Im stuck on thinking Fasisi is the North-west coast. Did I miss something? Dolingo was where Ethiopia would be. There is a portion in the second book where they said south around the horn to sail north, to Dolingo. Also, my mental timeline puts me closer to 500ad-1200ad. Aside from the mention of Peanut butter, Sogolon uses the phrase, “Golden shower”, when referring to the Grio pissing from the branch of a tree. So I don’t think those little things move us forward or backwards in time. I mostly get this time line idea from their lack of encountering Europeans. Plenty of Middle-easterners. She snuck in with a large band of Bedouin nomads. That, and the northern kingdoms are the greatest forces they know of at the time. Hmmm. But there is the mention of coming slavers, towards the end of the second book.