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26. Kuhani & 27. Mtawala. These are simple compound pieces combining Bishop and Rook, respectively, with the Zebra.
Of course, while there are extant symbols in Board Painter for Camel compounds, there's nothing for Zebra compounds, so I improvised a bit.
I was actually quite surprised to find that, with the Archbishop and Chancellor having long histories and the Caliph and Canvasser having been around for a while, nothing seemed to be around to combine the Zebra. Since Knight pieces yielded European imagery and Camel pieces yielded Arabic, I thought the Zebra probably should do for the Savannahs of eastern Africa, where Swahili is the dominant language. Thus, the Kuhani (Swahili for "Priest") comes as a BZ, and the Mtawala (Swahili for "Governor" or "Administrator") comes as an RZ.
I initially was just looking for these based on a vague concept I had, but have now set aside. Seeing that these have been neglected so much, I plan to include them in as many future variants as I reasonably can.
(I'm taking tomorrow off from posting these, and I may make a regular practice of posting a related pair on Saturday and skipping Sunday.)