The Slamurai thread is a bit too narrow for all of the other frun slammin' and slashin' and stabbin' things out there. Consider this thread >>1193 for all the king fu stuff.
I'm really quite fond of smooth maces.
I'm going to repost the wildly popular African knives from before.
Although calling them melee is probably a bit of a misnomer since at least some of them were used as throwing knives.
Shotel are probably almost a degree of cheating to include in African blades as much as a khopesh is but they're at least as African as the Tuareg swords are.