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By Gary Oswald Henry Bartle Frere was recalled to London in August 1880 by the new Gladstone ministry to answer for having launched an...

By Gary Oswald British Policy towards Southern Africa was always somewhat hot and cold, depending on who was in Power in London, in terms...

By Gary Oswald In 1856, the Xhosa people of the Western and Eastern Cape provinces of modern South Africa committed possibly the single...

By Gary Oswald One of the most shocking things about the Scramble of Africa was its speed. In less than 40 years, Africa went from mostly...

By Gary Oswald The Berlin Conference of 1884-85 is probably the best known and most taught moment of the Scramble of Africa. It was a...

By Gary Oswald Between 1500 and 1820, Africa’s population declined relative to that of the rest of the world due a combination of booming...

By Gary Oswald Everfair by Nisi Shawl, is a book that I knew I had to buy as soon as I saw the concept. Which is 'what if the Congo Free...

By Gary Oswald In 1914, Blaise Diagne became the first entirely ethnically black African to be elected to a European parliament when he...

By Gary Oswald The first articles I ever wrote for this site were a three part series looking at the Kingdom of Dahomey in modern day...

By Gary Oswald The African Polities of the late 19th century threw up more than their fair share of brilliant military leaders and...

By Gary Oswald It’s not exactly insightful to say that Historical Fiction, Alternate History included, is obsessed with war, and there...

By Gary Oswald As previously discussed, Sierra Leone began as a utopian private project wherein the black poor of Europe and North...

By Gary Oswald Politics is innately concerned with Alternate History. When your party wins an election and then you have to go back four...

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...