James,
One thing you might want to look at is cavalry units for Africa - there are actually quite a lot of horses in Ethiopia for one (its in the top ten countries of horses, in 1997 its population of horses was well over a million) and that country had a tradition of using cavalry in its military, especially in very hard to reach areas.
I am in the process of creating a cavalry unit for use in Kenya where there are about 2000 horses that are used mostly for racing, shows, and safaris on horseback. It would be mostly a white Kenyan unit since horse ownership is concentrated among them as a lasting vestige of colonialism there (there are about 32,000 White Kenyans who stayed after it declared independence and are citizens of the country). I will send it to you if you like once I have it done - its a single battalion, basically more like mounted infantry than pure cavalry.
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