Africa was somewhat less under European influence in the Chaos timeline than it was in OTL. This at least proved true for sub-Saharan Africa, where the discoveries by Portugal took longer, due to several circumstances. The opposite happened in North Africa: The Triple Monarchy of England-Castille-Portugal (and later France and Italy) conquered most of it and started to bring Arabs as slaves to Atlantis, replacing them by European settlers. Except for Egypt, these settlers would hold power even after the breakdown of their respective empires until present.