Alright first of all this idea is not meant to be rascist in any way, I hope I don't offend anybody.:)

Now it always makes me annoyed to see a mali warrior that is light skinned maybe someone can make their unit's skins a little darker to make it more realistic? And also for some other civs also.

So IamSid wants Flavour units and I second that nomination.I liked the Civ III RAR & Rhyes mods etc which gave you some flavour in the game.
This should actually be rather simple (though time consuming) as skin darkening could be done to the skins of the units, resulting in some variety. The XML/Civilizations/CivilizationInfos.xml has the following code which is used to replace the regular unit with the UU.


<Units>
<Unit>
<UnitClassType>UNITCLASS_WORKER</UnitClassType>
<UnitType>UNIT_INDIAN_FAST_WORKER</UnitType>
</Unit>
</Units>

The above code is for the Indian fast worker. I should be able to do the same with some flavour units for Mali and such. I may test this out and see what happens. :D

Thank you!:)

I tried to do this for you, but both attempts ended up losing too much detail. The darker you get, the harder it is to maintain contrast between the details of the face (eyes, nose, etc) and you end up with just a black shape for the face. Ugh.... Sorry

LOL I noticed this too. Its hard to make a really dark skinned person because of that.