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The Lumumba Plot
- The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
- By: Stuart A. Reid
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
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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....
By: Stuart A. Reid
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It's a Continent
- Unravelling Africa's History One Country at a Time
- By: Astrid Madimba, Chinny Ukata
- Narrated by: Astrid Madimba, Chinny Ukata
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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It's a Continent aims to counter the misconception that Africa is a country by breaking down this vast, beautiful and complex continent into regions and countries....
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knowledge
- By Kimberley Pearce on 04-02-24
By: Astrid Madimba, and others
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Born in Blackness
- Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
- By: Howard W. French
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Incredible
- By Akin Wright on 01-05-23
By: Howard W. French
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Dictatorland
- The Men Who Stole Africa
- 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....
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The way it was read.
- By Lucia on 26-01-24
By: Paul Kenyon
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Against Decolonization
- Taking African Agency Seriously
- By: Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
- Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Decolonization has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West's direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing "morality" or "authenticity;" it suffocates African thought and denies African agency....
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Deep and hard hitting
- By Amazon Customer on 30-12-23
By: Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
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To Catch a Dictator
- The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré
- By: Reed Brody
- Narrated by: Reed Brody
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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What does it take to make a dictator answer for his crimes? Hissene Habre, the former despot of Chad, terrorized, tortured, and killed on a horrific scale over eight years in power—while enjoying full American and Western support....
By: Reed Brody
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The Lumumba Plot
- The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
- 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....
By: Stuart A. Reid
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It's a Continent
- Unravelling Africa's History One Country at a Time
- By: Astrid Madimba, Chinny Ukata
- Narrated by: Astrid Madimba, Chinny Ukata
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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It's a Continent aims to counter the misconception that Africa is a country by breaking down this vast, beautiful and complex continent into regions and countries....
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knowledge
- By Kimberley Pearce on 04-02-24
By: Astrid Madimba, and others
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Born in Blackness
- Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
- By: Howard W. French
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Incredible
- By Akin Wright on 01-05-23
By: Howard W. French
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Dictatorland
- The Men Who Stole Africa
- 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....
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The way it was read.
- By Lucia on 26-01-24
By: Paul Kenyon
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Against Decolonization
- Taking African Agency Seriously
- By: Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
- Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Decolonization has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West's direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing "morality" or "authenticity;" it suffocates African thought and denies African agency....
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Deep and hard hitting
- By Amazon Customer on 30-12-23
By: Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
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To Catch a Dictator
- The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré
- By: Reed Brody
- Narrated by: Reed Brody
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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What does it take to make a dictator answer for his crimes? Hissene Habre, the former despot of Chad, terrorized, tortured, and killed on a horrific scale over eight years in power—while enjoying full American and Western support....
By: Reed Brody
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Birth of a Dream Weaver
- A Writer's Awakening
- By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- Narrated by: Benjamin A. Onyango
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of the world’s greatest writers, the story of how the author found his voice as a novelist at Makerere University in Uganda....
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Fascinating story, superb reading
- By Roland McMorran on 22-01-22
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Do Not Disturb
- The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
- By: Michela Wrong
- Narrated by: Michela Wrong
- Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
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A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after one of the deadliest genocides of the 20th century....
By: Michela Wrong
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Gangster State
- Unravelling Ace Magashule’s Web of Capture
- By: Pieter-Louis Myburgh
- Narrated by: Marcel van Heerden
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
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In spite of Cyril Ramaphosa’s ‘new dawn’, there are powerful forces in the ruling party that risk losing everything if corruption and state capture finally do come to an end....
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South Africa is in trouble
- By p.b on 10-03-24
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The Super-Afrikaners
- Inside the Afrikaner Broederbond
- By: Hans Strydom, Ivor Wilkins
- Narrated by: Anton Engelen
- Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins
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The Super-Afrikaners, originally published in 1978, scandalised a nation as it exposed the secret workings of the Broederbond....
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Remarkable Influence
- By MD on 06-04-24
By: Hans Strydom, and others
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Congo Stories
- Battling Five Centuries of Exploitation and Greed
- By: John Prendergast, Fidel Bafilemba, Ryan Gosling - photographer, and others
- Narrated by: John Prendergast, Channie Waites, Jerome Butler, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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John Prendergast co-writes a compelling book with Fidel Bafilemba revealing the way in which the people and resources of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been used throughout the last five centuries to build, develop, advance, and safeguard the United States and Europe....
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A great eye-opener
- By Jussie on 17-06-20
By: John Prendergast, and others
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Summary of Mitchell Zuckoff's 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi
- By: Ant Hive Media
- Narrated by: Tom Johnson
- Length: 33 mins
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This book presents the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound....
By: Ant Hive Media
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Beneath the Tamarind Tree
- A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram
- By: Isha Sesay
- Narrated by: Isha Sesay
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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The first definitive account of Boko Haram’s abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls, their years in captivity, and why this story still matters - by celebrated international journalist Isha Sesay....
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brilliant book
- By Amazon Customer on 08-07-22
By: Isha Sesay
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
- Stories from Rwanda
- By: Philip Gourevitch
- Narrated by: Philip Gourevitch
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity....
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To End a Plague
- America's Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa
- By: Emily Bass
- Narrated by: Catherine Ho
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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With his 2003 announcement of a program known as PEPFAR, George W. Bush launched an astonishingly successful American war against a global pandemic. PEPFAR played a key role in slashing HIV cases and AIDS deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, leading to the brink of epidemic control....
By: Emily Bass
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Black Africa
- The Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State
- By: Cheikh Diop
- Narrated by: Malik Johnson
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
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In "Black Africa: The Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State," Senegalese scholar Cheikh Anta Diop boldly calls for the unification of Black African nations.....
By: Cheikh Diop
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A Rope from the Sky
- The Making and Unmaking of the World's Newest State
- By: Zach Vertin
- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
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The birth of South Sudan was celebrated the world round. But the celebration would not last. Drawing on extraordinary personal stories of identity, liberation, and survival, this narrative tells an epic story of paradise won and then lost....
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Key to understanding South Sudan & failing states
- By Amazon Customer on 01-04-23
By: Zach Vertin
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Between Good and Evil
- The Stolen Girls of Boko Haram
- By: Mellissa Fung
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers meets Under an Afghan Sky in this mesmerizing true story of the Nigerian girls taken captive by the terrorist group Boko Haram....
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Outstanding
- By Christina Ford on 13-05-23
By: Mellissa Fung
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The REAL Benghazi Story
- What the White House and Hillary Don't Want You to Know
- By: Aaron Klein
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Bigger than Watergate! Bigger than Iran-Contra! Ten times bigger than both, said one representative. The Bengahzi scandal may have been covered up by the White House, but the truth is about to come out....
By: Aaron Klein
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The Fall of the University of Cape Town
- Africa’s Leading University in Decline
- By: David Benatar
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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Destructive forces have been eroding the University of Cape Town, Africa’s leading university. This audiobook tells the sad, true tale of what has been transpiring....
By: David Benatar
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Will Africa Feed China?
- By: Deborah Brautigam
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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In Will Africa Feed China?, Deborah Brautigam, one of the world's leading experts on China and Africa, probes the myths and realities behind the media headlines....
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Blood Ransom
- Stories From the Front Line in the War Against Somali Piracy
- By: John Boyle
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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For the first time in history, the navies of the world have united against a common enemy - a couple of thousand rag-tag, underfed men and boys in the western Indian Ocean....
By: John Boyle
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Until We Have Won Our Liberty
- South Africa After Apartheid
- By: Evan Lieberman
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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Countering much of the conventional wisdom about contemporary South Africa, Until We Have Won Our Liberty offers hope for the enduring impact of democratic ideals....
By: Evan Lieberman
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Africká zima
- V Jižním Súdánu s Lékaři bez hranic
- By: Tomáš Šebek
- Narrated by: Lukáš Hlavica
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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Autentická zpověď českého chirurga Tomáše Šebka z mise v Jižním Súdánu Jižní Súdán, nejmladší stát světa, už celá...
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Pecka!
- By Anonymous User on 23-08-20
By: Tomáš Šebek