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By Gary Oswald. The statue of Kimpa Vita, founder of Antonianism, in Angola. Picture courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The Kingdom of Kongo was one of the largest and most powerful pre-colonial states in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its capital was in modern Angola and it dominated the mouth of the Congo river from the 14th to 18th centuries. When, in 1482, Diogo Cão of Portugal first reached that river, he recognised Kongo as ‘the greatest African Kingdom’ of that time period and made i

By Gary Oswald. Fidel Castro, photographed with fellow rebel leader Camilo Cienfuegos (left), as he enters Havana on the 9th January...

By Gary Oswald. WOS Wrestling logo, though cropped from an STV ad rather than an ITV one! Few fandoms have embraced the ‘what if’...

By Gary Oswald. A promotional image of the event; from the DHM website, copyright DWM & David von Becker. From December 2022 to January...

By D.G. Valdron Dale Cozort Jared Kavanagh Jeff Provine Edited by Gary Oswald. And if you want to read a story about this topic... This...

By D.G. Valdron Dale Cozort Jared Kavanagh Jeff Provine Edited by Gary Oswald. Domesticated bears! You know you want one. (Art by...

By Gary Oswald. The Civil Service F.C. team in 1893. A founding member of the Football Association, formed (as it said) out of...

Cover courtesy Internet Archive Aaron Burr is not the most famous of the first generation of statesmen in the USA, but he is one of the...

By Gary Oswald. The flag of Trinidad and Tobago, image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. The history of most of the formerly British-ruled...

By Gary Oswald. Nought waiter Callum serves the wealthy cross elite, in the TV adaptation of Malory Blackman's Noughts & Crosses. (The...

Review by Gary Oswald Picture courtesy Amazon Murder on the Titania is a collection of five short stories all starring the same...

By Gary Oswald. A statue of Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi in Mogadishu, picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. The Adal Sultanate was a Muslim Somali Sultanate based around modern Somalia and the Ogaden or Somali region of modern-day Ethiopia. It is normally considered to have existed from 1415 to 1577, though there is an argument to be made that there was political continuity with both its predecessor and successor states. For the vast majority of that time, Adal was at war with t

By Gary Oswald Philip K Dick is, in my humble opinion, possibly the greatest writer of speculative fiction short stories to have ever...

By Gary Oswald. The flag of the Dominican Republic; picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. This is the sixth article in this series and the...

Review by Gary Oswald. The cover for the collected first half of Lone Star Reloaded. Cover courtesy Amazon. Quantum Leap has a lot to...

By Gary Oswald Flag of Guyana As discussed in a previous article , the British Empire in 1807 abolished the slave trade and stopped...

By Gary Oswald, Ishan Sharma and Lilith Roberts One of the most common forms of microfiction you find on AH forums is the wikibox, an...

By Gary Oswald, Mark Tentarelli, Bob Mumby and Charles EP Murphy Sea Lion Press has always had the aim of providing a platform for...

By Gary Oswald Unlike many of its neighbours, the Commonwealth of Dominica was granted independence as a republic, with a President...

By Gary Oswald There is nothing particularly unusual about the history of Grenada. It had been conquered by Europeans in the 17th...