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Africa Is Not a Country
- Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa
- By: Dipo Faloyin
- Narrated by: Dipo Faloyin
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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A kaleidoscopic portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story, Africa Is Not a Country brings the story of the continent towards reality....
By: Dipo Faloyin
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....
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Essential Reading (Listening) by ALL Human Beings
- By Watch John Pilger on johnpilger dot com on 11-01-20
By: Walter Rodney, and others
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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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David Olusoga's Black and British is a rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa....
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Fantastically detailed Exceptionally informative
- By lionel on 30-04-17
By: David Olusoga
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Long Walk to Freedom
- The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- 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....
By: Nelson Mandela
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Egyptian Mythology
- Traditions and Myths from Ancient Egypt
- By: History Academy
- Narrated by: Leonard Grey
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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History Academy’s brand-new audiobook about Egyptian mythology will tell you all about ancient Egyptian divinities, pharaohs, and legendary creatures....
By: History Academy
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A Handful of Hard Men
- The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
- By: Hannes Wessels
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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It is difficult to find another soldier's story to equal Captain Darrell Watt's in terms of time spent on the field of battle and challenges faced....
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Great story, awful narration
- By Derek A. de la Harpe on 19-06-18
By: Hannes Wessels
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Africa Is Not a Country
- Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa
- By: Dipo Faloyin
- Narrated by: Dipo Faloyin
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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A kaleidoscopic portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story, Africa Is Not a Country brings the story of the continent towards reality....
By: Dipo Faloyin
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....
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Essential Reading (Listening) by ALL Human Beings
- By Watch John Pilger on johnpilger dot com on 11-01-20
By: Walter Rodney, and others
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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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David Olusoga's Black and British is a rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa....
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Fantastically detailed Exceptionally informative
- By lionel on 30-04-17
By: David Olusoga
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Long Walk to Freedom
- The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- 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....
By: Nelson Mandela
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Egyptian Mythology
- Traditions and Myths from Ancient Egypt
- By: History Academy
- Narrated by: Leonard Grey
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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History Academy’s brand-new audiobook about Egyptian mythology will tell you all about ancient Egyptian divinities, pharaohs, and legendary creatures....
By: History Academy
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A Handful of Hard Men
- The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
- By: Hannes Wessels
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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It is difficult to find another soldier's story to equal Captain Darrell Watt's in terms of time spent on the field of battle and challenges faced....
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Great story, awful narration
- By Derek A. de la Harpe on 19-06-18
By: Hannes Wessels
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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
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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....
By: Howard W. French
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African Origin of Civilization - The Myth or Reality
- 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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Review
- By Mubayiwa T on 02-02-21
By: Cheikh Anta Diop
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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 1 min
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A new book from the award-winning author of In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz, Do Not Disturb explores the controversial career of Paul Kagame and the legacy of the Rwandan genocide....
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Excellent, thought provoking.
- By Richard on 26-12-21
By: Michela Wrong
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Dictatorland
- By: Paul Kenyon
- Narrated by: Hamilton McLeod
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
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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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Some embarrassing lapses in research
- By Wilhelm Snyman on 20-08-20
By: Paul Kenyon
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Rorke's Drift
- By: Adrian Greaves
- Narrated by: Paul Herzberg
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
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On 22nd January 1879 a force of 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed and destroyed the British invading force at Isandlwana, killing and ritually disemboweling more than 1,200 troops. That afternoon, the same Zulu force turned their attention on a small outpost at Rorke's Drift....
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Rorke’s Drift very repetitive making a great story dull. Fast forward is the only option
- By The Hon T A Fitzherbert on 15-05-22
By: Adrian Greaves
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
- A Memoir of Africa
- By: Peter Godwin
- Narrated by: Peter Godwin
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a stirring memoir of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country. But it is also a vivid portrait of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love....
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wonderful.
- By Mr S. on 03-03-22
By: Peter Godwin
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The Great Sea
- A Human History of the Mediterranean
- By: David Abulafia
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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For over 3,000 years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilisation....
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Enjoyable & informative
- By Julian Hughes on 03-11-20
By: David Abulafia
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My Fourth Time, We Drowned
- Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
- By: Sally Hayden
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
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The Western world has turned its back on refugees, fuelling one of the most devastating human rights disasters in history....
By: Sally Hayden
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We Dared to Win
- The SAS in Rhodesia
- By: Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers - with
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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In addition to Andre Scheepers' personal story, this book reveals more about some of the other men who were distinguished operators in SAS operations during the Rhodesian War....
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A Remarkable Book
- By Iolis on 15-04-20
By: Hannes Wessels, and others
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White Malice
- The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
- 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....
By: Susan Williams
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Destruction of Black Civilization
- Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D.
- By: Chancellor Williams
- Narrated by: Joseph Kent
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
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The Destruction of Black Civilization is revelatory and revolutionary because it offers a new approach to the research, teaching, and study of African history by shifting the main focus from the history of Arabs and Europeans in Africa to the Africans themselves....
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Annoying Narration, better to read
- By Amazon Customer on 21-07-20
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Like Wolves on the Fold
- The Defense of Rorke's Drift
- By: Lieutenant Colonel Mike Snook, Lieutenant Colonel Huw Lloyd-Jones - foreword
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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On January 22, 1879, the British Army in South Africa was swept aside by the seemingly unstoppable Zulu warriors at the Battle of Isandlwana....
By: Lieutenant Colonel Mike Snook, and others
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The Great Anglo-Boer War
- By: Byron Farwell
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 23 hrs and 24 mins
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The Great Boer War (1899-1902) - more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War - was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence....
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Well Written Badly Narrated
- By Lee Cobb on 12-02-19
By: Byron Farwell
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How Can Man Die Better
- The Secrets of Isandlwana Revealed
- By: Lieutenant Colonel Mike Snook, Brigadier David Keenan - foreword
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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On January 22, 1879, a massive Zulu host attacked the British Army's 24th Regiment in its encampment at the foot of the mountain of Isandlwana. It was the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War and a disastrous defeat for the colonial power....
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superb a definitive account
- By Charles Palmer on 15-03-22
By: Lieutenant Colonel Mike Snook, and others
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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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In 1994, the Rwandan government orchestrated a campaign of extermination, in which everyone in the Hutu majority was called upon to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority....
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Harrowing and painful, yet brilliantly written.
- By Wez on 18-02-22
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A Fatherless People
- The Secret Story of How the Nigerians Missed the Road to the Promised Land
- By: Dele Ogun
- Narrated by: Dele Ogun
- Length: 13 hrs
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A Fatherless People: The Secret Story of How the Nigerians Missed the Road to the Promised Land tells the story of Nigeria from its early conceptualization by British colonialists in the aftermath of the abolition of the slave trade up to the present day....
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Comprehensive Nigerian history
- By Olajide on 24-12-19
By: Dele Ogun
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Tip and Run
- The Untold Tragedy of the First World War in Africa
- By: Edward Paice
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 19 hrs and 46 mins
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The Great War's East Africa campaign was, and remains, of huge importance. A 'small war', consisting of a few 'local affairs', was all that was expected in August 1914 as Britain moved to eliminate the threat to the high seas of German naval bases in Africa....
By: Edward Paice
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Barbarians
- By: Stephen P. Kershaw
- Narrated by: John Banks
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
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History is written by the victors, and Rome had some very eloquent historians. Those the Romans regarded as barbarians left few records of their own, but they had a tremendous impact on the Roman imagination....
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The Golden Rhinoceros
- Histories of the African Middle Ages
- By: François-Xavier Fauvelle, Troy Tice - translator
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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A leading historian reconstructs the forgotten history of medieval Africa....
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Highly recommended
- By Anonymous User on 01-04-22
By: François-Xavier Fauvelle, and others
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Ancient African Kingdoms
- A Captivating Guide to Civilizations of Ancient Africa Such as the Land of Punt, Carthage, the Kingdom of Aksum, the Mali Empire, and the Kingdom of Kush
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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Africa is the continent where the first humans were born. They explored the vast land and produced the first tools. And although we migrated from that continent, we never completely abandoned it....
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all over the place
- By Spinolaola on 12-03-21
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Scribbling the Cat
- Travels with an African Soldier
- By: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger"....
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As an ex-Rhodie, both Northern and Southern ....
- By Amanda on 05-07-15
By: Alexandra Fuller
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In God's Path
- The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
- 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 Fascinating Read
- By thomas on 19-02-16
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White Gold
- By: Giles Milton
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and 52 of his comrades were captured at sea....
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Insightful and extremely interesting
- By Anonymous User on 05-09-17
By: Giles Milton
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Mukiwa
- A White Boy in Africa
- By: Peter Godwin
- Narrated by: Peter Godwin
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
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Rhodesia, 1964: a small boy witnesses the death of his neighbor, murdered by guerrillas - it is the beginning of the end of White rule in Africa. In Mukiwa, Peter Godwin, the witness to that murder, has written a vivid, moving account of growing up in a colony rapidly collapsing....
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An excellent story of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe
- By Robert Spencer on 10-11-19
By: Peter Godwin
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The Emergency Bouzouki Player is the true story of a teenage conscript railroaded into the South African army for two years of national service at the height of the Apartheid War. The cruelty, the absurdity, and the mindlessness of life in the South African army are candidly described in this firsthand account by an unwilling and resentful conscript who, to escape the infamous Diskobolos Infantry Training Camp and its murderous instructors, claimed he could play the bouzouki in a subterfuge that was to have unforeseen, comical, and sometimes life-threatening consequences.
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"The West will begin to understand Africa when it realizes it’s not talking to a child—it’s talking to its mother.” So writes Jeff Pearce in the introduction to his fascinating, groundbreaking work, The Gifts of Africa: How a Continent and Its People Changed the World. We learn early on in school how Europe and Asia gave us important literature, science, and art, and how their nations changed the course of history. But what about Africa?
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"The West will begin to understand Africa when it realizes it’s not talking to a child—it’s talking to its mother.” So writes Jeff Pearce in the introduction to his fascinating, groundbreaking work, The Gifts of Africa: How a Continent and Its People Changed the World. We learn early on in school how Europe and Asia gave us important literature, science, and art, and how their nations changed the course of history. But what about Africa?
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Wildlife and Warfare
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More than any other individual, James Stevenson-Hamilton can be credited with the creation of the Kruger National Park in South Africa. In 1902, when the South African War ended, Stevenson-Hamilton swopped his military career for the more uncertain calling of a game warden. Under his supervision the small, neglected, and war-ravaged Sabi Game Reserve expanded in stature and size. By the time he retired in 1946, the Kruger National Park had become as one of the great national parks of the world.
By: Jane Carruthers
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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
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Born in Blackness vitally reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in the West, and the fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals all grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent. In fact, French reveals, the first impetus for the Age of Discovery was not—as we are so often told, even today—Europe's yearning for ties with Asia, but rather its centuries-old desire to forge a trade in gold with legendarily rich Black societies in the heart of West Africa.
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Africa Is Not a Country
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Africa Is Not a Country is a kaleidoscopic portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story. You already know these stereotypes. So often Africa is depicted simplistically as an arid red landscape of famines and safaris, uniquely plagued by poverty and strife. In this funny and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, creating a fresh and multifaceted view of this vast continent.
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Rogues’ Gallery
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- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In August 2018, Sally Hayden received a Facebook message. ‘Hi sister Sally, we need your help,’ it read. ‘We are under bad condition in Libya prison. If you have time, I will tell you all the story.’ More messages followed from more refugees. They told stories of enslavement and trafficking, torture and murder, tuberculosis and sexual abuse. And they revealed something else: that they were all incarcerated as a direct result of European policy.
By: Sally Hayden
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Rwandan Genocide
- Hutus, Tutsis, and United Nations Soldiers
- By: Kelly Mass
- Narrated by: Doug Greene
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
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I guess during the time I was struggling with middle school peers and worried about what other girls thought of my clothes, something nasty happened approximately 6,500 miles away, which is only an eight-hour flight from where I used to live. Who would have thought that even in the 90s, such atrocities would be committed? The movie Hotel Rwanda has depicted some sad displays of human cruelty, although the brutality of it has mostly been censored for the sake of wider audiences.
By: Kelly Mass
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Hannibal
- Rome’s Greatest Enemy
- By: Philip Freeman
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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More than 2,000 years ago one of the greatest military leaders in history almost destroyed Rome. Hannibal, a daring African general from the city of Carthage, led an army of warriors and battle elephants over the snowy Alps to invade the very heart of Rome's growing empire. But what kind of person would dare to face the most relentless imperial power of the ancient world? How could Hannibal, consistently outnumbered and always deep in enemy territory, win battle after battle until he held the very fate of Rome within his grasp?
By: Philip Freeman
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Formation
- The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation
- By: Fola Fagbule, Feyi Fawehinmi
- Narrated by: Elnathan John
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation tracks the unlikely series of events and characters that turned a collection of disparate nations into a British colony in 1914. But the story of Nigeria’s formation begins much earlier, in 1804, when the jihadists launched their attack on countries along the Niger river. What unfolds is a story of conquests and slavery, betrayals and bravery, rivers and riots, victors and vanquished, all of which are central to understanding modern Black struggles.
By: Fola Fagbule, and others