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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...

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...