The Naama War
core novel 2009 Imaro
Record
| First published | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.53 (38 ratings, collected 2026-08-28) |
| Page count | 335 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
The Naama War is the fourth and final novel in Charles R. Saunders's Imaro saga, published in 2009, more than two decades after the previous installment left the series' central conflicts unresolved. Having at last learned the truth of his own lineage and the forces that have shaped his life since birth, the warrior Imaro is compelled to step out of his role as a solitary fighter and into one of leadership, accepting responsibility for protecting his people against a danger far larger than any single enemy he has faced before. As word spreads of a resurgent, ancient evil rooted in the city of Naama, Imaro and the allies he has gathered throughout his travels across Nyumbani converge on the city, preparing to confront a malevolent force that has festered there for generations and now threatens the whole continent.
Where it sits
- Universe: Imaro
- Series: Imaro core; position 4 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Charles R. Saunders
Notes
- No ISBN recorded: the 2009 Sword & Soul Media edition, printed through Lulu, appears to have been issued without one; the public library of the author's home city catalogues it with no ISBN, and no other source gives one.
- From the series record (Imaro): Founding work of the 'Sword and Soul' subgenre: African-inspired heroic fantasy created explicitly as an alternative to the genre's default pseudo-medieval-European settings. No award wins or nominations could be independently corroborated for this series; it is admitted on documented genre-historical significance (the first African-diaspora sword-and-sorcery hero in the genre, widely cited as founding a subgenre later authors built on) rather than an award record.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Imaro: position 4 of 4: previous The Trail of Bohu (1985)
Sources
- Imaro - Wikipedia
- The Imaro Saga by Charles Saunders (Black Gate)
- https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2020/10/3/imaro-the-naama-war-by-charles-r-saunders
- Halifax Public Libraries catalogue (Sword & Soul Media 2009)
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