Pretty much resembles Modern Day
Africa, at least in the eyes of most Western viewers, although in the less-politically-correct past the "savage with the bone in his nose stuffing the pith-helmeted explorer into a cooking pot" image was quite prevalent. In reality, it had as many empires, heroes, barbarians, and wars as anywhere else in the world.
See also
Darkest Africa and
Useful Notes: Africa.
Works set in this time period are:
Comic Books
- One Hellboy story features a retelling of the story of ancient West-African Culture Hero Makoma, a superhuman guy with a hammer who perishes after a Double KO with a 7-headed monster. May or may not be the forerunner to African-American Culture Hero John Henry who also used a hammer & perished in a similar, though less fantastic manner.
Film
Literature
- One of the Royal Diaries was set in Angola; supposed to be a diary of a young African princess (Nzingha?), it is truly quite lacking in stereotypes about Africa and presents an interesting picture of the continent during the 1500's (colonization and the slave trade), particularly for a book written for a YA audience.
- Lots of Robert E Howard stories are set here, with visits by characters such as Conan or Solomon Kane typically involving Eldritch Abominations terrorizing the countryside.
Live Action TV
Video Games
- Europa Universalis
and its sequels, which let you play as an African empire even if your usual fate is to get invaded.
