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In Mombasa, players acquire shares of chartered companies based in Mombasa, Cape Town, Saint-Louis and Cairo and spread their trading posts throughout the African continent in order to earn the most money.

Chartered companies were associations formed for the purpose of exploration, trade and colonization, which links them inextricably to a very dark chapter in human history: global colonialism. This period lasted roughly from the 15th century to the middle of the 20th century and is associated with exploitation and slavery. …

Each company track has one or two capital calls. Whenever you move one of your track marker from one space to the next and cross a capital call in the process, you must immediately pay the depicted number of pounds to the bank. Otherwise, your track marker must remain on the space before the capital call. If you reach the last space of a track, your track marker remains there for the rest of the game.

If you use a reward that allows you to move forward on a specific track and you cannot use it completely (because of a capital call which you cannot pay or the end of the track), move your marker as far as possible (if at all) and forfeit the rest. …