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    Africa During the Scramble: Guns of the Sotho
    • Jun 9
    • 10 min

    Africa During the Scramble: Guns of the Sotho

    By Gary Oswald Henry Bartle Frere was recalled to London in August 1880 by the new Gladstone ministry to answer for having launched an...
    Africa During the Scramble: The Spider in the Web
    • May 25
    • 11 min

    Africa During the Scramble: The Spider in the Web

    By Gary Oswald British Policy towards Southern Africa was always somewhat hot and cold, depending on who was in Power in London, in terms...
    Africa During the Scramble: The Worst Mistake in Human History
    • May 16
    • 10 min

    Africa During the Scramble: The Worst Mistake in Human History

    By Gary Oswald In 1856, the Xhosa people of the Western and Eastern Cape provinces of modern South Africa committed possibly the single...
    Africa During the Scramble: The Kat River Experiment
    • May 11
    • 14 min

    Africa During the Scramble: The Kat River Experiment

    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...
    Africa During the Scramble: Four Months in Berlin
    • Apr 27
    • 15 min

    Africa During the Scramble: Four Months in Berlin

    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...
    Africa During the Scramble: The Years without Food
    • Apr 20
    • 9 min

    Africa During the Scramble: The Years without Food

    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...
    Review: Everfair
    • Apr 18
    • 3 min

    Review: Everfair

    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...
    Africa During the Scramble: A French India
    • Apr 13
    • 13 min

    Africa During the Scramble: A French India

    By Gary Oswald In 1914, Blaise Diagne became the first entirely ethnically black African to be elected to a European parliament when he...
    Africa During the Scramble: The Reality behind 'The Woman King'
    • Apr 6
    • 13 min

    Africa During the Scramble: The Reality behind 'The Woman King'

    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...
    Africa During the Scramble: The Black Napoleon
    • Mar 31
    • 19 min

    Africa During the Scramble: The Black Napoleon

    By Gary Oswald The African Polities of the late 19th century threw up more than their fair share of brilliant military leaders and...
    Can you write an historical story ignoring War?
    • Mar 17
    • 7 min

    Can you write an historical story ignoring War?

    By Gary Oswald It’s not exactly insightful to say that Historical Fiction, Alternate History included, is obsessed with war, and there...
    Africa During the Scramble: The not so Free Towns
    • Mar 2
    • 10 min

    Africa During the Scramble: The not so Free Towns

    By Gary Oswald As previously discussed, Sierra Leone began as a utopian private project wherein the black poor of Europe and North...
    Alternate History as a Political Tract
    • Dec 31, 2021
    • 8 min

    Alternate History as a Political Tract

    By Gary Oswald Politics is innately concerned with Alternate History. When your party wins an election and then you have to go back four...
    The Hour of the Wolfe
    • Sep 6, 2021
    • 4 min

    The Hour of the Wolfe

    By Gary Oswald On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
    'Axis of Andes' review
    • Jul 16, 2021
    • 5 min

    'Axis of Andes' review

    By Gary Oswald Amateur AH exists for the same reason any amateur writing does. Partly because people just like to write in a relatively...
    Man’s Holy Cause
    • Feb 20, 2021
    • 9 min

    Man’s Holy Cause

    By Gary Oswald On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
    Prequel Problems: Brian Michael Bendis' Shared World Adventures
    • Feb 15, 2021
    • 8 min

    Prequel Problems: Brian Michael Bendis' Shared World Adventures

    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...
    Africa During the Scramble: The Settler's Republic
    • Jan 29, 2021
    • 19 min

    Africa During the Scramble: The Settler's Republic

    By Gary Oswald The coastal people of modern day Liberia and Sierra Leone, especially those who spoke one of the Kru languages, had done...
    Africa During the Scramble: Prodigal Sons
    • Jan 23, 2021
    • 17 min

    Africa During the Scramble: Prodigal Sons

    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...
    Africa During the Scramble: The Blockade
    • Jan 15, 2021
    • 16 min

    Africa During the Scramble: The Blockade

    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...
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