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African Europeans
- An Untold History
- Written by: Olivette Otele
- Narrated by: Olivette Otele
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores encounters between those defined as "Africans" and those called "Europeans."
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African Europeans
- An Untold History
- Narrated by: Olivette Otele
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2021-05-04
- Language: English
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Gaddafi's Harem
- The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya
- Written by: Annick Cojean
- Narrated by: Laura Raynor Sauriat
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Soraya was just 15 when she was given the honor of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, the "Guide", on a visit he was making to her school the following week. This one meeting, a presentation of flowers, a pat on the head from Gaddafi, changed Soraya’s life forever. Soon afterwards, she was summoned to Bab al-Azizia, Gaddafi’s palatial compound near Tripoli, where she joined a number of young women who were violently abused, raped and degraded by Gaddafi.
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Gaddafi's Harem
- The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya
- Narrated by: Laura Raynor Sauriat
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2014-02-28
- Language: English
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The Looting Machine
- Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
- Written by: Tom Burgis
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Africa is the world’s poorest continent and, arguably, its richest. In The Looting Machine, Tom Burgis takes listeners on a gripping journey into the world of the magnates and militiamen, the despots and jet-setting executives who gorge on Africa’s vast stocks of oil, gas, metals, and precious stones. Combining deep reporting with an action-packed narrative, Burgis presents a blistering investigation of the plunder of a continent and the terrible human toll.
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The Looting Machine
- Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2025-06-24
- Language: English
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Mandela
- My Prisoner, My Friend
- Written by: Christo Brand
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Christo Brand was an 18-year-old recruit to the South African prison service when he was sent to work at the Robben Island prison. He was assigned to guard Nelson Mandela, who he was told was a dangerous terrorist. Over time, he became friendly with Mandela, even helping his wife Winnie bring in their grandchild for Mandela to hold for the first time.
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Mandela
- My Prisoner, My Friend
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2014-03-10
- Language: English
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Invictus
- Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
- Written by: John Carlin
- Narrated by: Gideon Emery
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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After being released from prison and winning South Africa’s first free election, Nelson Mandela presided over a country still deeply divided by 50 years of apartheid. His plan was ambitious if not far-fetched: use the national rugby team, the Springboks—long an embodiment of white-supremacist rule—to embody and engage a new South Africa as they prepared to host the 1995 World Cup.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Tie-In to the Movie
- By RICHARD E on 2018-09-14
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Invictus
- Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
- Narrated by: Gideon Emery
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2012-06-07
- Language: English
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The Last Colony
- A Tale of Exile, Justice, and Courage
- Written by: Philippe Sands
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Philippe Sands
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The moving, inspiring David-and-Goliath true story of freedom and justice involving one tiny nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa, and the extraordinary woman, a descendent of slaves, who dared to take on the Crown and the United Kingdom—and win a historic victory.
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The Last Colony
- A Tale of Exile, Justice, and Courage
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Philippe Sands
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2023-09-26
- Language: English
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Dictatorland
- The Men Who Stole Africa
- Written by: Paul Kenyon
- Narrated by: Hamilton McLeod
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces. In Equatorial Guinea, the paranoid despot who thought Hitler was the saviour of Africa and waged a relentless campaign of terror against his own people.
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Dictatorland
- The Men Who Stole Africa
- Narrated by: Hamilton McLeod
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2023-07-06
- Language: English
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Rwanda, Inc.
- How a Devastated Nation Became an Economic Model for the Developing World
- Written by: Patricia Crisafulli, Andrea Redmond
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Eighteen years after the genocide that made Rwanda international news, yet left it all but abandoned by the West, the country has achieved a miraculous turnaround. Rising out of the complete devastation of a failed state, Rwanda has emerged on the world stage yet again - this time with a unique model for governance and economic development under the leadership of its strong and decisive president, Paul Kagame. Here, Patricia Crisafulli and Andrea Redmond look at Kagame’s leadership.
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Rwanda, Inc.
- How a Devastated Nation Became an Economic Model for the Developing World
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2012-12-24
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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The defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967-1970. The conflict was infamous for its savage impact on the Biafran people, Chinua Achebe's people, many of whom were starved to death after the Nigerian government blockaded their borders. Immediately after, Achebe took refuge in an academic post in the United States, and for more than 40 years he has maintained a considered silence on the events of those terrible years. Now, decades in the making, comes a towering reckoning with one of modern Africa's most fateful events.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Captivating book
- By Brice on 2020-01-10
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There Was a Country
- A Personal History of Biafra
- Narrated by: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2012-10-11
- Language: English
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Strength in What Remains
- A Journey of Remembrance and Forgetting
- Written by: Tracy Kidder
- Narrated by: Tracy Kidder
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of a hero for our time. Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man’s remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him–a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances.
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Strength in What Remains
- A Journey of Remembrance and Forgetting
- Narrated by: Tracy Kidder
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2009-08-25
- Language: English
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The Darker Nations
- A People's History of the Third World
- Written by: Vijay Prashad, Howard Zinn - editor
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Here, from a brilliant young writer, is a paradigm-shifting history of both a utopian concept and global movement - the idea of the Third World. The Darker Nations traces the intellectual origins and the political history of the 20th century attempt to knit together the world's impoverished countries in opposition to the United States and Soviet spheres of influence in the decades following World War II.
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The Darker Nations
- A People's History of the Third World
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2021-10-19
- Language: English
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Sufferings in Africa
- Written by: James Riley
- Narrated by: Brian Emerson
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In this classic tale of adventure, a young American sea captain named James Riley, shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in 1815, was captured by a band of nomadic Arabs and sold into slavery. Thus begins an epic adventure of survival and a quest for freedom that takes him across the Sahara desert.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting
- By Anonymous on 2023-03-07
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Sufferings in Africa
- Narrated by: Brian Emerson
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2005-12-12
- Language: English
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The Moors of the Maghreb
- The History of the Muslims in North Africa During the Middle Ages
- Written by: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The term Moor is a historical rather than an ethnic name. It is an invention of European Christians for the Islamic inhabitants of Maghreb (North Africa), Andalusia (Spain), Sicily and Malta, and was sometimes use to designate all Muslims. It is derived from Mauri, the Latin name for the Berbers who lived in the Roman province of Mauretania, which ranged across modern Algeria and Morocco. Saracen was another European term used to designate Muslims, though it usually referred to the Arabic peoples of the Middle East.
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The Moors of the Maghreb
- The History of the Muslims in North Africa During the Middle Ages
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Release date: 2021-09-22
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3
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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. Whether it was displacing and fighting indigenous groups like the Khoi and San, or fighting other whites like the Boer, separation between ethnicities was the norm in South Africa for centuries before the election of Malan signaled the true rise of the Afrikaner far right.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Kind of like a short textbook...
- By Joshua Neumann on 2022-03-24
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Apartheid in South Africa: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Segregationist Policies in the 20th Century
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2019-04-15
- Language: English
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A Thousand Hills
- Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
- Written by: Stephen Kinzer
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Paul Kagame grew up as a wretched refugee. He and a group of comrades, determined to force their way back home after a generation of exile, designed one of the most audacious covert operations in the history of clandestine war. Then, after taking power, they amazed the world by stabilizing and reviving their devastated country.
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A Thousand Hills
- Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2009-10-29
- Language: English
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The Great Pyramid of Giza: A History from Beginning to Present
- Written by: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Al Henderson
- Length: 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Ancient Egypt has mystified and entranced generation after generation. The Egyptians' mastery of architecture, their complex religious ideologies, and their peculiar views on death have given modern-day readers much to ponder. Few, if any, of their remaining relics have produced the awe and spectacular wonder of the Great Pyramids of Giza. These three architectural masterpieces have stood for more than 5,000 years despite looting, exploitation, and the slow erosion of time.
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The Great Pyramid of Giza: A History from Beginning to Present
- Narrated by: Al Henderson
- Length: 59 mins
- Release date: 2018-04-12
- Language: English
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War Child
- A Child Soldier's Story
- Written by: Emmanuel Jal
- Narrated by: Ademola Adeyemo
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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In the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven-year-old Sudanese boy, living in a small village with his parents, aunts, uncles, and siblings. But as Sudan's civil war moved closer - with the Islamic government seizing tribal lands for water, oil, and other resources - Jal's family moved again and again, seeking peace. Then, on one terrible day, Jal was separated from his mother. Soon, Jal was conscripted into that army, one of 10,000 child soldiers, and fought through two separate civil wars over nearly a decade.
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War Child
- A Child Soldier's Story
- Narrated by: Ademola Adeyemo
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2009-02-03
- Language: English
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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures
- Written by: J. H. Patterson
- Narrated by: Christopher Romance
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1898, the British were building a railway line between Mombasa in Kenya and Uganda. At the Tsavo River in Kenya where a bridge needed to be built, the project was suddenly interrupted by two man-eating lions that targeted the camps of the workers. Over a period of nine months, the lions killed scores of people. These lions were deliberately hunting people, preferring humans over any other prey, and they seemed to have supernatural abilities in evading all attempts to stop them. Colonel J.H. Patterson, the chief engineer in charge of the project, finally managed to eliminate them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pretty great.
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-11-01
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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures
- Narrated by: Christopher Romance
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2020-03-10
- Language: English
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History of West Africa
- A Captivating Guide to West African History, Starting from Ancient Civilizations Through the Medieval Period to the Present
- Written by: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
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Beginning in prehistoric times, West Africa has always been an incredible region. Early nomadic tribes settled into some of the earliest communities on Earth and learned how to work with metal. Various West African tribes then became adept at working with metal and were some of the most skilled artisans in the world. As civilizations developed in West Africa, nomadic tribes turned into urban societies that built kingdoms. Eventually, some of the greatest leaders in the world created mighty West African empires.
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History of West Africa
- A Captivating Guide to West African History, Starting from Ancient Civilizations Through the Medieval Period to the Present
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2022-08-16
- Language: English
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