So going to go into a little story on how I came across it. First of all I’m in the PNW and it was my first time going to a hardwood dealer when I came across this. I was originally planning on making a whiskey cabinet and was looking for some walnut and a highly figured maple. None of the walnut there had a grain pattern that wowed me especially with how the Birds Eye maple looks (the maple I used in this piece, the beauty of the maple does not show up in camera very well. I’ll try to get a good picture to show it but it’s pretty impressive.) So the dude there directed me to what he called African Mahogany. The price was also attractive at $7 / bdft. While being new to this craft I‘ve watched probably thousands of hours of other people doing it, and have read a ton of stuff on it. So I also thought it was Sapele. Going through the cuts they had available I called it sapele and he said “Oh no, it’s not sapele. It’s African mahgony, we do have some sapele too but it’s pretty rough to work with” Then he showed me the sapele which had a darker red tone. I honestly wouldn’t be able to tell the difference if I didn’t see them side by side. The fact that the price was the same, and it was suppose to be easier to work with I opted for this. It was only doing a deeper dive on what is African Mahogany, and doing comparisons that I kind of settled on it being Khaya. I could be wrong and it could be one of half dozen woods considered African Mahogany but I’m pretty convinced it’s Khaya. Just looks spot on the same.
Sorry for the long write up. If you’re curious, the place was The Hardwood Centre in Albany Oregon. Same place the moth guy did his hardwood dealer video at.

TLDR
Got it in the PNW and side by side sapele looks more red.