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Black and British
- A Forgotten History
- By: David Olusoga
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 24 hrs and 27 mins
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'[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion.' – Kwasi Kwarteng, Sunday Times In this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing...
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Black and British
- A Forgotten History
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 24 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 20-11-24
- Language: English
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
- By: Philip Gourevitch
- Narrated by: Philip Gourevitch
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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With an introduction by Rory Stewart Winner of the Guardian First Book award, a first-hand account one of the defining outrages of modern history. All at once, as it seemed, something we could have only imagined was upon us - and we could still only imagine it. This is what fascinates me most in...
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
- Narrated by: Philip Gourevitch
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 14-11-24
- Language: English
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African Mythology
- Enthralling Myths, Fables, and Legends from Africa (The Africans)
- By: Billy Wellman
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
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African ideas of how the world began are very different from the story of Genesis. Though the creator god is repeatedly seen as having withdrawn from the world, people often have a very direct and intense relationship with demigods, ancestors, and bush spirits. The entire landscape is permeated by spiritual meanings and inhabited by gods and spirits. While many Africans today formally follow the Christian or Muslim faiths, they often blend these beliefs with traditional lore and rites.
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African Mythology
- Enthralling Myths, Fables, and Legends from Africa (The Africans)
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 15-03-24
- Language: English
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Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire
- By: Drusilla Dunjee Houston
- Narrated by: Rodney Louis Tompkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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Drusilla Dunjee Houston (1876-1941) was a teacher, journalist, and self-taught historian. Inspired by the works of WEB DuBois, Houston undertook a quest to discover African history from an African American perspective. In Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, Houston identifies the Kushite civilization of Sudan, with its capital city Meroe, to be the cradle of humanity.
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WARNING: OLD BOOK
- By Anonymous on 14-06-20
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Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire
- Narrated by: Rodney Louis Tompkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 08-05-20
- Language: English
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Foreign Native
- An African Journey
- By: R. W. Johnson
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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In Foreign Native, RW Johnson looks back with affection and humour on his life in Africa. From schooldays in Durban - fresh off the boat from Merseyside - to later years as an academic, director of the Helen Suzman Foundation and formidable political commentator, he has produced an entertaining and occasionally eye-popping memoir brimming with history, anecdote and insight. Johnson charts his evolution from enthusiastic, left-leaning Africanist to political realist, relating the episodes that influenced his intellectual worldview.
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Foreign Native
- An African Journey
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 23-07-20
- Language: English
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The Republic of Liberia: The Controversial History and Legacy of the West African Nation That Began as an Experimental Colony
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
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In the spring of 1786, an organization was founded in London to provide some aid for destitute blacks and Asians in the British capital who were by then beginning to become conspicuous. Quite a number of them were resettled blacks from the American colonies who aided British forces in the Revolutionary War and found themselves thereafter no longer welcome in the United States. Others were captives, slaves for one reason or another released on the high seas, and other stevedores and sailors washed up on the shore of England.
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The Republic of Liberia: The Controversial History and Legacy of the West African Nation That Began as an Experimental Colony
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 18-09-18
- Language: English
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Blood Diamonds
- The Controversial History of Mining Operations in Africa That Subsidize Conflicts Across the Continent
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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In the past, all diamond mining in Sierra Leone had fallen under the control of the Sierra Leone Selection Trust - or SLST - a private investor body with exclusive rights to mine diamonds in Sierra Leone. By the mid-1950s and 1960s, illegal and illicit mining had taken over large areas of production. Armed groups began to appear, challenging private SLST security, eventually fermenting a situation of anarchy under which regulated and taxed diamond production diminished to a trickle.
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Blood Diamonds
- The Controversial History of Mining Operations in Africa That Subsidize Conflicts Across the Continent
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 10-01-18
- Language: English
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It's Not Just About Running
- Reflections on Life and Change in Egypt
- By: A. I. Shoukry
- Narrated by: Josh Berndt
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
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This book isn't just about running; it's about a runner's reflections on life, change, and the love of running in Egypt. It's a memoir about self-discovery and searching for freedom and love of life. It's about the integration of body, mind, and soul. It's about family and friends, relationships, and work. After witnessing a revolution in Egypt, running twice for the parliamentary elections, and being a former leader of two political parties, the author decided to take a break from politics and start running.
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It's Not Just About Running
- Reflections on Life and Change in Egypt
- Narrated by: Josh Berndt
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 06-03-19
- Language: English
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Boko Haram
- The History of Africa's Most Notorious Terrorist Group
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Wanda J. Dixon McKnight
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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On the morning of April 15, 2004, the world woke up to the extraordinary news of the kidnap in a little known hamlet of Nigeria of some 276, primarily Christian schoolgirls, by the radical militant Nigerian insurgent group Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram
- The History of Africa's Most Notorious Terrorist Group
- Narrated by: Wanda J. Dixon McKnight
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 23-04-15
- Language: English
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The Translator
- By: Daoud Hari
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
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I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me. The young life of Daoud Hari–his friends call him David–has been one of bravery and mesmerizing adventure. He is a living...
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War memories in Darfur
- By Sukuma on 20-07-15
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The Translator
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 18-03-08
- Language: English
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Civilizations of Africa: The History and Culture of the Mbuti (Pygmy)
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
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The indigenous Africans known as pygmies have interested outsiders for thousands of years. In the 2200s BC, the Egyptian pharaoh Pepi II referred to one as a "dancing dwarf of the god from the land of spirits", and the Ancient Greeks were also familiar with them. Today, of course, anthropologists know a lot more about the pygmies, a collective of indigenous groups in Africa who are still defined by the fact that they have an average height of less than five feet tall.
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Civilizations of Africa: The History and Culture of the Mbuti (Pygmy)
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Release date: 02-07-15
- Language: English
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The Fight for Zimbabwe
- The History and Legacy of the British Empire's Attempt to Establish a Colony in the 19th Century
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
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The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismark, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. This event - known as the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 - galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the Scramble for Africa.
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The Fight for Zimbabwe
- The History and Legacy of the British Empire's Attempt to Establish a Colony in the 19th Century
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Release date: 24-03-20
- Language: English
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Nigeria [Spanish Edition]
- Perfil social, político y cultural [Social, Political and Cultural Profile]
- By: Online Studio Productions
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 51 mins
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Este pequeño país del oeste africano se caracteriza por la confluencia de elementos opuestos: su territorio no llega al millón de kilómetros cuadrados, pero alberga una de las naciones más pobladas del continente.
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Nigeria [Spanish Edition]
- Perfil social, político y cultural [Social, Political and Cultural Profile]
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 51 mins
- Release date: 13-03-15
- Language: Spanish
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Our Gigantic Zoo
- A German Quest to Save the Serengeti
- By: Thomas M. Lekan
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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In the 1950s, Grimzek and his son Michael began a quest to save the Serengeti from modernization by remaking an imperial game reserve into a gigantic zoo for the earth's last great mammals. Grzimek, well-known to German audiences through his long-running television program, A Place for Animals, used the film Seregenti Shall Not Die to convince ordinary Europeans that they could save nature. Yet their message sidestepped the uncomfortable legacies of German colonial exploitation in the region that had endangered animals and excluded local people.
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Our Gigantic Zoo
- A German Quest to Save the Serengeti
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 21-04-20
- Language: English
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Indigo
- In Search of the Color That Seduced the World
- By: Catherine E. McKinley
- Narrated by: Tracey Farrar
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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Brimming with rich, electrifying tales of the precious dye and its ancient heritage, Indigo is also the story of a personal quest: Catherine McKinley is the descendant of a clan of Scots who wore indigo tartan; Jewish "rag traders"; a Massachusetts textile factory owner; and African slaves - her ancestors were traded along the same Saharan routes as indigo, where a length of blue cotton could purchase human life.
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Unbearable narration!
- By james palmer on 02-06-19
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Indigo
- In Search of the Color That Seduced the World
- Narrated by: Tracey Farrar
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 26-02-13
- Language: English
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Histoire générale de l'Algérie
- By: Henri Garrot
- Narrated by: Lluís Pujol
- Length: 26 hrs and 9 mins
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Plongeon vertigineux au cœur de l’histoire du Maghreb, Histoire générale de l’Algérie d’Henri Garrot retrace, avec une clarté rare et une ampleur épique, la longue chaîne des civilisations qui ont façonné l’Algérie et la Berbérie: des Phéniciens, Carthaginois et Romains aux Vandales, Byzantins, Arabes, dynasties berbères, jusqu’aux grands basculements médiévaux. On y traverse ports antiques, routes caravanières, sièges titanesques, révoltes et essors religieux; s’y croisent Massinissa, Jugurtha, Augustin, la Kahina, les Fatimides, Almoravides et Almohades.
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Histoire générale de l'Algérie
- Narrated by: Lluís Pujol
- Length: 26 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 25-09-25
- Language: French
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Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa
- Narrated by: Joseph Tabler
- Length: 45 mins
- Release date: 06-11-24
- Language: English
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El Frente Polisario
- Desde sus orígenes hasta la actualidad
- By: Carlos Ruiz Miguel
- Narrated by: Miguel Coll
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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Idolatrado por unos, calumniado por otros, desconocido para la mayoría, ¿qué es en realidad el Frente Polisario? El Frente Polisario es la organización creada para liberar al Sahara Occidental del colonialismo. Idolatrado o calumniado, se habla mucho del Frente, pero se le conoce poco. A menudo los mismos que afirman que la relación con Marruecos es de la máxima importancia en la política exterior española desconocen o fomentan el desconocimiento sobre el Frente Polisario, a pesar de que éste es una de las preocupaciones máximas de la política exterior de Marruecos.
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El Frente Polisario
- Desde sus orígenes hasta la actualidad
- Narrated by: Miguel Coll
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 14-12-22
- Language: Spanish
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Exile Child:
- Sarah Bartmaan: The Hottentot Venus
- By: Suzanne Franco
- Narrated by: Malika Ndlovu
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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Based on a true story, Exile Child conveys the pain, heartache and inner strength of Sarah Bartmann (the Hottentot Venus) in a way that will leave you feeling both angry at the less glorious side of history and also humbled by a sense of wonder at how anyone could tolerate a life of slavery without losing that most precious of human needs...hope.
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Exile Child:
- Sarah Bartmaan: The Hottentot Venus
- Narrated by: Malika Ndlovu
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 13-12-22
- Language: English
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Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience
- My Story of the 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings
- By: Prudence Bushnell
- Narrated by: Kaci Richter
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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On August 7, 1998, three years before President George W. Bush declared the War on Terror, the radical Islamist group al-Qaeda bombed the American embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, where Prudence Bushnell was serving as U.S. ambassador. Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience is her account of what happened, how it happened, and its impact 20 years later. When the bombs went off in Kenya and neighboring Tanzania that day, Congress was in recess and the White House, along with the entire country, was focused on the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
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Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience
- My Story of the 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings
- Narrated by: Kaci Richter
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 19-06-19
- Language: English
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