Africa Nonfiction

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    • 51 Inspiring People from Ancient Africa to Modern-Day U.S.A.
    • By: Arlisha Norwood
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • Meet extraordinary black heroes throughout history—biographies for kids ages 8 to 12. You’re invited to meet ancient Egyptian rulers, brilliant scientists, legendary musicians, and civil rights activists—all in the same book!

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    • From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
    • By: Zeinab Badawi
    • Narrated by: Zeinab Badawi
    • Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Denise Dennis
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Black History for Beginners covers a rich but often ignored history and chronicles the Black struggle from capture and enslavement in Africa through the civil rights movement and up to today and the new and different kinds of struggles that Black people face today....

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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,749 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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    • From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
    • By: Zeinab Badawi
    • Narrated by: Zeinab Badawi
    • Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 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....

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    • 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life
    • By: Kwame Alexander
    • Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • A companion book to his best-selling and Newbery winning book The Crossover, The Playbook is Kwame Alexander's dynamic, sports-infused guide to life....

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    • The Untold Story of Fortress Monroe and the Ending of Slavery in America
    • By: Selene Castrovilla, E.B. Lewis
    • Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
    • Length: 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
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    • George Scott peered at the nearby Union fortress. Something miraculous was taking place! Three enslaved men had entered but had not been cast out. To Scott, the fortress must be a sanctuary. A place where the three would be safe from capture and harm....

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    • By: Bonnie Bader
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights....

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    • How Drawing Shaped My Life
    • By: Jerry Pinkney
    • Narrated by: Scott Pinkney, Gloria Pinkney
    • Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Jerry Pinkney drew everywhere, all the time. It was how he made sense of the world—how he coped with the stress of being a sensitive child growing up in crowded spaces, struggling with a learning disability, in a time when the segregation of Black Americans was the norm....

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    • A Book About the People and Places of Kenya
    • By: Sarah Heiman, Arturo Avila
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Series: Country Abcs
    • Length: 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • An alphabetical exploration of the people, geography, animals, plants, history, and culture of Kenya....

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    • A Book About the People and Places of Egypt (Country ABCs)
    • By: Sarah Heiman
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Series: Country Abcs
    • Length: 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • An alphabetical exploration of the people, geography, animals, plants, history, and culture of Egypt....

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    • By: Zora Neale Hurston
    • Narrated by: Ruby Dee
    • Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 373 ratings
    • In Mules and Men, some of the rich cultural heritage of black America is revealed and preserved....

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    • Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom
    • By: Gary D. Schmidt
    • Narrated by: Channie Waites
    • Length: 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but possessed a mind and a vision that knew no bounds. So Tall Within traces her life from her painful childhood through her emancipation to her incredible leadership in the movement for rights for both women and African Americans....

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    • Who Was...?
    • By: Yona Zeldis McDonough
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America....

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    • Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985
    • By: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 34 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Personal and prophetic, these essays uncover what it means to live in a racist American society with insights that feel as fresh today as they did over the four decades in which he composed them....

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    • By: Jackie Torrence
    • Narrated by: Jackie Torrence
    • Length: 1 hr
    • Release date: 10-20-00
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • One of America's favorite African-American storytellers remembers her childhood in tender, unforgettable new stories....

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