There are an awful lot of products out there: PFS scenarios, modules, APs, Player Companion, etc. I'd like to compile a comprehensive list of Mwangi content. I want to know the canon so I can write according to it. Unfortunately, it looks like a lot is spread through the Serpent's Skull AP, which will make it expensive to acquire.
Sargava
Heart of the Jungle
Serpent's Skull AP
...rest??
Several PFS scenarios, with Bloodcove Disguise and Rescue at Azlanti Ridge off the top of my head.
Also, the standalone module River into Darkness.
PFS "Lyrics of Extinction", too
I wonder if every major place with a mystery or something afoot is the subject of a current or planned Paizo publication. Lyrics of Extinction was, and I think the others mentioned were, too. Hmm...
I have not purchased any of the PFS scenarios (except Lyrics) or River of Darkness, yet. Is there Mwangi content in there beyond what is available in Sarvanga and Heart of the Jungle?
At this point I have acquired:
Heart of the Jungle - background book
Sargava - background book
Lyrics of Extinction - we meet two Mwangi natives, one is a guide and the other is a fight. Not much contact with local culture. The rest of the folks are dead. I felt the final encounter with the big bad felt very Avistan-like, I'm afraid:
River of Darkness - no Mwangi humans. Many excellent encounters of other sorts.
Bloodcove disguise - cool story and cool mechanic but no Mwangi culture contact as far as I could tell.
Rescue at Azlant Ridge - very cool story and location, but no human Mwangi culture.
I haven't purchase the Serpent's Skull AP yet, and will update after. The last couple scenarios in that AP look like they don't deal much with human culture anyway, so I am guessing that if I am looking for it, it will be in the first few.
I now have Serpent's Skull 1-4. There is now contact with Mwangi natives and their culture. Not so much, but some, and that's probably OK given the theme of this very cool AP. Very pulpy. After skimming through it, the AP looks like a blast to play for action-adventure types, but it's not really set in the context of Mwangi culture. It's amazing pulp action-adventure.
The fiction is *squarely* set in the culture, however.
Having spent out my entertainment budget for six months, I'm done.
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Several PFS scenarios, with Bloodcove Disguise and Rescue at Azlanti Ridge off the top of my head.
Also, the standalone module River into Darkness.
while not set there, Mists of Mwangi deals with a cool mwangi artifact
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Crucible of Chaos is officially set on the edge of the Mwangi Expanse, although it can be fairly easily relocated to any other suitably remote spot, so might not be what you are looking for.
It does, however, have a Shoggoth in it, so is worth the purchase price for that alone.
Mists of Mwangi has already been mentioned. It's set in Absalom, but there's a fair bit of Mwangi flavour to it. It would make a good initial mini-adventure for a campaign that starts off with the PCs gathering in Absalom and then has them travelling to the Expanse. (At least, that's how I intend to use it, if I ever get the chance to run a Mwangi campaign.)
There's also Encounter at Drowning Stones, which is an atmospheric little scenario that has a lot of potential for expanding into a full-blown Mwangi Expanse adventure.
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In the interests of completeness, PSS 54 Eyes of the Ten II Maze of the Open Road is about 50% set in the Expanse. I don't think parts I, III and IV are though.
Thanks for the mentions of Lyrics of Extinction, Bloodcove Disguise and Rescue at Azlant Ridge. I find it hard to keep up with the various PS Scenarios, and its always nice to learn of more Mwangi Expanse-related material.
I got Encounter at Drowning Stones. It looks good. Pretty much the only contact in any of the scenarios with a bunch of Mwangi humans - most other scenarios have a bunch of crazy apes.
Lyrics of extinction didn't have much Mwangi feel. Bloodcove Disguise is cool, has a cool undercover mechanic, but again, the feel was not particularly local. Rescue at Azlant Ridge had more, not tons, but more in one particular way: