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Bestsellers
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Long Walk to Freedom
- The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- Written by: Nelson Mandela
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 27 hrs and 39 mins
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Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time....
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An intriguing, captivating life of Mandela
- By Anonymous User on 2019-08-04
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The Holy Piby
- The Blackman's Bible
- Written by: Robert Athlyi Rogers
- Narrated by: Dennis Logan
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The Holy Piby, a book founded by the holy spirit to deliver the gospel commanded by the almighty God for the full salvation of Ethiopia's posterities....
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King Leopold's Ghost
- A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
- Written by: Adam Hochschild
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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In the late 1890s, Edmund Dene Morel, a young British shipping company agent, noticed something strange about the cargoes of his company's ships....
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I'm only critiquing the audio and not the story
- By Anonymous User on 2021-03-28
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Africa
- The Definitive History of a Continent
- Written by: David Olusoga, DK
- Narrated by: Itoya Osagiede
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Immerse yourself in the intricate story of Africa and discover Africa's true place in world history.
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Born in Blackness
- Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
- Written by: Howard W. French
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
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Born in Blackness reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, anchoring of democracy in the West, and fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent....
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Excellent Overview
- By Anonymous User on 2022-05-22
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White Malice
- The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
- Written by: Susan Williams
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
- Length: 21 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US....
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Long Walk to Freedom
- The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- Written by: Nelson Mandela
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 27 hrs and 39 mins
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Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time....
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An intriguing, captivating life of Mandela
- By Anonymous User on 2019-08-04
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The Holy Piby
- The Blackman's Bible
- Written by: Robert Athlyi Rogers
- Narrated by: Dennis Logan
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The Holy Piby, a book founded by the holy spirit to deliver the gospel commanded by the almighty God for the full salvation of Ethiopia's posterities....
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King Leopold's Ghost
- A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
- Written by: Adam Hochschild
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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In the late 1890s, Edmund Dene Morel, a young British shipping company agent, noticed something strange about the cargoes of his company's ships....
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I'm only critiquing the audio and not the story
- By Anonymous User on 2021-03-28
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Africa
- The Definitive History of a Continent
- Written by: David Olusoga, DK
- Narrated by: Itoya Osagiede
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Immerse yourself in the intricate story of Africa and discover Africa's true place in world history.
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Born in Blackness
- Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
- Written by: Howard W. French
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
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Born in Blackness reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, anchoring of democracy in the West, and fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent....
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Excellent Overview
- By Anonymous User on 2022-05-22
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White Malice
- The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
- Written by: Susan Williams
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
- Length: 21 hrs and 14 mins
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A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US....
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The Boer War
- A Captivating Guide to Its Causes, Battles, and Legacy in South Africa (African History)
- Written by: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
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This riveting narrative unfolds a tumultuous chapter in history where ambition, resilience, and tragedy collide on the sun-scorched plains of South Africa.
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Winnie and Nelson
- Portrait of a Marriage
- Written by: Jonny Steinberg
- Narrated by: Puleng Lange-Stewart
- Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
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Jonny Steinberg tells the tale of this unique marriage—its longings, its obsessions, its deceits—making South African history a captivating political biography. Winnie and Nelson is a modern epic in which trauma doesn’t affect just the couple at its center, but an entire nation....
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The Slave Ship
- A Human History
- Written by: Marcus Rediker
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Slave ships carried millions of people from Africa to the New World. Historian Marcus Rediker draws on 30 years of research to create an unprecedented history of these vessels....
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Cobalt Red
- How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
- Written by: Siddharth Kara
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.
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So important.
- By Anonymous User on 2023-03-13
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Hannibal
- Rome’s Greatest Enemy
- Written by: Philip Freeman
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Hannibal is the biography of a man who, against all odds, dared to change the course of history....
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Great History, Strange Narration
- By Johnny Appleseed on 2024-10-21
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In God's Path
- The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
- Written by: Robert G. Hoyland
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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In just over a hundred years - from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750 - the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East....
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A Dying Colonialism
- Written by: Frantz Fanon
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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A Dying Colonialism is Frantz Fanon’s seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution....
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Carthage Must Be Destroyed
- The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
- Written by: Richard Miles
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
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An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.....
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The 21
- A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs
- Written by: Martin Mosebach
- Narrated by: Creative Orthodox
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes....
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Mansa Musa
- A Captivating Guide to the Emperor of the Islamic Mali Empire in West Africa and How He Developed Timbuktu into a Major Center for Trade
- Written by: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 3 hrs
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In the grand scheme of things, very little is known of Mansa Musa’s life. We know that he was one of the greatest emperors of the Mali Empire. And we know that he was actually one of the richest men of all time due to the enormous gold deposits in West Africa under his dominion....
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In the Company of Heroes
- The True Story of Black Hawk Pilot Michael Durant and the Men Who Fought and Fell at Mogadishu
- Written by: Michael Durant, Steven Hartov
- Narrated by: Michael Durant
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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Piloting a U.S. Army Special Operations Blackhawk, Durant was shot down and captured on October 3, 1993....
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Great story
- By Anonymous User on 2023-07-22
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African Origin of Civilization - The Myth or Reality
- Written by: Cheikh Anta Diop
- Narrated by: Frank Block
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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This classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization....
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wealth of information, But.
- By Anonymous User on 2023-01-23
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The Lumumba Plot
- The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
- Written by: Stuart A. Reid
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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It was supposed to be a moment of great optimism, a cause for jubilation. The Congo was at last being set free from Belgium—one of seventeen countries to gain independence in 1960 from ruling European powers....
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Lumumba
- By Anonymous User on 2024-05-02
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela: Booktrack Edition
- Written by: Nelson Mandela, Sharon Gelman - contributor
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 27 hrs and 10 mins
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Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time. Long Walk to Freedom is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures....
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music annoying
- By Anonymous User on 2018-11-26
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- An African Childhood
- Written by: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....
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Patrice Lumumba
- The Life and Legacy of the Pan-African Politician Who Became Congo’s First Prime Minister
- Written by: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: David Bernard
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
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It was in the nature of Belgium’s withdrawal from Africa that power was essentially handed over to the first in line to receive it. Very little of the careful preparation that characterized the British withdrawal from Africa was evident in Congo....
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Benghazi: Know Thy Enemy
- A Cold Case Investigation
- Written by: Sarah Adams, Dave Benton
- Narrated by: Brian Sears
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Starting on September 11th, 2012, al-Qa'ida carried out a series of terrorist attacks on the U.S. Consulate and CIA Annex in Benghazi, Libya, killing four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens....
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History repeating itself
- By Anonymous User on 2024-07-13
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There Was a Country
- A Personal History of Biafra
- Written by: Chinua Achebe
- Narrated by: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes a long-awaited memoir about coming of age with a fragile new nation, then watching it torn asunder in a tragic civil war....
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Captivating book
- By Anonymous User on 2020-01-10
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Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
- The Forgotten War That Changed American History
- Written by: Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger
- Narrated by: Brian Kilmeade
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
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This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up....
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Unknown Empire
- The True Story of Mysterious Ethiopia and the Future Ark of Civilization
- Written by: Dean W. Arnold
- Narrated by: Dean W. Arnold
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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Unknown Empire offers the little considered thesis that Ethiopia, unknown as a majority Christian nation and the first Christian empire, could be the next epicenter of civilization....
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Apartheid in South Africa: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Segregationist Policies in the 20th Century
- Written by: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
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Although apartheid is typically dated from the late 1940s until its dismantling decades later, segregationist policies had been the norm in South Africa from nearly the moment European explorers sailed to the region and began settling there....
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Kind of like a short textbook...
- By Anonymous User on 2022-03-24
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The Yoruba People
- A Captivating Guide to the History of the Yorubas and Yoruba Mythology
- Written by: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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Learn about one of the largest people groups in Africa! The Yorubas are an interesting people with a rich cultural heritage that can be traced back to many centuries ago. The history of the Yorubas is one of Africa’s most researched and analyzed histories....