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By Gary Oswald This series will cover 26 topics related to Alternate History, as a beginners guide to the genre, through the format of...

By Gary Oswald The Shona people, the largest ethnicity in modern day Zimbabwe, have a much longer history of strong centralised Empires...

By Gary Oswald This series will cover 26 topics related to Alternate History, as a beginners guide to the genre, through the format of...

By Gary Oswald The Machine Gun more than anything else is the iconic weapon of the Scramble for Africa, the thing that made European...

By Gary Oswald The fate of the Senussi family is heavily entwined with the modern history of Libya, they were the royal family of the...

By Gary Oswald African forces defeated European forces all the time during the Scramble. It was not remotely uncommon for Imperial...

By Alexander Wallace, Gary Oswald, Matthew Kresal, Colin Salt and Mark Ciccone Salt: Plausibility. That word has spawned a million...

By Gary Oswald Of the European countries to still have territory in Africa by 1914, Spain controlled the least land. Her African Empire...

By Gary Oswald The answer is, of course, all of them. But if you are the mood for something in particular then follow this handy guide by...

By Gary Oswald The precolonial history of sub-Saharan Africa is not particularly well taught or widely known in the West, for a bunch of...

By Gary Oswald Sea Lion Press has published a lot of books (132 currently available) and it can be intimidating for a new reader who has...

By Gary Oswald The Great Trek of white settlers away from the British Cape Colony to their own Republics in the interior has been...

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...