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By Gary Oswald The sad truth is I’m not actually that big a fan of professionally written alternate history books. I’m not one of those...

By Gary Oswald At the beginning of the 19th century, the coast of Africa was well known, but the interior was still a mystery. Maps...

By Gary Oswald In 1868, the British Army invaded Ethiopia in order to free hostages that had been taken by Emperor Tewodros II to force...

By Gary Oswald The exact time Madagascar was first settled by humans is still disputed but most accounts date it to sometime between 200...

By Gary Oswald There were eight European Empires involved in the Scramble. Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and...

By Gary Oswald Historical Romances, like all stories set in the past, have a variable level of historical accuracy. Some authors clearly...

By Gary Oswald Leopold’s aim for his colony in Africa was to make money. His efforts in portraying himself as a humanitarian were always...

By Gary Oswald The history of Slavery in Africa is one going back thousands of years. In this it's much the same as every other...

By Gary Oswald Ideas are cheap. Most people can come up with a thousand concepts for books. The skill is in the execution. In bringing...

By Gary Oswald Warning: This is an article about a Genocide and will be tough reading. As discussed at the end of the last article, the...

By Gary Oswald Sea Lion Press is built around producing Alternative or Alternate History content and implicit in that goal is the...

By Gary Oswald The residents of the area that is currently the country of Namibia arrived there in a series of different migrations. The...

By Gary Oswald In 1951, the word to indicate Z in the phonetic alphabet for radio communication was changed from Zebra to the more...

By Gary Oswald Looking at a political Map of Africa in 1870 what is perhaps most striking is how little European control there is....

By Gary Oswald In 1820, in the aftermath of King Henry’s suicide, troops from the Southern Republic of Haiti invaded the Northern Kingdom...

By Gary Oswald The men who would later become Emperor Dessalines, King Henry and President Pétion had all been loyal soldiers of France...

By Gary Oswald The goal of the original slave uprising in Haiti was simply that they didn’t want to be slaves anymore. These were people...

By Gary Oswald In August 1791 a number of plantation slaves met in the woods of Bois Caïman in North Haiti. That meeting was the starting...

By Gary Oswald On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write vignettes on a...

By Gary Oswald ​ 1578 - The Portuguese Empire was one of the first and most powerful Global Empires. It ruled land in South America, West...