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Bestsellers
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An African History of Africa
- From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
- Written by: Zeinab Badawi
- Narrated by: Zeinab Badawi
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Already a major international bestseller, Zeinab Badawi’s sweeping and much-needed survey of African history traces the continent’s extraordinary legacy from prehistory to the present from the African perspective.
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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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US....
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story5 out of 5 stars 58
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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5 out of 5 stars
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So important.
- By Kaitlin M on 2023-03-13
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Into Africa
- The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
- Written by: Martin Dugard
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 46
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Story5 out of 5 stars 44
"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read it many times before but the narrator...
- By GrandTour on 2018-11-25
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Do Not Disturb
- The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
- Written by: Michela Wrong
- Narrated by: Michela Wrong
- Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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....
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 526
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 454
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Story5 out of 5 stars 455
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time....
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5 out of 5 stars
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An intriguing, captivating life of Mandela
- By Lorenzo RS on 2019-08-04
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An African History of Africa
- From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
- Written by: Zeinab Badawi
- Narrated by: Zeinab Badawi
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Story0 out of 5 stars 0
Already a major international bestseller, Zeinab Badawi’s sweeping and much-needed survey of African history traces the continent’s extraordinary legacy from prehistory to the present from the African perspective.
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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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US....
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story5 out of 5 stars 58
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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5 out of 5 stars
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So important.
- By Kaitlin M on 2023-03-13
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Into Africa
- The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
- Written by: Martin Dugard
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 46
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Story5 out of 5 stars 44
"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read it many times before but the narrator...
- By GrandTour on 2018-11-25
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Do Not Disturb
- The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
- Written by: Michela Wrong
- Narrated by: Michela Wrong
- Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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....
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 526
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 454
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Story5 out of 5 stars 455
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time....
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5 out of 5 stars
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An intriguing, captivating life of Mandela
- By Lorenzo RS on 2019-08-04
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Skeletons on the Zahara
- A True Story of Survival
- Written by: Dean King
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of 12 American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Skeletons on the Zahara
- By Conrad Noble on 2022-06-14
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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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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Lumumba
- By Rick Reid on 2024-05-02
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 9
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Story5 out of 5 stars 8
This classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization....
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3 out of 5 stars
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wealth of information, But.
- By jim on 2023-01-23
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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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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
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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5 out of 5 stars
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History repeating itself
- By Dominus on 2024-07-13
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The Ghosts of Cannae
- Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
- Written by: Robert L. O'Connell
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4
For fans of Victor Davis Hanson, Donald Kagan, and Barry Strauss comes a rich, sweeping account of the most imitated---and vicious---battle in history....
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Hannibal
- Rome’s Greatest Enemy
- Written by: Philip Freeman
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 10
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Great History, Strange Narration
- By Johnny Appleseed on 2024-10-21
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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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story5 out of 5 stars 50
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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3 out of 5 stars
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I'm only critiquing the audio and not the story
- By Natalie on 2021-03-28
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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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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
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....
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4 out of 5 stars 8
An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.....
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19
Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....
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When the Tempest Gathers
- From Mogadishu to the Fight Against ISIS, a Marine Special Operations Commander at War
- Written by: Andrew Milburn
- Narrated by: Andrew Milburn
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4
These are the combat experiences of the first Marine to command a special operations task force, recounted against a backdrop of his journey from raw Second Lieutenant to seasoned Colonel and Task Force Commander...
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
- Stories from Rwanda
- Written by: Philip Gourevitch
- Narrated by: Philip Gourevitch
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10
An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity....
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Armies of Sand
- The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness
- Written by: Kenneth M. Pollack
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Since the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight. They have lost many wars that by all rights they should have won, and in their best performances only ever achieved quite modest accomplishments....
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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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Histoire de l’Afrique du XIXe siècle
- Le Siècle des révolutions
- Written by: Anne Hugon
- Narrated by: Anne Hugon
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Les Presses Universitaires de France et Frémeaux & Associés proposent cette histoire de l’Afrique du xixe siècle, analysée et expliquée par Anne Hugon...
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Three Empires on the Nile
- The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1899
- Written by: Dominic Green
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3 out of 5 stars 1
Three Empires on the Nile tells of the rise of the first modern Islamic state and its fateful encounter with the British Empire of Queen Victoria....
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds
- Ebola and the Ravages of History
- Written by: Paul Farmer
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
In 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical desert, where basic health-care facilities were few and far between....
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
- The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
- Written by: Jason Stearns
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Confusing
- By Amazon Customer on 2022-01-23
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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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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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4 out of 5 stars
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Captivating book
- By Brice on 2020-01-10
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African History
- A Very Short Introduction
- Written by: John Parker, Richard Rathbone
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
This VSI, the first concise work of its kind, will prove essential for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history....
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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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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
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....
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African Dominion
- A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
- Written by: Michael Gomez
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 19 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
A groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global history....
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The Bolter
- Written by: Frances Osborne
- Narrated by: Susan Duerden
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
In an age of bolters - women who broke the rules and fled their marriages - Idina Sackville was the most celebrated of them all......
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River of the Gods
- Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
- Written by: Candice Millard
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4 out of 5 stars 6
For millennia the location of the Nile River’s headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the 19th century, there was a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. At the same time, European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing.
- By Graham Henderson on 2023-02-27