Speculation for African Civs in Civ6 vanilla

[Makenshi]

I'm a big fan of Ethiopia for all they represented to the peoples of Africa, being the one nation that didn't fall in the european Scramble and all. Hope they're in again, either on release or at least in expansion/DLC.

 

[Cyon]

Well it seems that I am the only one who voted Benin...
I did so for several reasons :
- rather well-known history
- can have female rulers
- Yorubas are famous for their ruse, which is a rather rare attribute in Civilization (the word Yoruba means astute, smart, playful) - main reason for which I voted for them
- it's an area that has not been explored in Civ yet

The Benin Empire was founded by the Edo/Bini people and is not the same people as the Yoruba!

The Yoruba had many kingdoms but the largest was the Oyo Empire - it world make a good choice for a civ.

My list of new civs in order world be:

1. Kingdom of Kongo (I did the mod for civ 5 and would see it as a personal Victory if they are included!)

2. Ashanti Empire

3. Mali Empire

4. Ethiopia

5. Oyo Empire

6. Morocco/Berber/Almorahvid/Tuareg civ

7. Benin Empire

8. Dahomey

Would have loved Kilwa /Swahili civ but they are confirmed not to be in.

Kano, Sokoto & Katsina should be in as CS.

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[Krajzen]

Regarding Subsaharan Africa, I think Kongo is very likely for vanilla civ6.

As for the expansions, I wanna see:
- Ethiopia (must have)
- Mali (must have)
- Swahilli/Kilwa
- Zimbabwe/Mutapa instead of Zulu.

Oh btw regarding Zulu:

Spoiler :

Link to video.

 

[Guandao]

It looks like Kongo will be in the vanilla game or at least one of the four DLCs after the game is released. Leader looks like Afonso (so no Nzinga, she was ruling Ndongo instead irl)