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Malê Rising
This page serves as a record of all major installments for the Malê Rising timeline by Jonathan Edelstein. The original thread and comments can be read on the forum here.
List of Malê Rising Installments
Installment #1: Paulo Abacar leads Malê soldiers against the Sokoto Caliphate in 1840. (includes flashbacks concerning the original POD)
Installment #2: Analysis of Paulo Abacar, his ideology, and the establishment of the First Sokoto Republic
Installment #3: Paulo Abacar in the aftermath of the conquest of Sokoto
Installment #4: The Sokoto Republic 1840-41
Installment #5: Profile of Sokoto 1842
Installment #6: Islamic spiritual by African-American civil rights marchers
Map #1: Political map of the Sokoto Republic and its neighbors in 1842 by Kaiphranos
Installment #7: Paulo Abacar meets with Captain John Alexander of the British Army.
Installment #8: The Sokoto Republic 1842-45 and other developments in the region
Installment #9: Four 1844 interludes based in London, Ilorin, Desterro, and on the coastline of Lake Chad
Installment #10: The Abacar Affair of 1844-45 in Britain
Installment #11: Interlude, Sokoto 1845
Installment #12: The Sokoto Republic 1846-48 including the election of 1847
Installment #13: The Manumission and Residency Act in North Carolina
Installment #14: Through the Kingdoms of Africa by Karl May
Installment #15: John Alexander visits Sokoto and Timbuktu 1847-48
Installment #16: Lecture concerning industrialization in the First Sokoto Republic
Installment #17: Interlude, Paulo Abacar and his son Usman in 1848
Installment #18: Paulo Abacar publishes Thawra (Revolution)
Installment #19: The British and the Sokoto invade Dahomey
Installment #20: The Battle of Abomey
Installment #21: Succession crisis in the First Sokoto Republic
Installment #22: Senegal
Installment #23: 1852 interludes, Bilali Mahomet of Sapelo Island and Mary Ann, American slave in Pernambuco
Installment #24: The Shehu’s Ghost by Honório Yaji
Installment #25: Sokoto against Adamawa and the Toucouleur
Installment #26: 1852-53, Amilcar Said seizes power, end of the First Sokoto Republic
Installment #27: Usman Abacar leaves for England
Installment #28: Yorubaland
Installment #29: The First Toucouleur War
Installment #30: “Oumar Tall” by Mariama Koité
Installment #31: The Labor Movement in the Sokoto Successor States
Installment #32: The British in Zanzibar
Installment #33: The Sokoto Successor States in the 1850s and the development of Belloism
Installment #34: The Marianada slave rebellion in Brazil
Installment #35: 1858 interludes, Thomas Day in Liberia and Ana Clara in Gabon
Map #2: Political map of West-Central Africa in 1858 by Kaiphranos
Map #3: Expanded political map of West Africa in 1858 by Kaiphranos
Installment #36: Usman Abacar's teenage years in West Dorset
Installment #37: The American Civil War
Installment #38: The Great Rising in South Carolina
Installment #39: Afro-Brazilians in Gabon, Wolof tirailleurs in the New World, and the Toucouleur Empire after Umar Tall
Map #4: South America 1865 (admittedly with a few mistakes)
Installment #40: The Young Ottomans
Installment #41: Usman Abacar in India
Installment #42: Thomas Day in Liberia
Installment #43: East Africa in the 1860s
Installment #44: Post-war South Carolina
Installment #45: “The Gele“ by Zena Sebe Hardy
Installment #46: Religion among the Igbo and the Yoruba and the Return of Usman Abacar
Installment #47: The Second Toucouleur War, Wolof merchants, and the Franco-Prussian War
Installment #48: The Ottoman constitution of 1872 and Belloism in the 1870s
Installment #49: An End and a Beginning
Installment #50: South Africa 1850s to 1870s
Installment #51: East Africa in the 1870s
Installment #52: The Coasters of West Africa
Installment #53: The Making of West African Literature
Installment #54: Expanding British Power in West Africa
Map #5: The Lower Niger in 1878
Installment #55: France, the Toucouleur, and the Congo in the 1870s
Installment #56: 1876 interlude, Chiara and Souleymane in Paris
Installment #57: The War of the Balkan Alliance (aka the Russo-Turkish War of 1877)
Map(s) #6: Post-war maps of Balkans, Caucasus and the Crimea
Installment #58: Grão Pará and Brazil in the 1870s
Installment #59: The Oyo-Company War
Installment #60: Flashman on the Niger
Map(s) #7: Eastern Africa, Southern Africa 1880
Map #8: West Africa, 1880
Installment #61: India and the Great Famine
Installment #62: The Sokoto Successor States in the 1880s
Installment #63: France and the Congo 1881-1885
Map #9: 1880 World Map by B_Munro
Installment #64: Haiti 1877-85
Installment #65: East Africa in the early 1880s
Installment #66: Southern Africa in the early 1880s
Installment #67: The Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire and Bornu in the early 1880s
Installment #68: The Brussels Conference
Installment #69: Usman Abacar back in England 1887
Installment #70: A suffragist's letter to the Times
Installment #71: Early archeology in Nigeria
Graphic #1: Flag of the Ogeechee Republic by Future8
Installment #72: The War of the Eight Kings in East Africa
Installment #73: The Congo and Ethiopia in the aftermath of the Brussels Conference
Installment #74: Le fleuve des armées (The River of Armies) by Mamadou Camara
Installment #75: The Ottoman Empire 1886-92
Installment #76: The French Empire 1886-92
Installment #77: Brazil and Grão Pará 1880-92
Installment #78: Africans in Britain and West Africa 1886-92
Installment #79: Interlude, Karl May in Berlin 1892
Graphic #2: The Abacar Family Tree 1892
Installment #80: Southern Africa 1886-92
Installment #81: The United States of America in 1892, Part I
Installment #82: “Negro Adventure Novels”
Installment #83: The United States of America in 1892, Part II
Installment #84: Interlude, modern-day South Carolina
Installment #85: Pre-war India and Indonesia
Map #10: Southeast Asia, 1892
Map #11: The Grão-Pará Conflict as of January 1893
Map #12a: Africa, 1892 Map #12b: Africa, 1892, revised Map #12c: Africa, 1892, detextured
Installment #86: The Great War: Causes and Origins
Installment #87: The Boer and the Malê
Installment #88: A tale of two meetings, 1893
Installment #89: Unto the third generation, July 1893
Installment #90: More scenes from the BOGs' first year
Installment #91: Quite a bit on the FAR side
Installment #92: FAR and away, 1893-94
Installment #93: The First Year
Installment #94: War cabinets
Installment #95: Timbuktu June 1894: “My father hated yours, you know,” said Aguibou Tall.
Installment #96: Northern France, April 1894: “I think it should work this time,” said Thierry Niasse.
Installment #97: Grão Pará, May 1894: They didn’t blindfold Stanley, but then again, they didn’t have to.
Installment #98: Sarajevo, June 1894: Merjema heard footsteps and knew that her relief had arrived.
Installment #99: Berlin and Silesia, August 1894: Wilhelm II, King of Prussia and President of the North German Confederation, stabbed his finger down at the map on the table. “Here!”
Installment #100: West Prussia, Belgium and Köln, September 1894: “You have something to tell me, Carl?” asked Brigadier Suvorov
Installment #101: Paris, October 1894: “It looks like we’re planning a war,” Serigne said.
Installment #102: N’Dele, Mutapa and Kigoma, November-December 1894: The settlement at the base of the hill looked like any other Kara market town…
Installment #103: Russians abroad and at home, January 1895: “Idiots!” said Colonel Valentin Mikoyan, and he threw the letter down on his desk.
Installment #104: Phnom Penh, February 1895: It was an English ladye bright
Installment #105: Strangers in strange lands, March 1895: By now, Nazir Ali Hydari’s walk from the barracks to his throne on the waterfront had become a ritual.
Installment #106: Wrapping up the second year, part 1: Peter Moller, The Great War: The Second Year (New York: Academy, 1959)
Installment #107: Wrapping up the second year, part 2 (of 3): Ahmadu Odubogun, Faith and Ferment: The Sahel and Sudan in the Nineteenth Century (Ibadan Univ. Press 2005)
Installment #108: Literary interlude: the war of silence: Ibrahim Abacar, The Silent Ones (1895)
Installment #109: Diane Carroll, Wartime Politics of the Great Powers (Dublin: Trinity, 1975)
Installment #110: East of Tyumen, April 1895: The riders appeared from the darkness: three of them, armed, with rifles glinting in the moonlight.
Installment #111: West and Central Africa, May 1895: It’s never like this in the dime novels, Sanie Carter reflected.
Installment #112: Tehran, June 1895: There were two British consuls in Persia, the nominal one and the real one.
Installment #113: Italy and Piratini, July 1895: “You there!” Captain Alfred Dreyfus shouted.
Installment #114: India, July and August 1895: The orator stood in a square just outside of the Dal Bazaar, amid a gathering crowd.
Installment #115: Grão Pará and New York, April to September 1895: “Before the war,” said Agostinho, “some people called this city the Paris of the Amazon.”
Installment #116: Central Africa, October and November 1895: “Give honor to András Weisz, conqueror of the Sara!” the herald cried…
Installment #117: A Novel: F. George MacDonald, Flashman’s Valley (London: John Barrie, 2001)
Installment #118: Baden, Bavaria and Berlin, December 1895: “Coffee, Captain?” asked Sergeant Dobusch.
Installment #119: Honolulu, New Year’s Eve, 1895: While-you-wait episode.
Installment #120: Bengal, Siberia and Korea, January 1896.
Installment #121: Ile-Ife, February 1896: Another while-you-wait episode.
Installment #122: Congo, Katanga and Zanzibar, February 1896.
Installment #123: Bornu, March 1896: The Battle of Bornu.
Installment #124: Year 3 summary, part 1 of 2
Installment #125: Year 3 summary, part 2 of 2
Installment #126: April 1896: Colleton County, South Carolina: Harriet Tubman in a convention.
Installment #127:April and May 1896: The Apennines, Entre Rios and Verona.
Installment #128: May 1896: Saragarhi: Ibrahim's last stand.
Installment #129: A poem written by Ibrahim.
Installment #130: June 1896: In and around the Ottoman Empire.
Installment #131: July 1896: Persia and Central Asia.
Installment #132: June to August 1896: Around the Pacific Ocean.
Installment #133: July and August 1896: Bavaria and India.
Installment #134: August and September 1896: Karlsruhe, Ticino and Warsaw.
Map #13: Northern Italy and the Balkans 1896 (includes the Sarajevo pocket).
Installment #135: September 1896: The National Peace Party and the 1896 General election.
Map #14: Election map of 1896.
Installment #136: September to November 1896: South Kivu, Barotseland and Rwanda.
Installment #137: November-December 1896: Albania, Salonika and Sarajevo.
Installment #138: December 1896: The Düsseldorf Line and Paris: The government falls…
Installment #139: January 1897: Wrapping up the American election story.
Installment #140: January 1897: Ethiopia and Aden.
Installment #141: January and February 1897: Italy and South America.
Installment #142: Early 1897: The Russian Revolution and the overthrow of the Romanov Dynasty.
Installment #143: March 1897: West Africa.
Installment #144: April 1897: Budapest and Luanda.
Map #15: András Weisz's journey through Africa.
Installment #145: May 1897: Berlin and Strasbourg.
Installment #146: June 1897: North Tyrol and the end of the Great War.
Installment #147: November 1897: The Washington Peace Conference through the POV of delegates.
Installment #148: 1897 to 1898: The Washington Peace Conference in full entirety.
Installment #149: 1898, Part 1: Hungary, Oxford and France
Map #16: Post-war map of Africa and South America.
Installment #150: November 1898, Part 1.5: Andorra la Vella; The Papal Legion is afoot.
Map #17: Post-war map of the world, circa 1900, by B_Munro.
Installment #151: 1898, Part 1.75: Tokyo: The military's busted.
Installment #152: 1898, Part 2: Dublin, Haifa, Kigali and Rehoboth.
Installment #153: 1899, Part 1: The Burgenland, Corsica, Friuli and Bukasa.
Installment #154: 1899, Part 2: Post-war developments all around the world.
Installment #155: Turn of the century: Postwar Eurasia I: War is politics by other means.
Installment #156: Turn of the century: Postwar Eurasia II: War is politics by other means.
Installment #157: Turn of the century: Postwar Eurasia III: Politics, war and strange bedfellows.
Installment #158: Literary interlude: The storms of Kamchatka: Karl May, Minoru, Hero of the North (Berlin: Fehsenfeld, 1899)
Installment #159: November 1899, Charleston: A while-you-wait episode.
Installment #160: Turn of the century: Postwar developments in Africa.
Installment #161: Turn of the century; London, Chatham: Into a new world.
Map #18: Colored post-war map of South America, circa 1900, by sketchdoodle.
Installment #162: 1900-1909: France: Futurism and the first decade of the Red Twenty
Installment #163: 1900-1911: The British Empire: Postwar politics in Britain and India
Installment #164: 1900-1907: East Africa: Faith, succession, rule and choice
Installment #165: Interlude : Translethania and surroundings: The end of the Hungarian civil war
Installment #166: Interlude : A tale of two families, 1906
Installment #167: Literary Interlude : The Country of Woman’s Dreams by Funmilayo Abacar
Installment #168: 1900-1910 : West and South Africa: Trade routes, Copperbelt regions and South African politics
Map #19: Trade routes of West Africa, circa 1900.
Installment #169: 1900-1910 : South America, The Caribbean, and a new papal conclave…
Installment #170: 1900-1909 : The Ottoman Empire and Salonika: Cinema, nationalism, and the rise of parallel government
Installment #171: 1900-1909 : Russia, Chinese Central Asia and the Russian Far East: Changes in administration and industrial problems
Installment #172: Interlude : Come down to Kew in lilac-time, Richmond-upon-Thames, April 1910
Installment #173: The United States 1900-20, Part 1 of 2 : America goes multi-party
Map #19: Colored post-war map of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, circa 1900, by sketchdoodle.
Installment #174: The United States 1900-20, Part 1 of 2 : African-American migrations and Tubman's final accomplishments
Installment #175: Interlude : Omar settling down and an Abacar reunion in France: Tokyo / Paris, July 28, 1914
Installment #176: 1910-1920 : The Ottoman Empire, the Caucasus and surrounding areas : Revolution, agitation and a new discovery
Installment #177: Interlude : Arthur Conan Doyle, Vampire Writer : Salonika, April 1915
Installment #178: 1910-1920 : Russia, the Far East and Ethiopia: new rulers, movements and ferment
Installment #179: Interlude : Ethiopia and Eritrea, 1915-1916
Installment #180: 1910's : The Court of Arbitration and the Sulu “crisis”
Installment #181: 1910-1920 : Europe in the 1910s, part 1
Installment #182: 1910-1920 : Europe in the 1910s, part 2 : A new nation-system is born…
Installment #183: Interlude : a tree grows in the Copperbelt : Ndola, Kazembe, May 1916
Installment #184: 1910-1920 : Latin America in the 1910s, part 1
Installment #185: 1910-1920 : Latin America in the 1910s, part 2 (also includes the Caribbean)
Installment #186: 1910-1920 : The beginning of the end of the British Empire
Installment #187: Street-fighting in Amritsar, November 1916
Installment #188: GUEST POST : 1911-1913 : El Salvador and Honduras
Installment #189: FLASHBACK : 1911-1914 : The rise of the Imperial Party through the eyes of a London worker
Graphic #3: Flags of Sokoto and Ilorin
Installment #190: Literary interlude : From a (slightly) more innocent age: W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, Mutesa, or The Baron of Mugungi (1908)
Installment #191: The Dominions 1910-17, part 1 of 2
Installment #192: The Dominions 1910-17, part 2 of 2
Installment #193: Interlude : An unexpected situation : Thaba Bosiu, August 1916
Installment #194: Interlude : On the edges of the sea, September 1916
Installment #195: 1917-1918 : The beginning years of the Indian War of Independence
Map #20a: attempted map of India, 1917 Map #20b: another attempted map of 1917 India Map #20c: map of India from the author himself, and Map #20d: a final detailed map of 1917 India.
Installment #196: India, March 1917 to January 1918
Installment #197: Literary interlude : Flashman and Empire and a complete list of Flashman's adventures.
Footnote #1: The First Government of the Republic of India: March 1917 to August 1919
Installment #198: late 1910's : The rest of the British Empire (Includes West Africa and Ilorin)
Installment #199: The music of revolution, February to April 1917
Installment #200: Chandrapur District, Central Provinces, November 1919
Installment #201: late 1910's to early 1920's : The middle years of the Indian War of Independence, with a Map #21: of India to help along.
Installment #202: Scenes from a colonial war, August 1919 to October 1920
Installment #203: political debate on race and India : Washington, November 1918
Installment #204: Arakan and Ahmednagar, March 1919 to November 1920: “I’m the colonel of this regiment,” said Sikandar Bakht Bahadur, “and you can’t deny me the chance to fight!”
Installment #205: 1921-1922 : The end of the Indian War of Independence and the downfall of the Imperial Party
Map #22: Detailed map of postwar India.
Installment #206: Interlude : Two Delays on the Northern Line, January 1923
Graphic #4: Family tree of the Abacars in 1923
Installment #207: 1920-1929 : Social upheavals in Southwest Africa
Installment #208: 1920-1929 : Changes in South Africa and new royal exile arrives…
Installment #209: GUEST POST : 1870-1909 : Advancements in science
Installment #210: 1920-1929 : Rebellions and change in the Omani Empire and Ethiopia
Installment #211: Interlude : Private wars, 1920-22
Installment #212: Interlude : Two old women and the yamali, 1922
Footnote #2: The locations of the Olympic games from 1900 to 1928
Installment #213: 1920-1929 : A new Bonaparte and the end of the Red Twenty (with the Toucouleur and Mossi on the side)
Installment #214: GUEST POST : The Royal Navy After The Indian Revolution
Installment #215: GUEST POST : 1920-1929: India and it's Princely States problem
Map #23: Map of Africa in 1930
Installment #216: Interlude : Africans abroad, 1926
Installment #217: The history of the Congo Fever up to 1930
Installment #218: 1920- 1930: British West Africa with a bit of Liberia on the side
Installment #219: 1920s-1930: The Imperial aftermath in Britain and Ireland
Installment #220: GUEST POST : 1910-1920: Spain and it's upheavals
Installment #221: 1920-1930: Britain's new Caribbean adventures (and a new Dominion too!)
Installment #222: GUEST POST : The Roma
Installment #223: 1920-1930: New national problems for the Ottomans, Persia and Aceh
Installment #224: 1920-1930: Political reform in India and the social changes of the postwar nation
Installment #225: Interlude : A choice to be made for the smallest Princely State… : Kathiawar, June 1930
Installment #226: Interlude : Ujjal Singh meets the Family : Zanzibar, 1932
Map #24: Map of India after the reforms (1920's-ish)
Map #25(a): 1930 World Map by Iserlohn with an Map #25(b)updated one.
Installment #227: 1920-1940: Political and social action in the U.S.A with Civil Rights at the forefront
Installment #228: Interlude : A Southern symphony : The American South, 1930
Footnote #3: Per Capita GDP (PPP) of selected states, 1935 (2014 international dollars)
Installment #229: 1930s-1940s: Progress in South Africa, and a look into Natal
Installment #230: 1930s-1940s: Religous and social change in Portuguese Africa
Installment #231: Interlude : No island is an island : near Bremerhaven, January 1936
Installment #232: 1930s-1940s: Protests, ferment and youth culture in the German Africa and Madagascar (plus a lecture on the International Congo)
Installment #233: Interlude : The Kinder-Garten : Ndola, Kazembe, 1935
Map #25(c) A further updated map of the world by 1930
Installment #234: 1930s-1940s: Italian Africa and Spanish Guinea
Installment #235: Interlude : Interview with an African-American baseball player : North Carolina, 1974
Installment #236: 1930-1940: Progress in Central Asia with the Russian fringes in flux
Installment #237: Interlude : The eve of battle : Buganda, 1935
Map #25(d) some world map, now with notes from the author!
Installment #238: 1935-1936: The Great Nile War, Part 1
Installment #239: 1936-1940: The Great Nile War, Part 2 (With big effects on Zanzibar)
Installment #240: Literary interlude : The kami of Nan Madol: Ayame Pangelinan, The Pepper and the Pearl (Tokyo: Otowa, 1939)
Installment #241: 1900s-1940s: Ongoing change in the Pacific islands and Australasia
Installment #242: Narrative update : The last celebration of Sarah Child : Benares, December 1938
Installment #243: 1920s-1940s: troubles in Japan, more so in China and South East Asian decolonization
Installment #244: Narrative update : Journeys around the world; Lagos, Paris, Saigon and Zanzibar : 1940
Installment #245: 1930s-1940s : The beginnings of decolonization in French and British West Africa (plus growing ferment for the Toucouleur)
Installment #246: GUEST POST : 1931 : A multicultural protest for justice in Minnesota
Installment #247: 1920s-1940s :Integration and independence for German Africa
Installment #248: 1920s-1950s : The end of the Portuguese novo reino and the final fall of Natal
Installment #249: Interlude : scenes from the fall : Natal, March 1945
Installment #250: GUEST POST : 1895-1950's : Advancements in science, physics, and inter-university cooperation
Installment #251: GUEST POST : 1944 : The creation of the Legatum Humanitatis (prologue) : Venice, Italy
Installment #252: GUEST POST : 1800's-1900's : The Legatum Humanitatis (part 2)
Installment #253: GUEST POST : mid-1900's : The Legatum Humanitatis (part 3)
Installment #254: GUEST POST : 1963 : The Legatum Humanitatis (epilogue)
Map #26: East Africa in 1955
Installment #255: 1940-1955 : The Bloody Forties, Zanzibar, Nyasaland and the Congo
Installment #256: Narrative update : In every generation : Sikonge, May 1945
Installment #257: 1940-1953 : The Sino-Russian war and it's aftermath on international relations
Installment #258: 1930-1955 : The 'Last Mughal Empire' and the All-India Development Union
Installment #259: 1930-1950 : Afro-Atlantic relations and the fall of the West Indies Dominion
Installment #260: Interlude : The Feast of Freedom : Salonika, 1952
Installment #261: 1930's-1955 : The Ottomans evolving, Qajar Persia devolving and Empress Anastasia's later years.
Installment #262: Narrative update : The finer points of diplomacy; Ilorin, Benares and Saint-Lunaire : 1950-1953
Map(s) #27: Political, administrative, income, and associative maps of Africa, circa 1955
Installment #263: GUEST POST : 1911-1956 : Central America
Installment #264: Narrative update : A British monarch on a former crown jewel : Benares, 1961
Installment #265: 1940-55 : Political, social, and cultural upheaval in West Africa, part 1
Graphic #5: The international system and Consistory membership of the world, circa present-day
Map(s) #28: populations of foreign ethnic groups in Africa, circa 1955
Installment #266: 1940-55 : Political, social, and cultural upheaval in West Africa, part 2
Installment #267: Literary interlude : The castle between the worlds: Paul K. Daniels, The Rubaiyat of Shahrzad Esfahani (New York: Putnam, 1957)
Installment #268: 1920-70 : Progression, radicalism, and change in South America (with a side of the Catholic Church)
Installment #269: Narrative update : A meeting of many faces : Richmond Hill, Queens, June 1956
Installment #270: Narrative update : An eagle-child confronting a riot : Malebo, International Congo, 1957
Installment #271: Narrative update : The question of succession for a seafaring tribe : Nggela Archipelago, Solomon Islands, 1958
Installment #272: Narrative update : The passing of Funmilayo and a brush with the Congo fever : London and Illorin, 1959
Installment #273: Narrative update : The case of a shooting, from beginning to end : Hawaii, 1960
Installment #274: Narrative update : A king and a procession : Madras, 1961
Installment #275: Narrative update : A railroad worker in a changing land : Kisumu, Nyanza, 1962
Installment #276: Narrative update : Secessionist nationalism in the Portuguese capital : Lisbon, 1963
Installment #277: Narrative update : A woman asks a former Empress for advice : Lake Tana, 1964
Installment #278: Narrative update : SPAAAAAAAAACCE!!! : Cayenne, September 1965
Installment #279: GUEST POST : The atomic age arrives to the U.S.A
Installment #280: Narrative update : The beginnings of revolution : St. Petersburg, 1966
Installment #281: Narrative update : The remembrance of a bloody war : Peking and Shanghai, 1967
Installment #282: Narrative update : Scenes from an alternate Texas : Houston, 1968
Installment #283: Narrative update : Agricultural ferment in Bolivia : La Paz, 1969
Installment #284: Narrative update : A poet in Futurist West Africa : Ségou, Timbuktu, & Dakar, 1970
Installment #285: 1900's-1970 : The continuation of civil rights and asymmetric relationship in the United States and Canada
Installment #286: GUEST POST : 1955-1970 : India and the Dominion of Madras
Installment #287: 1900's-1970 : Change in the Portuguese Empire and state dramas in South Africa
Installment #288: 1900's-1970 : The independence (and aftermath) of the International Congo
Installment #289: 1900's-1970 : Copperbelt culture, ferment in Madagascar, and the growth (or not) of former German Central Africa
Installment #290: Literary interlude: The songs of distant Africa: Alexander Chishimba, The Stars That Bore Us (Ndola: Chenjele, 1963)
Installment #291: 1900's-1970 : Settling out indigenous rights in Australasia.
Installment #292: GUEST POST : Culture and multilingualism in the United States - Part 1
Installment #293: 1900's-1970 : Massive upheavals across the Pacific Islands, with the dragging inclusion of Germany and Japan.
Footnote #4: List of presidents of the United States of America, with some corrections by the author
Installment #294: 1900's-1970 : Fallout and resolution of the Sino-Russian War, along with Korea and Southeast Asia.
Installment #295: 1900's-1970 : An imperial funeral at Ethiopia, and the growth (and rebuilding) of the Great Lakes and East Africa.
Map #29: 1970 world map by Analytical Engine, along with some updated versions.
Installment #296: 1900's-1970 : Culture, climate and ferment in West Africa
Installment #297: 1900's-1970 : Progression and conflict in post-Empire'ish Europe
Installment #298: 1970-2000 : SPAAAAAAAAACCE!!!
Installment #299: Narrative update : The education of Laila Abacar, 1971-85
Installment #300: Cultural interlude : fantasies of a fantasy (ITTL Ancient Nigerian movies)
Installment #301: GUEST POST : The evolution of Native rights in British Colombia (Part I)
Installment #302: GUEST POST : The evolution of Native rights in British Colombia (Part II)
Installment #303: Interlude : Ibrahim Singh bargains a deal : Kismayo, 1978
Installment #304: 1970-2000 : Change and modern development in Portugal, Portuguese Africa and South Africa
Installment #305: Interlude : A South African union : Basotholand, 1992
Installment #306: Literary interlude: A city of many doors
Installment #307: 1970-2000 / 2014 : Symposium on Central African Development (mainly about Congo, though)
Installment #308: Interlude : A former citizen in a ruined land : Okoyo, United Republic of the Congo, May 1993
Installment #309: Cultural interlude : ethics in gaming journalism
Installment #310: 1970-2000 : Kazembe, Madagascar, former German Africa, and the decline - and ruin - of Hermann Tschikaya’s Congo
Installment #311: Interlude : Hospitality in a wintry snowstorm : Lake Onega, January 1998
Installment #312: Narrative update : A revolution through the eyes of an underground priest : Budapest, July 1992
Installment #313: 1970's-2010's : Political, religious, and cultural maturity in modern America.
Installment #314: 1970's-2010's : Insights into Afro-Atlantism and the political development of modern Canada.
Installment #315: GUEST POST : GUEST POST - French political history, PART ONE : Napoléon IV's era
Graphic #6: GUEST POST : List of the Prime Ministers of France from 1870 to 1890
Installment #316: 1970's-1990's : Europe since 1970, part 1 of 2 (The development of the EU and the cataclysmic fall of Hungary)
Installment #317: 1970's-2000's : Europe since 1970, part 2 of 2 (The aftermath of Hungary and the state(s) of modern Europe)
Map #30: Political map of 2015 Europe from the author
Installment #318: 1970's-2000's : The triumphs (and problems) of modern Russia and Turkestan
Graphic #7: Wikipedia-style infobox on Funmilayo Abacar by the author
Installment #319: 1955-2000's : South America since 1955 - revolution, ferment, and maturity
Installment #320: 1955-2000's : Central America and Mexico since 1955 - further ferment, change, and the catastrophe of El Salvador
Installment #321: Narrative update : The Education of Laila Abacar, 1991-2001
Installment #322: 1960's-2000's : Social, political, and economic flux in contemporary East Asia
Installment #323: 1960's-2000's : Oceania in the modern age
Installment #324: Literary interlude: A moving battlefield: Kazuo Manea, The Roviana Dog (Auki: New Malaita, 2003)
Installment #325: 1960's-2000's : Change in the Great Lakes and East Africa with new challenges for Ethiopia
Installment #326: Literary interlude: An alternate Constantine Cavafy poem.
Installment #327: 1960's-2000's : Modern Southeast Asia & India
Installment #328: Interlude : Memories of a poet : Shatby, Alexandria, January 1990
Installment #329: 1955-2000's : Persia and the Caucasus
Installment #330: 1950s-2000's : Ottoman Union, North Africa and the emirates of the Persian Gulf
Installment #331: Narrative update : The Education of Laila Abacar, 2003-2009
Installment #332: Modern West Africa since 1970
Installment #333: “If you will it, it is no dream”, or the birth of the Union of Nigeria in 2011
Map #31: Map of Africa in 2015 from the author
Map #32: Map of Union of Nigeria by Upvoteanthology.
Map #33: 2015 world map by Analytical Engine, first part.
Map #34: 2015 world map by Analytical Engine, second part.
Graphic #8: Flag of Bornu, made by Moe Satyr
Graphic #9: Flags of Nigeria, the Toucouleur, Grão Pará, and East Africa (Empire of), made by Moe Satyr
Installment #334: 2015: Epilogue, Part 1 : The Past
Installment #335: 2015: Epilogue, Part 2 : The Present
Installment #336: 2015: Epilogue, Part 3 : The Future
Graphic #10: GUEST POST : French political history, PART ONE : Napoléon IV's era - 1887 election
Installment #337: Narrative update : A Stop Along the Way: A Malêverse Story, November 1876 (Writer's Forum. An account is needed to read.)
Graphic #11: GUEST POST : French political history, PART ONE : Napoléon IV's era - 1872 election
Graphic #12: GUEST POST : French political history, PART ONE : Napoléon IV's era - 1877 election
Graphic #13: GUEST POST : French political history, PART ONE : Napoléon IV's era - 1881 election
Graphic #14: GUEST POST : French political history, PART ONE : Napoléon IV's era - 1883 election
Installment #338: Post-ending narrative update : Southern hospitality in the Sea Islands' anniversary, September 1961
Installment #339: Post-ending narrative update : To marry the winds (featuring Ibrahim Abacar), March 1896
Installment #340: The Ballad of the Supply Officer, by Ibrahim Abacar (Cambodia, 1895)
Graphic #15: GUEST POST : List of Prime Ministers of France from 1870 to 1954
Installment #341: GUEST POST : French political history (PART TWO?), from Leclair to the Civil War and it's remembrance.
Installment #342: GUEST POST : French political history (PART THREE?), the figures who led the Legislative Elections of 1928.
Installment #343: GUEST POST : A short piece on the rise of the Internet
Installment #344: Post-ending narrative update : A Stone for the Cathedral, 1943
Installment #345: Post-ending narrative update : By the Water (part 1 of 2), 1903-04
Installment #346: Post-ending narrative update : By the Water (part 2 of 2), 1903-04
Installment #347: Post-ending narrative update : Burnt Offerings, (North Carolina, October 1888)
Installment #348: Post-ending : Guide to American Civil War Monuments : South Carolina, 2016
Installment #349: Malêverse 2100: Elegy for an Oasis (The Sahara desert)
Installment #349: Malêverse 2100: For Those Who Still Dream (Kazembe and surroundings)