for them]]. If there is a dictator, expect him to have MajoredInWesternHypocrisy. In particularly incorrect works, [[AfricaIsACountry the entirety of Africa]] may be generalized as a Bulungi.
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39Compare and contrast with {{Ruritania}}, {{Qurac}}, {{Wutai}}, {{Countrystan}}, BananaRepublic, TropicalIslandAdventure and DarkestAfrica. {{Afrofuturis|m}}t works like to explore and subvert this trope.
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46* In ''Manga/{{Cyborg 009}}'', Pyunma, also known as 008, comes from the Republic of Muanba. There is a short story arc where the cyborg team travels there in the midst of a revolution. Muanba's economy is in ruins due to this conflict, as it had soon grown into an arms race manipulated by Black Ghost, a weapons company that sells each side ever more effective weapons.
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50* ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'': Averted. Wakanda isn't such a country, but is instead a HiddenElfVillage that does everything in its power to prevent being controlled by outside forces or forsake their native culture (made easier by the fact that they are the world's only natural source of [[{{Unobtainium}} Type I vibranium]], which gives them enough political clout (and technological prowess) to keep themselves relatively free of unwelcome outside influence). Wakanda is surrounded by Bulungis, though (like Azania and Niganda), so that Black Panther stories about regional politics can avoid mentioning real nations.
51* ''Franchise/GIJoe'': A country called Equatorial Kalingaland featured heavily in one issue of ''G.I. Joe Special Missions''. The location was not narrowed down any more than that, but if it really is equatorial, it has to be either in Africa, South America or on an island. The predominance of black population, the existence of a royal family, and the lack of sea nearby suggest Africa.
52* ''ComicBook/{{Hitman|1993}}'': In one arc, Tommy Monaghan and his friends try to escape a bad situation in Gotham City by hiring themselves as mercenaries to the government of an African country called Tynanda. However, when they realize that the president is a murderous dictator backed by an EvilColonialist as TheManBehindTheMan, they change sides and join the rebels.
53* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': Creator/{{Christopher Priest|Comics}}'s run has the league crashing in this kind of country, running afoul of a an evil ComicBook/BlackPanther counterpart in the process.
54* ''ComicBook/DeKiekeboes'': The African state "Boeloe Boeloe" (pronounced like "Bulu Bulu"), ruled by an UsefulNotes/IdiAmin parody, is featured in a few albums.
55* ''ComicBook/XMen'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsStorm Storm]]'s uncle was the dictator of such a country.
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59* The Squee-Jee Islands, off the coast of equatorial Africa, in ''ComicStrip/TheKatzenjammerKids''. Although the King was rather authoritative, and insisted on wearing a traditional grass skirt, it was portrayed as a semi-modern society in the 30's through 50's.
60* Bangalla, homeland of ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'', somewhere on the east coast of Africa. It was an English colony when the series started in the 1930s, and transitioned to self-rule in the 1960s. Bangalla handled the transition to the post-Colonial age better than most, and the capital of Mawitaan (formerly Morristown) is a modern city, but there are still deep jungles and parched savannas a-plenty. [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness In the first stories]], Bangalla was in the Indian subcontinent (its name may remind some of Bangladesh).
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64* Nibia from ''[[Film/AceVentura Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls]]''.
65* In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', Lois Lane goes to Nairomi to interview a war chief / terrorist chief. The name is most probably inspired by Nairobi, the capital and largest city of Kenya.
66* In ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', the generic African country of Nambutu that Bond storms the embassy of in the ActionPrologue. [[http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/fic(bond.html Its flag]] is a combo of the Djibouti and Mozambique one. The scenes were actually [[CaliforniaDoubling filmed in the Bahamas]].
67* ''Film/ComingToAmerica'' has Zamunda, a general riff on RealLife Zambia, with elements of Swaziland and Lesotho thrown in (i.e. it's a rare example of a modern African monarchy). Unlike most other Bulungis depicted, Zamunda is shown as being quite prosperous, with its ruling family living in luxury.
68* Birani at the beginning of ''Film/TheGodsMustBeCrazy'', where their Cabinet gets shot up by [[AfricanTerrorists Sam Boga's men]]. It is supposedly located near Namibia and Angola and has a banana grove at a place called Dumgase.
69* ''Film/TheInterpreter'' has [[http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/fic(int.html Matobo]], a southern African country liberated by a Dr. Zuwanie who now is a corrupt dictator that kills his opponents. Matobo is similar to UsefulNotes/{{Zimbabwe}} (previously Rhodesia), making Dr. Zuwanie a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed fictional counterpart]] to Robert Mugabe (ironically, the film was cleared by censors for release in that country, though government officials denounced it). The protagonist of the movie, Silvia, is a white citizen of that country. The country seems to be somewhere near South Africa, because when the FBI is looking for Silvia they check all flights to Johannesburg. The screenwriters of the movie seemed to have gone to great lengths to make Matobo relatively realistic - notably, they hired a professional linguist to [[ConLang create Matobo's fictional official language]], [[http://web.archive.org/web/20050425234251/http://www.cityboxoffice.co.uk/africanlanguagecentre/call/interpreter.htm Ku]] (derived from various existing southern Bantu languages and dialects).
70* Wakanda of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse is a [[SubvertedTrope subversion of this trope.]] ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' (which formally introduces Black Panther, Wakanda's national superhero) depicts it as an isolationist sub-Saharan country of pastoral tribelands, with no white residents at all. Then ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'' reveals Wakanda is really radically different: they pose as pastoral tribeland to avoid attracting attention, but beneath the holograms is a case study in {{Afrofuturism}}.
71* ''La Nuit de la vérité'' (''Film/NightOfTruth'') is an actual ''African'' drama film that deliberately features two different {{Bulungi}}s, called Bonande and Nayak. The movie was a 2004 co-production of Burkina Faso and France.
72* The 1981 French movie ''Film/LeProfessionnel'', starring Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo, has his character going on a secret mission to Malagawi in order to assassinate its Idi Amin-esque PresidentForLife. It definitely earns a distinction for laziness in invoking the trope by the way its filmmakers merely took the existing country of Malawi and added a "-ga-" in the middle.
73* The Creator/DolphLundgren action movie ''Film/RedScorpion'' takes place in the [[DirtyCommunists communist]] nation of Mombaka, in the middle of a civil war between LaResistance and the government and their Soviet, Cuban, and Czechoslovakian allies. Given the country's savanna environment and Marxist government, it appears to be inspired by either Mozambique or Angola, which were both communist at the time, especially given that the film was shot in and partly funded by South Africa, who was in the midst of fighting a war with Angola at the time.
74* Tigora in ''Film/{{Sheena}}''.
75* The Soviet spy movie ''Film/{{TASS Is Authorized to Declare}}...'', based on the eponymous novel by Yulian Semyonov, has Nagonia.
76* Zembala in ''Film/TheWildGeese''.
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81* Creator/EvelynWaugh:
82** Ishmaelia from ''Literature/{{Scoop}}''.
83** Azania from ''Black Mischief'', often interpreted as a stand-in for [[GenteelInterbellumSetting inter-war]] Ethiopia.
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86* Gorotoland from Allen Drury's sequels to ''Advise and Consent''
87* Ambagazali, the home country of ''Bunduki'' in the works of Creator/JTEdson.
88* ''Chanda's Secrets'' and ''Chanda's Wars'' by Allan Stratton both are about the title Chanda in an unnamed AIDS ravaged sub-Saharan African country.
89* Nmkwami in ''Changeover'' by Creator/DianaWynneJones. As the title suggests, the novel is set during the transition to self-rule.
90* Zanj, Kush and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Sahel]] in Creator/JohnUpdike's novel ''The Coup''. As befits Updike, these are somewhat better-educated names, being historical terms for actual regions of Africa (Zanj refers to the central part of the eastern coast, roughly corresponding to coastal Kenya and Tanzania, Kush is an Ancient Egyptian name for a state of Classical Antiquity that existed in what is now northern Sudan, and Sahel is the semi-arid region on the southern edge of the Sahara).
91* Creator/TerryPratchett never got round to fleshing out Howondaland, the Literature/{{Discworld}}'s Africa, to the same degree of detail he gave to, say, its Australia. It has been revealed that at the time of his death, he was at least blocking out a novel called ''The Dark Incontinent'' that would have covered things "African". It is possible that a few snippets from this never-to-be-completed-work were used in ''The Compleat Discworld Atlas'', where countries such as Urabewe, S'Belinde, and "the Howondalandian Kingdoms" are briefly mentioned, largely as expies of Black Africa.
92* Zangaro from Creator/FrederickForsyth's ''Literature/TheDogsOfWar''. Based on Equatorial Guinea. It's small enough that a ''single company'' of soldiers with handful of hardened mercenaries as support can take it over.
93* ''Literature/GoodOmens'' has Kumbokoland, an African country that was briefly Sir-Humphrey-Clarksonland, and which has been at peace for three thousand years. That is until [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse War]] pays a visit.
94* The [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny People's Republic of Fernando Poo]], a revolutionary government established by coup d'état in the ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}!'' trilogy. It's name is an [[ToiletHumor immature]] [[PunnyName pun]] on the actual Central African island of Fernando Pó, also known under the native name [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioko Bioko]] and a part of Equatorial Guinea.
95* The neighboring nations Lamblia and Gurunduwaju in Creator/StanislawLem's short story "Professor A. Donda" from ''Literature/MemoirsOfASpaceTraveller''.
96* Andrew Norman Wilson's novel ''Literature/MyNameIsLegion'' has Zinariya. It's ruled by a dictator, General Bindiga, and has globally important copper mines.
97* ''Literature/NickVelvet'': Nick gets involved in the politics of the newly independent African republic of Gola in "The Theft of the Seven Ravens" when he his hired to steal the republic's gift to their former colonial master Great Britain.
98* If you want a Congo-esque {{Planetville}} Bulungi, go no farther then Haruun Kal, homeworld of Mace Windu and the setting of the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' novel ''Literature/{{Shatterpoint}}''.
99* In the ''Literature/JamesBond'' novel ''Literature/{{Solo|JamesBond}}'', Bond is sent into the fictional African country of Zamzarin, which is being ravaged by a civil war against the province of Dahum (which sounds just a few letters away from Darfur). His job is to assassinate the leader of the opposing side that the country can return to its oil-dealings.
100* Beninia from ''Literature/StandOnZanzibar''. There's also Dahomalia and [=RUNG=], but these are mergers of existing [=IRL=] countries.
101* Nagonia from Yulian Semyonov's spy thriller ''TASS Is Authorized to Declare...''.
102* The newly independent and thoroughly primitive Republic of Magoon was the setting of some stories in Punch.
103* Pharamaul, an island off the coast of Southern Africa, is a British colony in “The Tribe That Lost its Head” by Nicholas Monserrat. In the sequel, “Richer Than All His Tribe”, it is granted independence, with ghastly results.
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107* ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'': In "Voices Carry", Jordan Collier entered into business with an international weapons dealer named Ian Dravitt. His plan was to fund a coup in San Tomé, an island nation off the west coast of UsefulNotes/{{Africa}} (obviously based on the Central African island country of São Tomé and Príncipe), in the hope of installing a friendly government who would shelter the 4400 if it became necessary. NTAC discovered the plan through the telepathic Gary Navarro but they had no actual proof of any wrongdoing.
108* ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24: Redemption]]'', the MadeForTVMovie, takes place in Sangala, a destabilized African nation whose duly-elected Prime Minister has been deposed by a military coup. The following season, Season 7, sees the Sangalan dictatorship perpetrate terrorism in an attempt to dissuade American President Allison Taylor from a military intervention on behalf of aforementioned Prime Minister.
109* The eleventh episode of ''Series/{{Airwolf}}'' was set in North and South Limbawe and featured the conflict between the two countries. The North Limbawe's air force used antique WWII fighter aircraft, like the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_F4U_Corsair Vought F4U Corsair]] (which would admittedly better fit in a UsefulNotes/ColdWar BananaRepublic setting).
110* ''[[Series/TheATeam The A-Team]]'' had three: Zulabwe from "Diamonds 'n' Dust", and Northern and Southern Triana from "There Goes the Neighborhood".
111* In the ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' episode "Small Game for Big Hunters" it's Kalaya. An old colonel who couldn't face the fact that Kalaya became independent has recreated his Kalayan HQ in rural England. There's a conspiracy to unleash an epidemic of sleeping sickness back in the real Kalaya.
112* ''{{Series/Borgen}}'' had a couple of episodes dealing with the Danish government arranging a peace deal between the warring northern and southern regions of an East African country called Kharun, which was '''definitely not''' Sudan.
113* "[[{{Malaproper}} Uranda-Burundi]]", at least according to Alfred Tetzlaff in ''Series/EinHerzUndEineSeele''. Little do we learn about this alleged country, other than it also allegedly has got exactly one brothel.
114* The long-running German crime investigation series ''Küstenwache'' ("Coast Guard") had an episode which featured the small African monarchy of Sotho. The name and characterization was very obviously inspired by the actual Lesotho.
115* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' has Zambesi, Vixen's homeland and the origin of the spirit totem that she wears. Like Wakanda of the Marvel universe, however, Zambesi is more of a HiddenElfVillage than a normal example of this trope.
116* Wadata from the ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' episode [[Recap/LeverageS03E04TheScheherazadeJob "The Scheherazade Job".]] Also, part of the TieInNovel ''The Zoo Job'' is set in the West African nation of Malani.
117* Israeli comedy series ''Series/LostInAfrica'' features a country named Abuna Kilosa, bordering on Chad and Sudan. They try their best to [[DefiedTrope defy]] the DarkestAfrica stereotype (‘This is not Burkina Faso!’).
118* ''Series/MacGyver1985'' featured several such countries over the course of its run. The country Kambezi from one episode of this show is unusual in that at one point it was actually shown on a map (it was supposedly in the vicinity of South Africa).
119* The ''Series/MadamSecretary'' episode "The Call" has the Republic of West Africa, said to be located between Gabon and Cameroon (the real-life location of Equatorial Guinea). The plot of the episode has Secretary [=McCord=] trying to organize an international response to the RWA's planned genocide of an ethnic minority.
120* One episode of ''Series/ManInASuitcase'' sees [=McGill=] kidnapped by the former British governor of Ecuala, who is convinced (probably correctly) that [=McGill=], in his CIA days, supported the independence movement that ousted him.
121* The ''Series/MissionImpossible'' episode "Kitara" was set in the gold-producing West African nation of Bocamo. It seems to be ruled by a settler minority of German descent, who are unfortunately white supremacists and practice racial segregation of the native populace. The episode the country appears in was clearly a satire on the apartheid-promoting UsefulNotes/ColdWar governments of Rhodesia and South Africa. Another episode, "The Money Machine", had Ghalea, a small country whose pro-Western government was key to stability in the area. Other examples are Logosia from "The Crane" and Lombuanda from "The Diamond".
122* In an episode of ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', Earl is betting on a political election between a regular guy and [[ImAHumanitarian a cannibal]] in Africa that he's following on the news. [[spoiler: The cannibal guy wins.]]
123* "Equatorial Kundu" appears to be a go-to name for Creator/AaronSorkin: a major plotline in ''Series/TheNewsroom'' concerns U.S.-caused riots in the fictional African country of...Equatorial Kundu.
124* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "Monster", it is mentioned that the African warlord General Lawrence Gecongo is attempting to seize power from the legitimately elected President of Uwanda.
125* In ''Series/RumpoleOfTheBailey'', the titular English barrister is contacted by one of his former pupils, now a politician in the West African country Narenga, formerly the British colony New Somerset. The pupil is charged with murder and wants his old pupil-master, a leading criminal defense barrister, to represent him. Rumpole has to deal not only with the fraught politics of the case (as the trial could spark a civil war between the country's two main ethnic groups), but also the frustrating absence of a jury (and, therefore, a heavily biased judge).
126* ''Series/{{Spooks}}'': Series five, episode four featured West Monrassa, led by president Gabriel Sakoa, [[spoiler: who was about to order a genocide on an ethnicity in the north of the country.]] However, another African president at the conference, Manu Baffrong of Gaudec, tells the team most developing African nations and their leaders are not like that. Furthermore, the problem is also the result of [[spoiler: the United States blithely selling Sekoa weapons for UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror and the British government being more concerned about the PR victory of getting their treaty signed than the wellbeing of Africa.]]
127* In ''Series/TheWestWing'', there was Equatorial Kundu, an African nation wracked by genocide. Besides that, there was also mention of a Sahelise Republic.
128* Buranda from ''Series/YesMinister'', [[LampshadeHanging referred to on the show]] as a [=TPLAC=]--"Tinpot Little African Country", a parody of development geography terminology. Prior to its independence it was "British Equatorial Africa". It appears to have replaced real-life Equatorial Guinea on the map.
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132* An episode of ''Radio/ThinkTheUnthinkable'' featured the team at Unthinkable Solutions scheduled to meet with the Minister of Finance for the fictional African state of Nambitrea.
133-->'''Sophie:''' Formerly the [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny Democratic Republic of Nambitrea]], when it was [[DirtyCommies Communist]].\
134'''Ryan:''' And before that it was the [[RunningGag Nambitrean People's Republic]], when it was [[FascistsBedTime Fascist]].\
135'''Sophie:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire And before that it was called New Devon, when it was completely owned by Lord Brinkworth.]]
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139* Bongolesia ([[OverlyLongName The National African Republic of Bongolesia]]), created by miniature wargaming enthusiast Michael T. Murphy, is a southeastern-central African country ruled by PresidentForLife [[FunetikAksent P'hat Daddee]] B'wonah. Hilariously, Bongolesia is often mistaken for a real nation. It has its [[http://bongolesia.blogspot.com/ own tongue-firmly-in-cheek blog]]. The [[http://hem.bredband.net/laros6006/Zagoria/Intro-eng.htm Kingdom of Zagoria]], a former African colony of Imperial Germany, is a partner project of the aforementioned Bongolesia.
140* ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' supplements have occasionally mentioned the fictional African nations of "Lugendu" and "Lurranga"; the former has a president who's secretly a supervillain, while the latter is a generic sort of African dictatorship with an active but low-level revolutionary movement.
141* The ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' TabletopGame/FreedomCity setting has Dakana, which the source material says is located "deep in sub-Saharan Africa, at the crossroads of Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, and the Congo". Different versions of this nation show up in the [[AlternateUniverse alternate universes]] of related to the setting. By default, it is a unique take on the trope as the leader is a [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething super who actually cares about his people]], and the nations itself is stated to be wealthy and technologically advanced thanks to [[{{Unobtainium}} the Daka crystals]] that they have a monopoly on. (This is a blatant CaptainErsatz of Wakanda in the Marvel universe, as described in the comics section of the page.)
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145* ''Theatre/{{Night and Day}}'', by Creator/TomStoppard, is set in “Kambawi”, which comes complete with a ruler who MajoredInWesternHypocrisy (and learned that lesson well).
146* ''Theatre/TheOddCouple'' mentions "Baggi", which has existed since Thursday.
147* Dave Brubeck's jazz musical ''Theatre/TheRealAmbassadors'' features Talgalla.
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151* Ride/DisneyThemeParks: Animal Kingdom's African section features the town of Harambe, East Africa. A nation which, judging by the inscription on a bench nearby, [[BilingualBonus received independence in 1961.]] There were also plans to expand EPCOT in 1983 with an Africa pavilion containing features of multiple nations, but the only country willing to host the exhibit was South Africa, [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra and even Disney's not that evil]].
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155* The early levels of ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizon'' are set in an unspecified East African country, before the action moves north.
156* ''VideoGame/CommandoMercs'' is set in the Central African country of Zutula, where the President of the United States has been kidnapped by rebels.
157* The Kingdom of Mazunda in ''VideoGame/CriminalCaseWorldEdition'', where Case 41 takes place [[ContinuityNod and continues being referenced in subsequent seasons]] via inhabitants or products from there appearing.
158* Subverted in ''VideoGame/EmpireEarthII'', where the Maasai campaign explicitly takes place in Kenya and the tech level is relatively modern (though there is a military strongman with backing from a MegaCorp) thanks to the discovery of {{Unobtainium}} deposits there (the player's faction sells it to another MegaCorp that has no interest in running the country themselves).
159* The setting of ''VideoGame/FarCry2'' is unnamed, but its two named regions (Leboa-Seko and Bowa-Seko) are like this, though they includes multiple environments one might expect in Africa (jungle, desert, savannah) in a very small space. The country's corrupt monarchy was ousted from power and now two factions, the APR and the UFLL, are locked in a civil war.
160* [[BadassPreacher Longinus]] in ''VideoGame/FarCry4'' is implied to be from the same African country of ''Far Cry 2''. He describes it as "a land of death and misery", and used to be a [[AfricanTerrorists warlord]] who sold blood diamonds to anyone who'd buy them. He then received a bullet to the head, after which his life was saved and [[HeelFaithTurn he converted to a priest]] and now works as an ArmsDealer in [[{{Qurac}} Kyrat]] in order to find the blood diamonds and serve as TheAtoner.
161* Southeastern Kenya in ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' is an industrialized and economically advanced version (thanks in large part to having a SpaceElevator); specifically, it's part of the "East African Protectorate".
162* ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven 3'' revolves around an international soccer tournament. The FinalBoss is the national team of Cotarl (Côte-Victoire in the English dub), a tiny African republic. They were trained from a bunch of nobody kids to the strongest soccer team in the world by [[spoiler:Endou Daisuke, the main character's long-thought-dead grandfather.]]
163* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
164** Galzburg in ''VideoGame/MetalGear1'', "[[AlternateContinuity retconned]]" in ''VideoGame/MetalGearGhostBabel'' into Gindra. Unlike most of these examples, Gindra has an exhaustively well-detailed description including things like rainfall, ethnic makeup, and a certain amount of fairly realistic history as a former French colony, which can be accessed through calling one of your support contacts.
165** The Moloni Republic in ''VideoGame/MetalGearAcid''.
166** N'Mani's unnamed country in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''. Our only hint is that the signs on the buildings are in English, which leaves about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_where_English_is_an_official_language 20]] contenders, half that if we cut out those not bordering a large body of water like the one a Metal Gear RAY jumps out of.
167* The first ''Videogame/OperationFlashpoint'' has a mod named Tonal Island, which is focused on a civil war in a fictional African country set in a group of islands lying near the eastern coast of Africa.
168* Kijuju from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'', which is in West Africa and uses the Nigerian Naira as its currency, but is inhabited by people who speak the East African language Swahili.
169* Mazuri from ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'', the country where the Savannah Citadel stages take place. It has a real-world basis, however: The urban areas Sonic visits are based on the city of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djenné Djenné]].
170* ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance 3'': is set in Grand Chien, a French-speaking nation in west Africa, that is small, dependent on diamond exports and currently trapped in a multi-way civil war.
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174* The second episode of Creator/DavidFirth's ''The News Hasn't Happened Yet'' is largely focused around the wartorn (and then suddenly idyllic) African country of Clonka-Minkus.
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178* ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'': Jata's home country (where Sabrina spent a chunk of her childhood), Feraga. It's explained to be an African country that completely avoided colonization and holds no distinction between animals and humans, considering both equal citizens. Its royal family is even composed of leopards, including Jata.
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182* ''Literature/MaleRising'' is a story on Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom whose PointOfDivergence involves the 1835 Malê revolt of Muslim slaves in Brazil being slightly more successful, leading to the freed and exiled slaves founding a nation in our world's Nigeria rooted in liberal Enlightenment values informed by the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution American]], [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution French]], and UsefulNotes/{{Haiti}}an Revolutions. The ideology they develop spreads first across West Africa and then into the broader Muslim world, leading the European empires to take a lighter hand during the Scramble for Africa when they encounter stronger, better-developed states that can't be crushed so easily, and West Africa being a front in the Great War leads the region to industrialize on both sides. By 2015, there are parts of Africa, such as Nigeria, Senegal, Algeria, South Africa, and the Copperbelt, where the living standards are close to European standards, and even many poorer countries like Ethiopia, Angola, and Egypt resemble Eastern Europe more than anything. That said, some parts of Africa still conform to the stereotype; the United Congolese Republic gets run into the ground by a tinpot dictator, East Africa is devastated by a brutal civil war in the 1940s, and Natal becomes a white supremacist minority-rule state.
183* The TropeNamer comes from ''Website/TheOnion'', which had an article about [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/us-ambassador-to-bulungi-suspected-of-making-count,790/ Bulungi]], a West African country whose existence was only attested to by its American ambassador (a stoner who got his job while talking to then-President Clinton in the UsefulNotes/McDonalds where he worked). Besides Bulungi, they've also briefly shown the fictitious country of "Mumbambu" (which, according to the U.S. State Department, encompasses most of East and Central Africa) in one of their news videos.
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187* ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'', straddles the line between this and DarkestAfrica, being a parody of ''Literature/{{Tarzan}}'' but set in [[TheSixties what was then the present day]].
188* The ''WesternAnimation/RamboTheForceOfFreedom'' episode "Rambo and the White Rhino'' has BigBad General Warhawk fomenting war between two fictional African nations, Namboola and Ombasi.
189* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The episode "Simpsons Safari" is set in Tanzania, and the production team did take effort to portray the country realistically, but did slip in some Bulungi-esque tropes, like the country changing regimes and [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny official title]] frequently, and including customs like ear, lip and neck stretching that aren't Eastern African customs at the Masai village.
190-->'''Flight Attendant:''' Attention, passengers. Please prepare for our landing in Tanzania. (''handed paper'') I'm sorry. It is now called New Zanzibar. (''handed another paper'') Excuse me. It is now called [[ProductPlacement Pepsi]] [[OneNationUnderCopyright Presents]] New Zanzibar.
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194* The World Bank uses a fictitious country called "Afrinia" in its training exercises.
195* ''Magazine/PrivateEye'', in its satirical material, tends to use the fictitious African country "Rumbabwe, formerly known as British Rumbabaland", a pun on UsefulNotes/{{Zimbabwe}} and the British dessert "rum baba".
196* In 2017 UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump praised the health care system of a country called "Nambia" during a speech to African leaders at the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations. [[https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/21/africa/trump-nambia-un-africa-trnd/index.html The White House later stated]] that he meant to refer to UsefulNotes/{{Namibia}} (with earlier speculation also suggesting UsefulNotes/{{Zambia}} and UsefulNotes/TheGambia), but not before [[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41345577 a spate of jokes]] on Website/{{Twitter}} depicted Nambia as an example of this trope.
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