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Here‘s a list of all the books with queer protagonists I’ve read this year. While I do actively seek those out, there are several books on here that I didn’t know had queer themes when I picked them up from the library and then I was pleasantly surprised by lesbians. I‘ll avoid spoilers except when discussing trigger warnings.

Kaleidoscope Song by Fox Benwell

Neo, a South African teenager, is obsessed with music of any kind. Her love of music brings her together with the singer of a local band and they have a passionate relationship that they must keep secret. The descriptions of Neo‘s life and her tendency to hear music in everything are beautiful and dynamic. The author included a list of the songs Neo is listening to throughout the book, so I was introduced to a lot of cool music from South Africa and other places. TW: Corrective rape and Bury Your Gays. This is a book by a queer (albeit white British, rather than black South African) author writing about a very real problem that exists within our communities, so it feels different to when a cishet author kills off a queer character just for shock value. I still can‘t help feeling that he could have made the same point without having the character die – just have her be injured. Still, I loved pretty much everything else about the book, so it gets a tentative recommendation from me.

The Mermaid’s Daughter by Ann Claycomb

25-year-old opera student Kathleen tries to cope with the constant pain in her feet, nightmares about having her tongue cut out, and desperate yearning for the sea. With the help of her girlfriend Harry she delves into her family history to uncover the secret of a curse spanning generations of women. What’s nice about this book is that Kathleen and Harry’s relationship is accepted by all their family and friends without question, so if you want to read a nice wlw fantasy story with no homophobia, this one’s for you. TW: Some discussion of suicide, but nothing too graphic.

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

A teenage lesbian is sent to conversion therapy by her religious aunt. This is basically a coming-of-age story as the title character comes to terms with her identity and the death of her parents. It’s considered an important work of LGBT YA literature, so I really wanted to like it more than I did. Most of the first half of the novel deals with Cameron’s everyday life in her small town in Montana, which was, to be honest, rather boring to me. The pace of the story picks up a bit once she gets sent to conversion therapy, but even then it’s slower and less eventful than I would have liked. But since it is a popular book, that’s probably just me. I did like that the two best friends she makes at the therapy camp are a disabled girl and an indigenous boy, two types of people that are not often represented in queer fiction, so that’s something. TW: Conversion therapy and self-harm.

Proud by Juno Dawson

This is a collection of poems and stories about queerness aimed at a YA audience, and each one is a pure delight! These stories detail moments of joy and pride that make you feel happy and hopeful about being queer. They include a high school retelling of Pride and Prejudice with lesbians, a nonbinary kid and his D&D group on a quest to disrupt the gender binary at their school, a magical phoenix leading a Chinese girl to find love, and gay penguins. All stories, poems and illustrations are by queer writers and artists. Seriously, I cannot recommend this collection enough!

Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moïra Fowley-Doyle

An Irish magical realist story about three girls who perform a spell to find things that they have lost. The spell appears to have wider consequences than they expected, bringing to light things that should have stayed lost. This book has three narrators, two of whom are wlw. It treads a nice line between fantasy and reality, and has some pretty good plot twists. Also, there’s a crossword at the end, which is awesome. More books should come with crosswords.

Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword and Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie

A space opera trilogy set in the distant future about the embodiment of a ship’s AI who seeks revenge against the ruler of a colonialist empire who destroyed her ship and killed her beloved captain. This is not beginner’s sci-fi, as it is very complex and intricate, but if you’re fine with a bit of a heavier read, you’ll be rewarded with some very interesting concepts. What makes this series queer is that the Raadch empire has no concept of gender and uses female pronouns for everyone. This makes every romantic relationship queer by default, whether we are aware of the characters’ sexes or not. I found it particularly enjoyable when Breq, the protagonist, tried to communicate in different languages that have gendered pronouns, which she had to navigate carefully in order not to offend people. She tries to look for outward clues of gender, such as hairstyles, chest size, facial hair or Adam’s apples, but even then often gets it wrong, because these things are not always consistent. That is just a great depiction of how arbitrary ideas of binary sexual characteristics tend to be. Also, I guess technically Breq is aroace, but since she’s not human, I’m not sure if she can be considered the best representation, though she is a very likeable character that I enjoyed following.

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue and The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee

These books are a lot of fun! They’re historical adventure stories with a bit of fantasy thrown in, featuring disaster bisexual Henry Montague, his snarky aroace sister Felicity and his best friend Percy whom he is secretly in love with. In the first book, the three teenagers are sent on a tour of Europe for various reasons, but they quickly abandon the planned route when they get embroiled in a plot involving theft and alchemy. The second book details Felicity’s further attempts to become a doctor, which leads her to reunite with an old friend and chase a tale of fantastical creatures.

The Spy with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke

Technically I read this one late last year, but whatever. I just wanted to put it on the list to have an excuse to talk about it. It’s about two Jewish siblings with magic powers who are recruited during World War II to take part in a secret project to fight the Nazis. Both siblings turn out to be queer: the brother is gay and demisexual, while the sister is bisexual, and they each have a love interest. This book is an independent prequel to The Girl with the Red Balloon, which takes place in East Berlin during the time of the Wall, and is just as good, albeit not as gay.

We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia

This book tends to be classified as fantasy, because it takes place in an alternate, Latin-American-inspired world, with a distinct history, culture and religion, but there’s no magic at all, so I’m not sure it counts. But I digress. The country of Medio is built on classism and acute xenophobia. But by hiding her status as an illegal immigrant, Daniela, a girl from a poor background, manages to rise to the top of her class at her elite finishing school and become the first wife of one of the most powerful young men in the country. But her new comfortable status is threatened when she is pressured to join a group of rebels who fight for equality. At the same time, she also finds herself falling for her husband’s second wife. Obviously, this book’s political message is very topical, but beyond that, it’s just a very good story, with a well fleshed-out fictional world and great characters. This is the first in a series, with the sequel, We Unleash the Merciless Storm, coming out in February.

All Out: The No Longer Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages by Saundra Mitchell

A very nice collection of short stories about various queer teenagers in different historical settings, from a medieval monastery to an American suburb on New Year’s Eve in 1999. Most of the stories are realist, but there are a few ghosts and witches to be found in-between. What I found particularly notable about this book is that it featured several asexual characters, which you don’t often see in collections like this. I definitely recommend it.

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

This is a thoughtful, heart-warming life story about a woman growing up during the civil war in Nigeria. After Ijeoma, a Christian Igbo girl, is sent away from home, she finds her first love in Amina, a Muslim Hausa. Even after they are found out and separated, Ijeoma doesn’t quite understand what’s so shameful about their love. Still, as she grows older, she attempts to fit into a heteronormative society while also connecting with the things and people that make her happy. TW: Homophobic violence, including an attack on a gay nightclub. The novel makes up for this by having a remarkably happy ending.

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

A young man in Victorian London finds a mysterious watch on his pillow, with no idea how it got there. This sets into motion a strange series of events, which leads him to a lonely Japanese watchmaker, to whom he finds himself increasingly drawn. This is an unusual novel that treads the line between historical fiction, fantasy and sci-fi. Most of the characters are morally grey and have complex motivations, but are still likable. I just really enjoy stories that take place in this time period, particularly when they are this thoughtfully written and don’t just take the prejudices of the past for granted.

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

A YA book about a transgender teenager, written by a transgender author. After her mother decides that she is not safe in her hometown anymore, high school senior Amanda moves in with her dad in a town where nobody knows her and she can try to go stealth. But even as she is making friends and experiencing romance for the first time, she constantly worries about what will happen if her secret comes out. It’s a fairly standard story about being transgender, really, but as it comes from a trans author, it feels a lot more personal and less voyeuristic than these stories tend to be when coming from a cisgender perspective. Amanda is a sympathetic and compelling character. TW: This book deals with a number of upsetting themes, including transphobic violence, being forcibly outed and suicide. There is a flashback to Amanda’s pre-transition suicide attempt, which I found particularly triggering. I also wish she could have come out on her own terms, instead of being outed in front of the whole school by someone she thought she could trust. It is still a pretty good book, but it can be very upsetting at times.

As I Descended by Robin Talley

A loose retelling of Macbeth that takes place in a boarding school in Virginia and involves two queer couples. The supernatural elements of the play are amplified in a wonderfully creepy way, and the characters are complex and realistic, so you understand their motivations, even when they do bad things. TW: Out of the five queer characters in the novel, three die, two of them by suicide.

A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss and EG Keller

A charming picture book about the Vice President’s pet bunny who falls in love with another boy bunny and wants to hop around at his side for the rest of his life. This book was written as a screw you to Mike Pence, but even so it is a genuinely nice kid’s book that deals with homosexuality and marriage equality in a way that is appropriate for young children. The illustrations are incredibly cute as well.

Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente

A very strange, surreal tale about four people (most of whom are queer in some way) exploring a magical city that you can enter in your dreams by sleeping with someone who has been there before. I wanted to like this one more than I did, because I really love Catherynne Valente’s Fairyland books for children. But while some of the dreamlike imagery is cool and pretty, I found a lot of it weirdly uncomfortable, along with the frequent sex scenes.

The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein

15-year-old Julia is home for the summer at her parents’ ancestral mansion in Scotland and gets involved with a plot about theft, disappearance and possibly murder. She also has her first crushes – on a man working at her parents’ estate and a young Traveller girl, respectively. This is a prequel to Code Name Verity, which has the same protagonist, though her bisexuality isn’t really alluded to in that, which is why I’ve kept it off the list, even though it is an excellent book. The Pearl Thief is pretty good as well, though it is a bit strange to read after you’ve already read Verity and know that this carefree teenage character is going to grow up to be a spy in World War II and be tortured in a Nazi prison. Do read both books, though. They are great.

Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson

A young scientist falls in love with the wife of the man she’s having an affair with. There’s speculation about quantum mechanics and interconnectedness, all wrapped in very poetic language. To be perfectly honest, I really didn’t get it, so I have no idea what any of it means. But at least the main character is bisexual and polyamorous (and possibly genderfluid – I’m not sure).

Queer Africa by Makhosazana Xaba and Karen Martin

A collection of short stories by queer African writers, discussing themes like love, sex, marriage, family and homophobia. The attitudes towards queerness in these different countries varies. In many of them, homosexuality is illegal, even though same-sex relationships used to be respected before the interference of Western colonialism. In any case, these stories are an interesting and oftentimes beautiful examination of queerness from a non-Western point of view, some joyous and some tragic. TW: The second to last story is about incest.

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Hausa sword, Nigeria, 19th century.

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t’challa classifies under enhanced human, as he has the aid of heart-shaped herbs to provide him with heightened strengths, speed, agility, and senses — also known as divine empowerment. his powers include the following, but not limited to these, and it will be added along the timeline of his developments, but they’re mostly taken from his canon as well as personal observations:

genius intelligence: he was born as an intellectual, with his iq fluctuating between 150 and 160 depending on the tests taken, although he barely measures it using that algorithm. he is blessed with near eidetic memory, and has been absorbing different types of knowledge since he was young, being a part of the royal family that could provide him with the best educations in the world. while he seemed to further his education in the united states under african studies, he masters in various level of science, including physics, chemistry, and biology to aid him in understanding himself and those around him, plus his opponents.

enhanced strength: t’challa’s strength is enhanced to the point of superhuman level thanks to the herb, and he can lift up to 800lbs according to what’s known. he might or might not be able to sustain more than that as it’s not been proven yet. his strength is way beyond normal humans’, enabling him to perform on-par with various mutated and mutants. his legs can support him to jump up to 10 feet off the ground as well.

enhanced speed: he can attack people before they see his moves, and is able to run on par with captain america’s enhanced speed on super soldier serum. having the ability to assault his opponents faster than the eyes can follow, he’s often disabling them prior to any contact made towards him.

enhanced stamina: he has the ability to hold his endurance for approximately 6 hours before being fatigued by excessive activities or fights. he also can perform arduous and heavy tasks at least three times longer than those athletes trained in their expertise. he also has enhanced lung capacity, allowing him to hold his breath for approximately 6 minutes.

enhanced durability: the skin, muscle, and bones are augmented in density and strength, enabling him to sustain more damage than normal humans would.

enhanced agility and reflexes: having a feline-like type of balance, he has the dexterity that enables him to perform a multitude of stunts. he’s also faster at responding to triggers, allowing him to react faster to threats than trained athletes can.

heightened senses: he has enhanced smelling sense, which is useful to detect pheromones. he can distinguish the smell of fear in a person, which is proven beneficial in so many instances. some of his other senses, such as sight, are more than heightened, but his smelling senses can only be as precise as noticing body odor to detect lies. his tasting buds are also enhanced to the point where he can taste the ingredients of the food he consumes.

superhuman acute senses: he’s equipped with heightened senses to the point where he can see from a great distance. he can also see well in the dark, adapting very quickly to his surroundings. he can detect infrared and ultraviolet as well, although in a lesser extent compared to mutant counterparts that are blessed with this kind of power.

accelerated healing factor: he also has his healing factor added to his body, creating a faster response for his body to repair itself in time of needs. also has the ability to digest faster, alcoholic drinks typically do not affect him much due to the rapid acceleration of his metabolism. he heals at approximately two to three times faster than normal humans, depending on the severity of the wound.

being a polyglot: since young, he’s been trained to communicate in various languages apart from having english and xhosa as the main languages used in his country. besides those, he can also speak german, russian, french, portuguese, spanish, swahili, amrahic, yoruba, oromo, zulu, hausa, igbo, mandarin, japanese, korean, and indonesian. some of these languages he can read and write as well, but he’s mostly good at its verbal levels.

immunity to magic: the herb is given by panther goddess bast, who grants the user of magical immunity. he will not be affected by curses, mantras, and potions made by shamans; all magic known to humans is not effective towards him, including voodoo.

mastery in hunting: he’s able to track, hunt, and find his opponents by the aid of his senses, as well as instinctual will.

mastery in the majority of global martial arts: as he was trained in various languages, he was also established in the use of plethora of martial arts, especially the ones commonly used in the world, such as capoeira, karate, taekwondo, judo, tahtib, jet kune do, jiu jitsu, kenpo, muay thai, krav maga, aikido, kendo, ninjutsu, boxing. he’s able to fuse and merge the aforementioned martial arts to fit his needs.

enhanced marksmanship: he also trained in the use of different weapons, but in terms of projectiles, guns, and throwing knives, he can throw them with a deadly precision from a very long range. it’s also going side by side with his heightened senses.

mastery in parkour: as well as enhanced balance assisted by the herb. he trained in parkour during his studies in the united states, taking it as a leisure activity that’s proven useful when he’s combining it with his other abilities. this mastery leads him to enhanced acrobatic abilities.

preferred weapons during his younger days include knives, pistols, as well as bike chains which are fairly clandestine in terms of appearance. during his studies slash vigilantism days in the united states, he used bike chains to beat people up frequently, striking up close. if it’s far-ranged, he would opt small knives that could be thrown. full extents of weaponry in his arsenal keep expanding given shuri’s developments when it comes to the panther habits. as a child, however, besides fighting using his body ( and mainly his hands, getting accustomed to using his nails as claws even prior to his being the black panther ), he also was trained in using various weapons native to the african continent, as well as others. he wields spears well, as well as swords. traditional asian, european, and american weapons as commonly found in the world are also within his forte. he can also utilize and exploit objects in his favor when needed; he can transform a pen or a card into an offensive object, making him very versatile when it comes to fights, with or without weapons.

being a king also provides him with diplomatic immunity, alongside other perks, such as having connection. also having a net worth of a trillionaire, he’s a well-rounded warrior that can use many devices to play into his advantages.

#𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝙲𝙰𝙽 𝙱𝚁𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙰 𝙱𝚄𝙻𝙻𝙴𝚃. — hcs.

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Takouba Sword

Takouba Sword is the sword that is used across the western Sahel and among ethnic groups such as the Tuareg, the Hausa, and the Fulani. It was a sword seen on most of the nobility of the Sahel region spanning various cultures and tribes.

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Uproar over Ondo quit notice to criminal herders

Akeredolu, in an interactive meeting with the leadership of the Hausa/Fulani and Ebira Communities in Ondo State.The Governor, who is the Chairman of the Southwest Governors’ Forum said Kidnappers Should Expect Fire For Fire Across the Southwest.Crossed swords. Photo; TWITTER/ONDOFIRSTBORN • Akeredolu replies, says President’s emotions threatening national unity • Afenifere accuses Buhari of…

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Game of Thrones Finale Review

By MA Iliasu (Kano State, Nigeria)

Season Finale; Game of Thrones. Episode Finale; The Iron Throne.

A wise man once said: “There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. No enemy can defeat it. It unites people better than Armies, Gold and Flags ever can.” That wise man is no one but Tyrion of house Lannister, the imp, the daemon monkey, the pisser over the edge of the wall and the almighty hand of the king – the wise man with the sharpest tongue in Westeros. The perfect proof of Lord Tyrion’s submission is how George RR Martin, an American storywriter unites over one billion world population with the greatest story ever written, ever told and turned into motion picture in man’s living memory – the Game of Thrones.

White or Black, Asian, European, Caribbean or African, Arabic, English, Latino, French, Spanish, Hindi, Chinese, Swahili, Hausa or Yoruba, underage, ageing or aged; one seventh of the world population, and everyone is a Game of Thrones fan. And by fan, I mean the kind of fanatic level of fanboyhood. What makes Lord Tyrion’s submission even more unbelievable is the fact that its author is authored by the man we’re just trying to prove writes the greatest story ever told – with the stuff someone said in his own stuff. Wow! This is levels ahead of human beings comprehensible ability.

David Benioff and D. B Weiss also mustn’t be left behind, their infamous application of logic has wrapped up the story which its fluidity has the potential to flow until the last day, at an intensive, competent and adventurous pace. The episode finale has rationalized and solved many of the puzzles that have been in place since the inception of the show, from episode one – “Winter is Coming”, to episode last – “The Iron Throne”, in the most efficient, rational, logical and idealistic way possible. Justice is served to all; the sword is swinged by him who serves the sentence, and to him whose sentence was served, the nothingness in the truth of him who said I’m the king has been proved, the slaps of honour have been worn in both silence and noise, the status quo is disrupted against all the odds, and the real power is proved just as the script is written; the greatest of all powers is knowledge just as bit much as the inevitability of change is the biggest truth.

The talking points:

1. Don’t bury your head under the sand of delusion, not everything comes through inheritance, the biggest determinant of materiality is fate, and one must accept what it throws at him, no matter why, when and how. It’s just up to one to be ready before or when it arrives. The rightful-ness of everything lies in its righteousness, and for things to function in desired way, that which is rightful must be that which is righteous.

After all the political brouhaha amongst the prominent houses, the determination and the claims of bloodline lineages, and all the explanations and predictions; the person that gets to rule is a crippled son of Ned Stark who couldn’t lift his arm right to fire an arrow. Who would’ve thought? The boy, who was named after his uncle Bran, who was also named after Bran the Builder travelled north of the wall to find the missing tape in the cassette of his fate. Robb Stark once said to Lord Manderly: “If Bran can’t be lord of Winterfell before me, Renly can’t be king before Stannis” and I wish he was alive to see Bran as the king of Andals right in the sight of rightful heirs, and there’s nothing anyone of them can do about it. Isn’t that a great lesson? Ladies and gentlemen, please to Brandon the Broken, the first of his name, the king of the Andals and the first men, the lord of the seven kingdoms and protector of the realm. Long may he reign!

2. No one should eat his cake and still have it. No one should pass the sentence and refuse to swing the sword. No one should take a debt and refuse to pay. What all this is trying to prove is that people must take their words seriously if world is to be any liveable environment for the living.

Daenerys Targaryen made promise of mercy, but fulfilled it with a wrath. She’s taken a debt of betterment, but paid it with aggravation. No one should get away with that. Jon Snow on the other hand has been a consistent soldier of mercy, truth, honour and honesty. He’s the personification of that proverb: “Truth is worth more than a pound.” The two lovers are complete opposite of each other, but still have so much affection for each other in a “love is blind” kind of way. Their characters define the ideals of human coexistence; take your word serious and be remembered as the greatest, but take it as a joke and be remembered as the worst.

3. Jon Snow as bigger name than Aegon the Conqueror, and Brandon the Builder in history of Westeros would be a very fair argument. Within his short life he had been a bastard, a steward, Lord Commander, a prisoner, wildlings saviour, King in the North, rightful heir to the iron throne and saviour of the realm. In all of the mentioned, he has been the greatest that has ever bear the title. No man has served the realm closer to how much Jon did. He died and came back. He’s stupid, clueless and indecisive, but which honourable, honest and brave man is not? He has the blessings of prince Rhaegar, Ned Stark, Lord Commander Mormont, Aemon Targaryen, Mance Rayder, Stannis Baratheon and Cersei Lannister. And for everyone who is against him being sent back to the wall, remember, there has to be a Stark and a Targaryen every time in Black, and a man who is good at commanding, and very dear to the Wildlings, Jon meets that criteria, in fact, he’s the only one that meets that criteria. Jeor Mormont did give him the long claw for a reason. And Maester Aemon defined love to him for a reason. Ghost agreed to follow Tormund to the wall for a reason. Edd Tollett refused the Lord Commander post for a reason. It’s for Jon to guard the realm till eternity, and it’s fair to say the realm is safe till eternity. The greatest man that ever lived in Westeros. He indeed knows nothing, but who else knows something?

4. The new small council is just a testimony of the past great councilors. Lord Tywin’s blood must always be there to be hand of the king, because no one had ever been better at it. Tyrion was sent by his father to serve in his place for a reason. Bronn of Blackwater has the cunning of Petyr Baelish, and even bigger love for gold. He also knows what it takes to convert an empty bag into bag full of gold. Samwell Tarly has learnt a great deal from Maester Aemon, and from Maesters in the citadel. He’ll make a better Maester than Pycelle. Davos Seaworth is an experienced smuggler who survived every single battle without a shred of combat ability. No one is better at brokering a deal, he’ll be of great service as the master of the ships. Brienne of Tarth as Lord Commander of Kingsguard would allow Jaime to sleep peacefully in his grave. With the only vacant post remaining is Master of Whisperers. But who in this life or another do you think could resemble Varys, let alone replicate his job? RIP Lord Varys, may the soul of Dany rot in hell for taking you away from us.

5. Yuval Noah Harari is apt; “Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.” When – Lord Commander Mormont forbade Samwell Tarly to die, Mance Rayder died while being burned alive for refusing to kneel, Craster marrying his daughters to himself, The hound threatening soldiers to rape their corpses if they run, Stannis Baratheon admitting to murder while being helpless, Robin Arryn sucking his mother’s breast while been at the age Brandon Stark was ruling Winterfell in place of Robb, and Edd Tollett saying his mother farted while dying that the whole bed shook, I thought I heard it all. I thought I’ve seen it all. Then boom!!! Lord Edmure Tully stood right there in front of lords with hope for them to endorse him as the king of six kingdoms. Wow! I think this is the greatest insult an entity has ever suffered, and I was there asking God to offer me a chance to give Edmure the greatest flogging he has ever received. What a dunce! And he truly meant it.

6. The north is finally a recognised independent dominion. North has always been an arena for extraordinary stubbornness. They worship old Gods in trees instead of fire and new, stay in snowflakes through the winter and bowed only to the dragons. The fury of northern lord matches the fire of a dragon. Greatjon Umber couldn’t agree for Lord Glover to lead northern banners until he got his fingers eaten by a dire wolf. Lord Karstark murdered two Lannister boys because Lady Catelyn set Jaime free, which costed him his head and he didn’t regret. Lyanna Mormont killed a giant in such a young age, and once wrote a reply to Ramsay saying her house recognises no king but the king in the north whose name is Stark, and we all know Ramsey. These people shall never bend before anyone who is not a northerner, and they got one in Queen Sansa, a brilliant lady with experience, with a fine lineage and beautiful face. I am that northern soldier who bends when she was done getting crowned. Our Queen! Arya Stark on the other hand refused to be the Lady of Storm’s End, instead wants to see the boundary of Storm’s End. Cold little bitch, as the hound puts it. That girl can’t live in a world where there’s no people like Ned Stark, Sandor Clegane, Blackfish and Jaqen H’ghar. The hero of the realm!

In the end, there are some missing stuff in the season finale that needs to be accounted for such as: 1. How did they rebuild King’s Landing within days? 2. How did they rebuild the wall in such little period? 3. Samwell Tarly still has the bows of Night’s Watch, how did he become a Grand Maester with bows, when did they pardon him? 4. It has been seen when the Unsullied sailed to Naath, but what happened to the Dothraki, who knows where they go? 5. What happened to or where is Ellaria Sand and her daughter? Are they still rotting in the dungeons of King’s Landing? Did the girl die from Cersei’s poison, did Ellaria watch her rot? Is she alive or dead?

Rating: 4/5

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According to Greek accounts, the earliest Amazons came from Libya (then a name for most of North Africa). They wore red leather and carried crescent-shaped shields. It was these Libyan Amazons, they said, who later founded cities and temples in the Aegean and Anatolia.

At a much later period, the Amazons of Dahomey were crack all-female troops, all female, who also served as royal bodyguards. They were also priestesses and wore crescent moon crowns.

The Hausa had a number of warrior queens, notably Amina of Zau Zau. A woman named Bazao-Turunku led warriors and founded a town south of Zaria.

Nupe women warriors called Isadshi-Koseshi fought as fiercely as the men, opposing invasions of the Fulbe conquerers who raided the Nupe for cattles and slaves, especially women.

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Nyabinghi, the "hidden queen" fought to free Africans from English slavery and rule. Also called Queen Muhmusa or Tahtahme, she inspired the Nyabinghi underpinnings of Rastafarianism.

Nanny of the Maroons was born in Ghana, and folk history says that she came to Jamaica with the express purpose of becoming a high priestess and leader of her people, never having been a slave. She led the eastern Maroons based in Moreton, and forged an alliance with another group led by Cudjoe. (The name Maroons comes from the Spanish cimarron,meaning "gone back to the wild.")

The Jamaican Maroons were the first people to force the English to sign a treaty with their subjects, on March 1, 1738. The lands conceded in this treaty formed a base for the Maroon's independent survival. One of these communities was named Nannytown after the female Ghanaian leader. Maroon country was so feared by the English that it became known as the "Land of Look-Behind."

. AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN BEAT BACK SLAVECATCHERS

In the summer of 1848, eight or ten people made it across the Ohio river in their northward flight from slavery. The slave catchers tracked them into town, but the bounty they were after turned out to be elusive:

"The women began to gather from adjoining houses until the Amazons were about equal to the [slave-hunters]-- the former with shovels, tongs, washboards and rolling pins; the latter with revolvers, sword-canes and bowie-knives. Finally the beseigers decamped, leaving the Amazons in possession of the field, amid the jeers and loud huzzahs of the crowd."

--Report from The North Star, an African-American paper out of Cincinnati, August 11, 1848. (For more, see Dorothy Sterling's book Speak Out In Thunder Tones.)

GHANA

"If you the men of Ashanti will not go forward, then we will. We the women will. I shall call upon you my fellow women. We will fight the white men. We will fight until the last of us falls in the battlefield."

---Ya Asantewa, an Ashanti queen who led the resistence to British colonial rule in Ghana. She succeeded in the short run, but the Ashanti were heavily outgunned.

THE "WAR OF THE WOMEN"

The Aba rebellion in southeastern Nigeria grew out of a traditional female rite of the Ibo. People were outraged at the colonial government's plan to tax women, "the trees that bear fruit." In protest, Ibo women bound their heads with ferns, painted their faces with ash, put on loincloths and carried sacred sticks with palm frond wreaths. Thousands marched on the District Office, dancing, singing protests, and demanding the cap of office of the colonial chief Okugo. When he approached one woman to count her goats and sheep, she had retorted, "Was mother counted?"

This protest spread into a vast regional insurrection. The Ibo women's councils mobilized demonstrations in three provinces, turning out over 2,000,000 protesters. The British District Officer at Bende wrote, "The trouble spread in the 2nd week of December to Aba, an important trading center on the railway. Here there converged some 10,000 women, scantily clothed, girdled with green leaves, carrying sticks. Singing angry songs against the chiefs and the court messengers, the women proceeded to attack and loot the European trading shops, stores, and Barclay's Bank, and to break into the prison and release the prisoners."

Elsewhere women protestors burned down the hated British "Native Courts" and cut telegraph wires, throwing officials into panic. The colonials fired on the female protesters, killing more than fifty and wounding more. Marches continued sporadically into 1930. These mass actions became known as the Aba Rebellion of 1929, or The War of the Women. It was one of the most significant anti-colonial revolts in Africa of that day.

Diola women led similar protests against French attempts to exact a tribute from their rice harvest in Senegal, an event dramatized by filmmaker Ousmane Sembene.

If you want to know who I am I am daughter of Angola, of Kêto and Nagô I don't fear blows because I am a warrior Inside of samba I was born I raised myself, I transformed myself, and no one will lower my banner, O, O, O. I am a warrior woman daughter of Ogun and Yansâ

---Song from an album by Brazilian singer Clara Nuñes

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Azrael’s powers and abilities [UPDATED]

• Immortality - As an Archangel, Azrael possesses an unending lifespan. Her vessel does not age.

• Bioluminescence - When Azrael revs up her Light, it spills out over her vessel, first from her eyes, then through her skin.

• Mental Projection - Azrael is capable of projecting her consciousness into someone else’s mind. This ability is especially useful for communicating with people who are possessed by another entity, or communicating with people who are unconscious.

• Heightened Senses - Azrael’s visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, and olfactory senses are incredibly sensitive. This is why she frequently wears dark tinted sunglasses and steers clear of modern foods with too much sugar. Her senses are that way to give her an edge in battle. However, in the modern world, Azrael can become overwhelmed with so much input.

• Temperature Resistance - Azrael is easily able to withstand some pretty extreme temperatures, from about -1500 °C and + 1500 °C. However, in the event that she is badly injured, her Light, which is normally super hot and bright, will fade and its temperature will drop, leaving her susceptible to the cold.

• Enhanced Reflexes - Azrael’s average reaction time is a little more than five hundredths of a second (fifty-five milliseconds) - faster than a Lamborghini gear shift.

• Enhanced Strength - Azrael is strong enough to throw a 300lb man through a steel reinforced wall. She can also break a gun in half, punch through metal or solid rock etc.

• Enhanced Combat Skills - Warrior angels and Archangels possess superhuman hand-to-hand combat skills. Basically, you don’t want to get into a fight with Azrael, because she is probably at least four times faster and hits harder than a motherfucker.

• Expert Swordsmanship - Azrael has been wielding Vanquish for upwards of 300,000 years, so it goes without saying that she has both the skills and the experience handling a sword. This is an example of how Azrael uses a sword.

• Regenerative Healing (Limited) - Azrael can easily heal anything that was’nt dealt by white fire or empyrean steel. Wounds dealt by white fire and empyrean steel are difficult to heal, especially given the fact that Azrael has to rely on her own steam.

• Soul Detection - Azrael can tell whether you have a soul, and what sins you have committed. That’s partly how she can tell whether a person is a half-breed, because the soul of a half-breed is distinctly different from a mortal human soul.

• Heavenly (White) Fire Production - As an Archangel, Azrael can summon white fire to the blade of her sword, which remain burning until she extinguishes it.

• Memory Manipulation - Azrael can erase memories and manipulate them. It’s not something she uses often, but she can do it.

• Extrasensory Perception - Azrael can see and communicate with spirits lingering in both the astral and earthly realm. She also possesses Claircognizance, clairsentience, clairaudience and clairomancy.

• Telekinesis (Limited) - Like the other Archangels, Azrael is a very, very powerful telekinetic, even running on her own steam. At the height of her power, she could’ve easily raised the Titanic from the Atlantic ocean without experiencing any blowback. She could do the same now, but it would put significant strain on her and result in her running out of power entirely.

• Resurrection of dead mortals(Limited) - Azrael is more than capable of bringing a dead person back to life, even if that person’s body is desiccated and rotted. It takes some time and a lot of power, but she can do it. • Temporal Control (Limited) - Temporal control is how angels travel through time, though they usually only use it when ordered to do so. Azrael has only used temporal control once, and it knocked her out for several days because of her being disconnected from The Source. In that instance, Azrael divided her light into billions of fragments and spread them across the previous nine hundred years.

• Photokinesis (Limited) - Azrael can manipulate her Light to make images that look like holograms. Sometimes she uses her Light to show people what she looks like in her second form, sometimes her Light pulses in her hands and on her fingertips, sometimes she forms the a map of the cosmos around her

• Interdimensional Travel/Teleporting - Azrael uses this ability to get places quickly, to move around in battle, and to move between the earthly realm, the spirit world and the heavens. She can also shift between alternate dimensions in order to hide from her enemies.

• Atmokinesis - Azrael can and has been known to conjure up some pretty crazy storms, like the storm she created to destroy the Tower of Babel. Around the time of Moses, the Egyptians became afraid of dark clouds and lightning. The storms are probably part of how Azrael earned ‘the great wrath’.

• Wing Manifestation - Azrael has gigantic wings in her corporeal ‘cryptid’ form, and they translate onto her vessel as two six-foot-wide wings with pitch-black feathers. They are bulletproof, sharp as razors when they need to be, and very sensitive.

• Self Sustenance (almost) - Azrael doesn’t require water/food/air, and does not ‘evacuate’ waste. The only thing Azrael does require is sleep, but she refuses to sleep all the same.

• Earth Contaminant Immunity - Azrael is immune to all pathogens from the Earthly/physical realm. That means things like polio, rabies, small-pox, tuberculosis, leprosy, bubonic plague etc. However, rare and fatal pathogens created in Hell, or created by Raphael’s angels, can infect Archangels.

• Omnilingualism - Azrael can speak and read every language ever written or spoken on Earth, including her own mother-tongue. She also understands the Infernal languages but never speaks them. These are the languages she speaks, reads and write:

Enochian, Demonic Tongues (Cthonic, Gehenic, Tartarian, Purgatic etc.), English, Middle English, Latin, Aramaic, Hausa, Iroquoian (Seneca, Cherokee, Mohawk Etc.), Phoenician, Ammonite, Māori, Archaic Japanese, Haitian Creole, Navajo, Qaniujaaqpait, Old Chinese, Old Cyrillic, Powhatan, French, Nepalese, Italian, Inuktitut, Russian, Adamic, Chaldeac, Kathlamet, Xhosa, Spanish, German, Sanskrit, Assyrian, Malay, Filipino, Shina, Ancient Greek, Persian, Sumerian, Archaic, Punjabi, Egyptian, Afrikaans, Chiricahua, Old Huron, Hebrew, Gothic, Etruscan, Scythian, Proto-germanic, Western Apache, Celtic, Swahili, Yucatec Maya, Akkadian, Malagasy, Mycenaean Greek, Carthaginian, Sinhalese, Zulu, Mauritian Creole, Mandarin Chinese, Xiang Chinese, Turkmen, Uzbek, Nobiin, Atikamekw, Mi'kmaq, Kashmiri, Gujurati, Kurdish, Tamil, Chechen, Portugese, Witsuwit'en, Kazakh, Icelandic, Tajik, Kyrgyz, Qatari Arabic, Sioux, Cree, Korean, Algonquian (Ojibwe-potawatomi, Menominee, Cheyenne), Tibetan, Urdu, Adyghe, Bhutanese, Kachin, Burmese, Kabardian, Lithuanian, Old High German, Hittite, Danish, Mayan, Somali, Batek, Amharic, Manding, Vietnamese, Thai, Kordofan Nubian, Pictish, Turkish, Kanakanabu, Coptic, Lao, Khmer, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Polish, Auyokawa, Sentinelese, Jarawa, Czech, (Irish, Scottish) Gaelic, Welsh, Gaulish, Proto-celtic, Old Brythonic, Maharashrtri, Bering Strait Inupiatun, Eskimo-Aleut, Kalaalisut, Signing Exact English, ASL Etc.

• Ecological Empathy - Angels have a connection to all creation, including plants and animals. If you see Azrael talking to an animal, she’s not mad, she’s just doing what angels do.

• Enhanced Intelligence - Azrael’s IQ number is 400+ approximately, which is twice the number of the most intelligent human being.

• Possession - Although Azrael has her own vessel, she can possess a human body for a limited amount of time. If she is out of a vessel for an extended period of time, then she can become disorientated after returning to her body or another body.

• Neurocognitive Deficit - In the event that Azrael is low on power or experiencing a lot of pain, she can put herself into neuro-shut down, which essentially means that she is still in her vessel but totally unresponsive to all outside stimuli. This is also called a state of dormancy.

• Dimensional Awareness - The power to detect cross-dimensional portals/barriers within their proximity. Useful when Hell gates are opened.

• Astral Trapping - “The user can restrain, trap and/or seal astral beings (including astrally projecting being, ghosts, spirits, psychic entities, etc.) into a specific place, item or being (possibly allowing their energies to be tapped by others) or prevent them from entering certain areas or possessing beings/items. They can prevent a ghost from manifesting, prevent an astral projector from entering their body, or force ghosts on or off their plane of existence.”

• Beacon Emission - Azrael can send out a sort of SOS signal which can be perceived by other angels and intercepted by some other creatures. It’s kind of like the ping from a crashed aircraft.

• Omnidirectional Light Waves - Azrael can release a blast of destructive light that is powerful enough to send anyone and anything standing in its way flying. It’ll also smash windows and lights, and knock out the electrical grid.

• Energy Field Emission - The energy field around Azrael is a constant presence. It’s is the reason people who encounter her experience cold chills, goosebumps, and a feeling of dread when she gets close.

MISC. • She is immune to radiation. • She can interfere with the electrical grid (power cuts) and manipulate electrical instruments.

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Warring communities in Southern Kaduna have agreed to sheath their swords after a peace meeting between Atyap, Fulani and Hausa communities in the area.

Participants at the meeting condemned the killings and destruction that have occurred and resolved to forgive each other, help security agencies with information to arrest and prosecute criminal elements.

The meeting, which was held on Saturday at Mariyamu and Yakubu Event Centre in Ungwan Wakili under the auspices of His Highness, the Agwatyap, Dominic Gambo Yahaya, brought together the three communities in a peace atmosphere.

In a 14-point resolution, the meeting called on all residents of Atyap Chiefdom not to take laws into their hands and instead submit all grievances to lawful authorities.

The communique reads, "The meeting appreciated the fact that all Nigerians have the constitutional or fundamental rights to move and reside anywhere in Nigeria, including Atyap Chiefdom, without any fear, molestation or harassment from anybody or any source whatsoever.

"The summit therefore called on the authorities to facilitate the return of displaced persons.

"It recommended the establishment of a standing peace committee that should comprise of Hausa, Fulani and Atyap and their youth to organise robust engagement/dialogue on security issues from time to time with a view to sustaining peaceful coexistence.”

Meanwhile, President of Southern Kaduna People's Union, Jonathan Asake, and spokeperson of the group, Luka Binniyat, confirmed the presence of the union at the meeting.

Binniyat, while speaking with SaharaReporters said, "We wish for peace if it is going to bring final peace. If the people have agreed that they have stopped, peace is what we have been yearning for."

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Wargame Wednesday: Wargaming 19th Century Africa

Battle of Adwa. With St. George on the Ethiopian side the Italians didn’t have a chance.

While reading about the armies Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa 1830-1914 by Bruce Vandervort I had a thought that a feature of miniature war gaming is the diversity of readily available figures. A case can be made that the economics behind computer game development drive game topics to well known/popular historical periods (along with a “Euro-game” tendency) while the miniature market can support small production runs covering historical periods only supported by a niche market.

I will explore the available games and miniatures available for some of African armies covered in Wars of Imperial Conquest and attempt to find game coverage of the lesser known campaigns. This means the Zulus are out and, for example, concentrate on the Sokto Caliphate. Before I begin I’d wager that miniatures are available of their fight against the British Expeditionary Force in 1873-1873 but bonus points to any manufacturer or game designer that covers the birth of the caliphate when the Fulani tribe rebelled against the Hausa state of Gobrir. If that game or miniatures exist, I’ll buy them in time to review in this post.

My primary method of research will be via the DuckDuckGo search engine and the quest is to find the extent war gaming for 19th Century Africa, not to prove the superiority of miniature gaming over board or computer games. Next page, we’ll find out what is available and there is a short review of Vandervort’s book.

Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa 1830-1914

Map from Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa 1830-1914. Lots of untapped war game potential here.

In the preface Vandervort states that his goal is the examination of the origins and conduct of late 19th Century colonial warfare, “as far as possible from the perspectives of the European invaders and the African resistors”. He goes on to explain that his approach has been inspired by the “New Military History” which is a focus on the impact of war upon a society and culture as opposed to the “older histoire bataille” which concentrates on the strategies of the combatants, their tactics, and a chronicle of the campaigns. I’m skeptical of anything from modern Western Academia but, so far, it seems Vandervort has been successful in compiling “…a full and reasonably accurate account….from both sides of the battle line”.

Chapter 1 covers Africa on the eve of conquest and it from this chapter I’ll concentrate my search for figures and games. There is an high level survey of the various types of armies (armies with cavalry could only be found in North Africa and the savannah due to trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness spread by the tsetse fly) the social composition of the armies (“in West Africa particularly, military campaigns were often family affairs) and armaments, logistics, strategies and tactics (“On the South African veldt, it was possible to conduct the kind of manoeuvre warfare practiced on the plains of the Central Sudan. But here the instrument of manoeuvre warfare was infantry, not cavalry, albeit one of the most mobile infantries in the history of warfare: the Zulu impi”).

The last part of Chapter 1 highlights four African armies and I’ll concentrate on three of them in my search:

Ashanti Army – infantry army and only African army with its own corps of medical orderlies. Had military police armed with swords and whips stationed behind the lines for encouragement.

Sokoto Caliphate – genesis was a tribal revolt / jihad against animist tribes by an army mostly composed of light infantry in a sea of cavalry armies, developed the square formation with archers to win.

Zulu Army – no intro needed and miniature figures available in abundance. I’ve played some board games, especially on Isandlwana and even an early computer game on that battle.

Ethiopia – well known for their defeat of an Italian army at Adwa, they fought a British expeditionary force in 1867, then the Egyptians using Gatling guns and rocket tubes.

Chapter 2 discusses the various European armies and the remaining three chapters divide African history in the 19th and early 20th Centuries: 1830-1880 (mostly Algeria, then colonial wars in West Africa); 1880 – 1898 (the European “Scramble” to divide Africa) and 1898 – 1914 (a somewhat narrowing of the technological gap but mostly a change of strategy by Africans away from set piece battles to guerrilla warfare).

I’ve learned some interesting facts from this book:

The British Army was most successful in avoiding ill effects of the African climate by only assigning fighting duties to their troops and employing natives to carry out the labor required on campaign. Often the laborers would outnumber the soldiers.

Most European armies depended on African colonial troops. An example can be provided by…

Captain Jean-Baptiste Marchand trekking across Gabon to fight Kitchener accompanied by seven Frenchmen and 150 Tirailleurs Senegalais.

Prior to reforms enacted by General Bugeaud the French Algerian Army’s hospitals were so bad that it was not uncommon for ill or wounded soldiers to commit suicide rather than undergo treatment.

The Ethiopian Army employed artillery and could field “large numbers of reasonably well equipped” troops to include many with modern repeating rifles. The main weakness was in logistics and the army lived off the land. At Adowa the Eithiopians were close to running out of food but the Italians attacked a couple of days before the food ran out.

The military systems that made the Sokoto and Zulu so formidable also hindered their ability to adapt modern weaponry as these systems were deeply embedded in the social and political structures of these societies.

As I write this I’ve only read the intro and the first two chapters but if you are interested in the military history of this place and time this book serves as a good introduction to the subject and contains an excellent bibliography for further research.

Ashanti

The Sword and the Flame rule set has been used for the Ashanti Wars.

Seems to be some figures available here but no images posted.

The Sun Never Sets board game has a supplemental rule set for the Ashanti Wars.

Some homemade DBA army lists for Africa to include the Ashanti.

Castaway Arts seems to have the only dedicated line of Ashanti figures. Not many, but more than the others! The site even has a painting guide which includes the Ashanti Wars. They also have Italian Colonial, North Africa French & Arabs, Sudan, the Indian Colonial Army and Colonial Egyptians.

Sokoto Caliphate

Wargames Foundry: Armies of the 19th Century : Africa The African Knights. Not a rule book but seems to be the equivalent of an Osprey book. So far, I’m not getting any results for the Sokoto but, at a minimum, this book would allow a gamer to easily modify other ranges of figures to represent the Sokoto, at least after they evolved from their initial light infantry beginnings.

Irregular Miniatures saves the day! I write this after an extensive search that mostly came up with Sudan, Zulu and Boer Wars. I cannot link direct but from their barely adequate splash page, scroll to the purple bar on the bottom, click on the small 15mm link, then find the small Colonial Wars link on the left side. Scroll to the bottom and there is a section in which various African armies are listed along with the catalog numbers of the figures that can be used to fill the ranks.

Right at the top there are notes for the “SOKOTO SULTANATE under the Fulani, c1809-1900, consisted of 16 Hausa City States” and their main rival the Bornu Sultanate. There are also notes for the Bagirmi Sultanate. Many figures are interchangeable between the armies. I promised I would buy figures if I could find the period when the Fulani rebelled against the Hausa state of Gobrir. Haven’t found it yet, but Irregular Miniatures has come close.

A wargamer’s blog post here. Link to the small 2 figure range of Sokoto figures has expired.

Ethiopia

Found ItalWars. Unfortunately, no longer in business but they had a range of Italian colonial figures. Brief search on Ebay only came up with military memorabilia, Italian colonial stamps or British themed colonial miniatures.

Tin Solider with a range of 15mm Italian Colonial.

In the miniature list below many of the links have references to Abyssinia and Italian colonial troops are not that hard to find. I don’t have time for a dedicated search in Italian and that is where one may find more gaming opportunities.

Board Games

Not this post’s time period but added as it is in the spirit of this post: Timbuktu: Empire in the West African Sudan 1050-1550.

Africa 1880: diplomacy more than combat. Probably limited insight into African armies and kingdoms.

Scramble for Africa: another Diplomacy type game.

La Guerra de Africa 1859 – 60: Three battles from the Spanish – Moroccan War.

African Kingdoms: categorized as an abstract strategy war game so probably low for historical accuracy and before its time (i.e. Euro type games).

Miniature List

Many of the links below were found via this TMP Miniatures Library.

Essex Miniatures 15mm Colonial figures (Sudan, Zulu and Boer Wars).

Spencer Smith Miniatures, extensive colonial range, mostly Zulu/Boer and Sudan.

The British Empire Company 6mm range has most of the British colonial wars covered and do feature some Ashanti infantry.

Wargames Foundry has a Darkest Africa line and Congo rule set but think it veers towards action and adventure over historical reenactment.

Principles of War: 19th Century has army lists to include Africa

In the Heart of Africa (19th Century) contains army lists of East and Central African tribes and kingdoms fighting off invaders of all types (Colonial European powers, Turkish slavers, Arabs and Swahilis, etc.).

Computer Simulation List

Let me know if you can find any. Good luck.

Beyond Age of Empires and Civilization: Colonization type simulations and mods I’m not sure there is much out there.

Conclusion

If you want to command an African army from this time period then miniature war gaming is your best bet. There are many opportunities to war game the Zulu Wars, Sudan, the Boer Wars, French North African and Italian Abyssinian campaigns. Pre-Colonial African kingdoms are harder to find but as the Sokoto Caliphate section above shows, it is not impossible with some dedicated research and willingness to draft and mod figures from other armies.

The La Guerra de Africa board game is a clue that many European nations with a colonial past may have their own lines of miniatures and board games unknown to the English speaking market.

Finally, a search for famous battles and campaigns instead of an army may reveal more games.

Wargame Wednesday: Wargaming 19th Century Africa published first on https://medium.com/@ReloadedPCGames

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