Best Sellers
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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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Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves....
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Every one should be aware
- By P N RAMASWAMI on 22-04-24
Written by: Siddharth Kara
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A Short History of South Africa
- Written by: Gail Nattrass
- Narrated by: Sarah Jane Woodward
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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South Africa is popularly perceived as the most influential nation in Africa - a gateway to an entire continent for finance, trade and politics, and a crucial mediator in its neighbours’ affairs....
Written by: Gail Nattrass
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Africa Is Not a Country
- Notes on a Bright Continent
- Written by: Dipo Faloyin
- Narrated by: Dipo Faloyin
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, weaving a vibrant tapestry of stories....
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Super insightful
- By Sahil Bihari on 19-02-24
Written by: Dipo Faloyin
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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....
Written by: Paul Kenyon
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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
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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....
Written by: J. H. Patterson
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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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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....
Written by: Philip Freeman
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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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Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves....
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Every one should be aware
- By P N RAMASWAMI on 22-04-24
Written by: Siddharth Kara
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A Short History of South Africa
- Written by: Gail Nattrass
- Narrated by: Sarah Jane Woodward
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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South Africa is popularly perceived as the most influential nation in Africa - a gateway to an entire continent for finance, trade and politics, and a crucial mediator in its neighbours’ affairs....
Written by: Gail Nattrass
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Africa Is Not a Country
- Notes on a Bright Continent
- Written by: Dipo Faloyin
- Narrated by: Dipo Faloyin
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, weaving a vibrant tapestry of stories....
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Super insightful
- By Sahil Bihari on 19-02-24
Written by: Dipo Faloyin
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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....
Written by: Paul Kenyon
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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....
Written by: J. H. Patterson
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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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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....
Written by: Philip Freeman
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Cave of Bones
- Written by: Lee Berger, John Hawks
- Narrated by: Lee Berger
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa—spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens....
Written by: Lee Berger,
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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....
Written by: Robert G. Hoyland
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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....
Written by: Stuart A. Reid
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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....
Written by: Jonny Steinberg
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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....
Written by: Susan Williams
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Birth of a Dream Weaver
- A Writer's Awakening
- Written by: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- Narrated by: Benjamin A. Onyango
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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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....
Written by: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
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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
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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....
Written by: Michela Wrong
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A Savage War of Peace
- Algeria 1954-1962
- Written by: Alistair Horne
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 29 hrs and 56 mins
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The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. From the perspective of half a century, it looks less like the last colonial war than the first postmodern one....
Written by: Alistair Horne
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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.....
Written by: Richard Miles
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Three Famines
- Written by: Thomas Keneally
- Narrated by: Peter Byrne
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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This is the story of three terrible famines....
Written by: Thomas Keneally
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Inside the Hotel Rwanda
- The Surprising True Story…and Why It Matters Today
- Written by: Edouard Kayihura, Kerry Zukus
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis, Rosalind Ashford
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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Inside the Hotel Rwanda offers an honest and unflinching first-hand account of the reality of life inside the hotel, exposing the man who exploited refugees....
Written by: Edouard Kayihura,
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Labyrinth of Kingdoms
- 10,000 Miles Through Islamic Africa
- Written by: Steve Kemper
- Narrated by: Ed Phillips
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
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A true story that rivals the travels of Burton or Stanley for excitement, and surpasses them in scientific achievements....
Written by: Steve Kemper
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The Gifts of Africa
- How a Continent and Its People Changed the World
- Written by: Jeff Pearce
- Narrated by: JW Hathaway
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
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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....
Written by: Jeff Pearce
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Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire
- Written by: Drusilla Dunjee Houston
- Narrated by: Rodney Louis Tompkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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Inspired by the works of WEB DuBois, Houston undertook a quest to discover African history from an African American perspective. Here, Houston identifies the Kushite civilization of Sudan, with its capital city Meroe, to be the cradle of humanity....
Written by: Drusilla Dunjee Houston
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The Pirate Coast
- Thomas Jefferson, The First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
- Written by: Richard Zacks
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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After Tripoli declared war on the United States in 1801, Barbary pirates captured 300 U.S. sailors and marines....
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Too fast
- By Rahul on 19-11-21
Written by: Richard Zacks
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Culture Smart! Morocco
- The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- Written by: Jillian York
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
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Morocco is a land of spectacular scenery with a rich history and heady with tantalizing scents and colorful sights. The call of the muezzin seems to draw people from every corner of the globe....
Written by: Jillian York
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Congo Mercenary
- Written by: Mike Hoare
- Narrated by: Mike Hoare
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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Col. Mike Hoare tells how his force of mercenaries, 5 Commando, put down a Comunist-backed rebel uprising in the Congo....
Written by: Mike Hoare
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Mike Hoare's Adventures in Africa
- Written by: Mike Hoare
- Narrated by: Mike Hoare
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Go with Mike on foot accros Basutoland; by motorbike from Cape Town to Cairo; to sea in a 36-foot ketch; into the Kalahari desert - and more....
Written by: Mike Hoare
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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....
Written by: Frantz Fanon
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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
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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...
Written by: Andrew Milburn
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Origin of the Negro Race
- Written by: Henry Morton Stanley
- Narrated by: Rodney Louis Tompkins
- Length: 32 mins
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Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was a Welsh explorer and journalist. Famous for his meeting with the missionary and explorer David Livingstone, Stanley searched for the source of the Nile as an agent of King Leopold II of Belgium....
Written by: Henry Morton Stanley
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Land Matters
- South Africa’s Failed Land Reforms and the Road Ahead
- Written by: Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
- Narrated by: Lungile Lallie
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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Why has land reform been such a failure in South Africa? Will expropriation without compensation solve the problem? What can be done to get the land programme back on track? In his new book, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi tackles these questions and more....
Written by: Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
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Born in Africa
- The Quest for the Origins of Human Life
- Written by: Martin Meredith
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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Africa does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind....
Written by: Martin Meredith
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Ivory's Ghosts
- The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants
- Written by: John Frederick Walker
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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Ivory's Ghosts is the first comprehensive, contemporary look at the world's most treasured organic material, ivory....
Written by: John Frederick Walker
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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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For too long, Africa's history has been neglected. Dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, its past has been fragmented, overlooked and denied its rightful place in our global story. Now, Zeinab Badawi guides us through Africa's spectacular history, from the origins of humanity, through ancient civilisations and medieval empires with powerful queens and kings, to the miseries of conquest and the elation of independence.
Written by: Zeinab Badawi
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Africa
- The Definitive History of a Continent
- Written by: DK, David Olusoga
- Narrated by: Itoya Osagiede
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of the world's second-largest continent is as intricate as it is vast. Starting with prehistory and the fossils left behind in Ethiopia by the earliest humans, this book captures a narrative that traverses great ancient civilizations, from the Kingdom of Aksum to the empires of West Africa and sultanates of the East, and explores history-defining events such as the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the liberation of Nelson Mandela.
Written by: DK,
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Origen del Antiguo Egipto
- Written by: Toby A.H. Wilkinson, Ignacio Alonso Blanco - traductor
- Narrated by: Antonio Raluy
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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El Periodo Dinástico Temprano abarca los cinco siglos que preceden a la construcción de la Gran Pirámide de Giza. Este fue el periodo de formación de la antigua civilización egipcia, y fue testigo de la creación de una cultura distintiva que perduraría durante 3000 años. En este audiolibro se examina los antecedentes de este gran logro, los mecanismos por los que se llevó a cabo y el carácter de la vida en el valle del Nilo durante los primeros 500 años de gobierno faraónico.
Written by: Toby A.H. Wilkinson,
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The Real Facts about Ethiopia
- Written by: J.A. Rogers
- Narrated by: Will Stauff
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Unveil the untold story of Ethiopia in J.A. Rogers' "The Real Facts About Ethiopia." This powerful 1936 exposé dismantles colonial stereotypes, unveiling a nation steeped in ancient history, vibrant culture, and fierce resistance. From its pre-Christian Axumite civilization to its unwavering defense against European domination, Rogers paints a compelling portrait of Ethiopia's unique identity.
Written by: J.A. Rogers
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The Zong
- A Massacre, the Law & the End of Slavery
- Written by: James Walvin
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. The captain believed his ship was off course, and he feared there was not enough drinking water to last until landfall. This book is the first to examine in detail the deplorable killings on the Zong, the lawsuit that ensued, how the murder of 132 slaves affected debates about slavery, and the way we remember the infamous Zong today.
Written by: James Walvin
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Beda Fomm to Operation Crusader, 1940-41
- Desert Armour: Tank Warfare in North Africa
- Written by: Robert Forczyk
- Narrated by: Chris Monteiro
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Robert Forczyk covers the development of armored warfare in North Africa from the earliest Anglo-Italian engagements in 1940 to the British victory over the German Afrikakorps in Operation Crusader in 1941. The war in the North African desert was pure mechanized warfare, and in many respects the most technologically advanced theatre of World War II. It was also the only theatre where for three years British and Commonwealth, and later United States, troops were in constant contact with Axis forces.
Written by: Robert Forczyk
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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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For too long, Africa's history has been neglected. Dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, its past has been fragmented, overlooked and denied its rightful place in our global story. Now, Zeinab Badawi guides us through Africa's spectacular history, from the origins of humanity, through ancient civilisations and medieval empires with powerful queens and kings, to the miseries of conquest and the elation of independence.
Written by: Zeinab Badawi
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Africa
- The Definitive History of a Continent
- Written by: DK, David Olusoga
- Narrated by: Itoya Osagiede
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of the world's second-largest continent is as intricate as it is vast. Starting with prehistory and the fossils left behind in Ethiopia by the earliest humans, this book captures a narrative that traverses great ancient civilizations, from the Kingdom of Aksum to the empires of West Africa and sultanates of the East, and explores history-defining events such as the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the liberation of Nelson Mandela.
Written by: DK,
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Origen del Antiguo Egipto
- Written by: Toby A.H. Wilkinson, Ignacio Alonso Blanco - traductor
- Narrated by: Antonio Raluy
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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El Periodo Dinástico Temprano abarca los cinco siglos que preceden a la construcción de la Gran Pirámide de Giza. Este fue el periodo de formación de la antigua civilización egipcia, y fue testigo de la creación de una cultura distintiva que perduraría durante 3000 años. En este audiolibro se examina los antecedentes de este gran logro, los mecanismos por los que se llevó a cabo y el carácter de la vida en el valle del Nilo durante los primeros 500 años de gobierno faraónico.
Written by: Toby A.H. Wilkinson,
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The Real Facts about Ethiopia
- Written by: J.A. Rogers
- Narrated by: Will Stauff
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Unveil the untold story of Ethiopia in J.A. Rogers' "The Real Facts About Ethiopia." This powerful 1936 exposé dismantles colonial stereotypes, unveiling a nation steeped in ancient history, vibrant culture, and fierce resistance. From its pre-Christian Axumite civilization to its unwavering defense against European domination, Rogers paints a compelling portrait of Ethiopia's unique identity.
Written by: J.A. Rogers
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The Zong
- A Massacre, the Law & the End of Slavery
- Written by: James Walvin
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. The captain believed his ship was off course, and he feared there was not enough drinking water to last until landfall. This book is the first to examine in detail the deplorable killings on the Zong, the lawsuit that ensued, how the murder of 132 slaves affected debates about slavery, and the way we remember the infamous Zong today.
Written by: James Walvin
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Beda Fomm to Operation Crusader, 1940-41
- Desert Armour: Tank Warfare in North Africa
- Written by: Robert Forczyk
- Narrated by: Chris Monteiro
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Robert Forczyk covers the development of armored warfare in North Africa from the earliest Anglo-Italian engagements in 1940 to the British victory over the German Afrikakorps in Operation Crusader in 1941. The war in the North African desert was pure mechanized warfare, and in many respects the most technologically advanced theatre of World War II. It was also the only theatre where for three years British and Commonwealth, and later United States, troops were in constant contact with Axis forces.
Written by: Robert Forczyk