[Brys]

I'd hope so (skimming over the moral complexities of whether discovering the modern world is a good thing), but being the cynic I am, I don't think that real life will be so kind (rebelling would probably see genocide against them, not rebelling means they lose their way of life). Sub-saharan Africa is locked in a poverty cycle of famine and war that without outside assistance it cannot escape. Throughout much of the continent people live as they have done for thousands of years. They may know of the existence of the "modern world", but they also know that it is a hopeless dream that they cannot obtain, which is a sad truth. While !Xabbu is able to become a part of this community in Otherland, for most I don't think it is possible.

One of the great things about Tad Williams is that he actually decides to write an SF series which is based in South Africa rather than in the usual Western setting.