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Africa is the world's third largest continent. It is characterised by the vast Sahara desert in the north, the wide rain forest belts of the centre and extensive plains to the south. While continuously inhabited since the very dawn of humanity the terrain and climate has made nation building difficult and prevented many innovations and ideas spreading southward.

The European explorers of the early modern era rarely paid much attention to the continent, merely using its ports to reach the richer lands of India and the spice islands beyond. Portugal populated its mid-Atlantic islands with slaves bought in the great markets of West Africa but with ample man-power available in Leifia other nations rarely made the effort to engage with the native kingdoms. However, trade did slowly begin to build and by the mid 1700s an intense rivalry involving Europe and several Leifian nations powered a boom in fortress building to stake definitive claims on a particular area's products. Nowadays the coasts are dotted with trade forts belonging to foreign powers, some literally just a building, others endowed with more substantial lands with limited colonisation.

The Caliphate and the five great African Sultanates occupy much of the Sahara and Sudan areas, often more at war with each other than the non-Islamic states to their south. Clinging to the West African coast are a multitude of states, many forming loose federations. On the central West coast the old kingdoms of Kongo and Lunda are slowly appearing from a century of civil war to become economic powerhouses. To their south lies the only major European colony on the continent; the New Netherlands. To its East the paint is still drying on the Union of Southern States of Africa and the jury is still out on whether it will hold. Along the East coast old Arabian sultanates are slowly being turned into native controlled kingdoms eager to fight one another and the ancient Kingdom of Ethiopia for the centre.

African Nations
Country Capital Flag Current Head of State
Akan Union File:Akan Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Anglian Indian Ocean Islands (Anglia) Hannahsdort AIOI Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg King William V
Aro Confederation Arochukwu File:Aro Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Benin File:Benin Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Boke File:Boke Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Borgu File:Borgu Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Bornu File:Bornu Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Cayor File:Cayor Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
The Caliphate Baghdad Flag of Cyrenaica Caliph
Dahomey Aborney File:Dahomey Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Darfur File:Darfur Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Ethiopia File:Ethiopia Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Eweland Akatsi Flag of Eweland (The Kalmar Union) King Letsa III
Farim Republic File:Farim Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Fulo File:Fulo Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Gazaland Giyani File:Gazaland Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Granada Granada Flag of Granada (The Kalmar Union).svg Emir Ismael VI
Igala File:Igala Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Ijoland File:Ijoland Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Jukun File:Jukun Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Kaabu File:Kaabu Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Kakongo File:Kakongo Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Katsina File:Katsina Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Kongo File:Kongo Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Loango File:Loango Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Lunda File:Lunda Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Mali File:Mali Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Mane Kenema Flag of Mane (The Kalmar Union) Farima Bonokai III Kpanna
Merina Ambohimanga Merina Flag (The Kalmar Union) King Radama VI
Mossi File:Mossi Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
New Netherlands (United Netherlands) Kaapstad New Netherlands (The Kalmar Union).svg Queen Charlotta
Nupe File:Nupe Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Oyo File:Oyo Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Portuguese Africa (Portugal) Mombasa Flag of Portuguese Africa (The Kalmar Union).svg King Manuel IV
Sabe File:Sabe Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Sekukuniland Seshego File:Sekukuniland Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Sennar File:Sennar Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Shilluk File:Shilluk Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Sine File:Sine Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Songhay File:Songhay Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
United States of South Africa USSA Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg
Venda Thohoyandou File:Venda Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Xweda File:Xweda Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
Zaria File:Zaria Flag (The Kalmar Union).svg.png
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