my own ideas in relation to the scenario that the Bantu expansion never happened just like in OTL (most possibly through assimilation to a series of earlier civilizations who possessed/acquired the same technology and know-how as the proto-Bantus); one of my suggestions is the possibility that the Ubangian-speaking peoples would settle the whole Congo River Basin (renamed Ubangi in relation to such scenario), which means their settlement area extended the OTL countries of Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly known as Zaire), Republic of the Congo and northernmost Angola (Cabinda included). The rest of the history, contemporary period included, depends on the circumstances.
For the modern-day flag of Ubangistan (the hypothetical name for this ATL African nation), I've created a flag that combined the elements of its counterparts in a couple of OTL counterparts:
Central African Republic
and
the Belgian Congo (currently the DRC)
; the most noticeable difference is the stripes: while the design is inspired by the CAR flag, I modified it a bit by replacing the color of the topmost stripe with red.
Created and edited on MS Paint, Pixlr and Photoscape.
