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By Gary Oswald On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...

By Gary Oswald Amateur AH exists for the same reason any amateur writing does. Partly because people just like to write in a relatively...

By Gary Oswald On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...

By Gary Oswald Brian Michael Bendis is an American Comic Writer who has written and drawn numerous comic books over the last 30 years. He...

By Gary Oswald The coastal people of modern day Liberia and Sierra Leone, especially those who spoke one of the Kru languages, had done...

By Gary Oswald Prior to the 19th Century, white people were rare in Africa. Residents in the big slaving ports would be used to white...

By Gary Oswald It is estimated that in the 1780s less than a quarter of the human world was what we would consider free. The rest were...

By Gary Oswald This series of articles normally looks at countries, here we're going to focus instead on two individuals, one who lived...

By Gary Oswald Wars inevitably lead to exiles. When the Haitian Revolution saw the Black Slaves of Hispaniola take control of that...

By Gary Oswald Advertising a book or movie can be a tricky thing. A good narrative often relies on surprise, on making the audience think...

By Gary Oswald Amateur online Alternate History fiction and fanfiction have a lot in common. They’re both the products of communities of...

By Gary Oswald ‘I have rejected the abundant wealth the colonizers were willing to offer me. By abandoning my religion for the...

By Gary Oswald Abdallahi Ibn-Mohammed Al-Khalifa more than anyone else could be said to have created the Mahdist revolt. He had been born...

By Gary Oswald There is a tendency by students of history to place greater emphasis on motives that make sense within your own worldview....

By Gary Oswald This article, the first of three about the Sudanese wars, is about Egypt during the scramble of Africa when it was still...

By Gary Oswald The sad truth is I’m not actually that big a fan of professionally written alternate history books. I’m not one of those...

By Gary Oswald At the beginning of the 19th century, the coast of Africa was well known, but the interior was still a mystery. Maps...

By Gary Oswald In 1868, the British Army invaded Ethiopia in order to free hostages that had been taken by Emperor Tewodros II to force...

By Gary Oswald The exact time Madagascar was first settled by humans is still disputed but most accounts date it to sometime between 200...

By Gary Oswald There were eight European Empires involved in the Scramble. Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and...