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Mod Overview
The goal of Africa Plus (BAP) is to bring additional depth and flavor to playing in Africa. This mod was originally a project focused on improving just West Africa, but has since grown to encompass the whole continent (though the focus of the work remains uneven). Recent updates have focused on adding greater depth to the regions of Nubia and Ethiopia, through an overhaul of East African cultures and the addition of a unique form of Ethiopian Christianity.

BAP's main focus is a thorough religion and culture rework of the African continent. BAP adds more than a dozen new faiths, with new tenets, whilst heavily revising vanilla African religions. The mod also adds over a dozen new cultures in West and East Africa, whilst also overhauling name and dynasty lists, in total adding more than nearly 3000 new names, as well as thousands of fixed localisations for things like vanilla African religions, cultures, ruler and council titles, names of counties, duchies, kingdoms and more. BAP also adds fun and interesting new decisions, characters, events to add flavour to Africa with a mix of increased historicity and playability (fun!).

Please join us on the mod's Discord to give feedback, make suggestions, or help out:

BAP-EPE Compatch:

BAP-Muslim Enhancements Compatch:

Current suggested load order for BAP friendly mods:
Ibn Battuta's Legacy

Muslim Enhancements

IBL-ME Compatch

BAP

BAP-ME Compatch

EPE

EPE-ME Compatch

BAP-EPE Compatch

Latest Update Released: 18/06/22
Mod admin changes:

IBL no long required to run BAP as a base-mod, though still complimentary. I'm continuing to reduce my use of history files and transfer more changes to script to increase compatibility further, this is an ongoing process as it's quite fiddly and time-consuming.

West Africa Culture Overhaul

Prior to the Mossi, the Tengabissi or Children of the Forest were the Aboriginal people of Burkina Faso and parts of Northern Ghana who broadly shared a religion focused on an Earth cult, and hierarchy of Earth Priests. In vanilla CK3 these peoples are represented by the Gur culture, which is more properly their language grouping. I have finally broken up the Gur blob into it's constituent elements, which include the Kurumba, Lilse, and Kibsi. These Aboriginal cultures form the core of a new Gur heritage group.

-Added the following cultures to the Gur heritage: Kurumba, Lilse, Kibsi, Senufo (new culture), Lobi (new culture), Konkomba (Aboriginal inhabitants of northern modern day Ghana) and Gurma (renamed vanilla Gur culture).

-Added Zarma culture to their supposed pre-migration territory (Ni ger bend region). The Zarma would later migrate down the Ni ger to the Dendi region and eventually form a fusion culture with the Songhai.

-Akan culture has been renamed Bono to reflect the fact that Akan groups had not split up and evolved unique cultural identities until centuries after the 1066 start date. The Bono people are said to be the first Akan group to settle within modern-day Ghana, from which latter groups such as Fante, Asante etc. developed. Consequently the territory of the 'Akan' culture has been scaled back to reflect that proto-Akan groups had not yet spread southwards. Instead Guang replaces Akan for the territory south of Bonoman, as the Guang are regarded as first group to migrate into the region.

Sahara and North Africa

-AmaheÄŸ aka Tuareg (I could resist no longer), Haratin, and Afru (African-Romance is back!) -Added a new Afru culture to the game, to represent African Romance culture of North Africa that was present in region of k_aghlabid well past 1066. This culture has no map presence but characters of this culture are added to courts within this kingdom at both start dates. -Added a new Haratin culture to the game, to represent the Haratin peoples of Western Sahara present in region of k_anbiya until the present day (where they make up the majority of the population of Mauretania). This culture has no map presence but characters of this culture are added to courts within this kingdom at both start dates.

Religion
-Torou paganism (Songhai) is now present on the map, and replace Bidaism for the middle Ni ger region. -A bunch of counties in Gur lands have been flipped to Gur paganism (Tengdemba) due to county culture changes (see below).

-The ruler of 1066 Mali is now an adherent of

maraboutism instead of Ashari.

-I've increased the influence of Tsafi (Bori) on the southern and west peripheries of Hausaland, based on further research.

-I've further reduced the number of Ashari counties in the horn in 867, given that penetration of Islam did not accelerate for centuries after this.

-Using new features of latest patch, Ethiopian Orthodox faith now properly has the Coptic Patriarch as its head of faith (yay!).

-BAP's Sacred Mountains tenet is now defunct (and removed) as PDX have introduced their own tenet which is ostensibly the same thing (along with their previous addition of the sacred mountains cultural tradition!). So religions that previously had BAP's Sacred Mountain tenet now have the vanilla Cthonic Redoubt tenet, this include the Guanche, Amazigh, Tsafi, and

Idoist religions.

Titles and de jure structure changes
-Some changes that were previously left to IBL have now been integrated into BAP itself: -New de-jure empire: Lower Ni ger Empire now made de-jure instead of only formable by decision, though for flavor can still be formed via decision at a higher cost for certain bonuses. -New de-jure empire: Nubian Empire made de-jure, decision to form the empire title removed. -The akward vanilla kingdom of Igbo-Benue is no more. In it's place we have two new kingdoms; -New de-jure kingdom: Nri, composed of duchy of Igbo-Ukwu and (the new) duchy of Ijo. Nri deserved it's own title, albeit vanilla leaves us few counties to work with unfortunately. -New de-jure kingdom: Banzaland - like in IBL Banzaland consists of the so-called 'Banza' states, and there remains a decision to unit Plus minor bug fixes mostly related to loc issues. Please report any problems and I will try to fix them ASAP.

BAP is a member of CMH

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CHANGELOG
v2 - Released 2022-06-18

REQUIREMENTS

Crusader Kings III

Full game

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