African Worlds

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    • By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
    • Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
    • Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 31,241 ratings
    • In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 208 ratings
    • 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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    • The History, Rise, and Fall of the Tribe That Washed Its Spears
    • By: Xolani Mkhize, Adrian Greaves
    • Narrated by: Kevin Free
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 191 ratings
    • By tracing the long and turbulent history of the Zulus from their arrival in South Africa and the establishment of Zululand, The Zulus at War is an important and readable addition....

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    • The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels
    • Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 898 ratings
    • 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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    • A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
    • By: Michael Gomez
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 19 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • A groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global history....

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    • How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World
    • By: Lizzie Collingham
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • In The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through 20 meals....

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    • A White Boy in Africa
    • By: Peter Godwin
    • Narrated by: Peter Godwin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • 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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    • The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
    • By: Richard Miles
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 690 ratings
    • An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.....

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    • A Lexington, Alabama Novel, Book 5
    • By: Mary Monroe
    • Narrated by: Shari Peele
    • Series: A Lexington, Alabama Novel, Book 5
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 173 ratings
    • Brimming with unpredictable twists and scandals, the latest Depression-era Alabama novel from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe tells of a mistreated wife who finally finds the love she's longed for—only to be plunged into deceit, betrayal, and murder.

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    • The Civil War in American Memory
    • By: David W. Blight
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 20 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • Race and Reunion is a history of how the unity of white America was purchased through the increasing segregation of black and white memory of the Civil War. David Blight's sweeping narrative of triumph and tragedy, romance and realism, is a compelling tale....

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    • The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
    • By: Jason Stearns
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 288 ratings
    • 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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    • Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
    • By: Stephen Kinzer
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • This book recounts the thrilling and uplifting tale of a man who defied the odds to lift himself and his country out of misery toward a more promising future....

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    • By: Millie Belizaire
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • BOOK ONE of The Collide Series Sometimes love comes unexpectedly... Lauren is a spoiled daddy's girl, brought up under the protection of Miami's ...

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    • By: Aya De Leon
    • Narrated by: Patricia Floyd
    • Series: Justice Hustlers, Book 2
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Tyesha Couvillier will never forget the brutal treatment she endured as a sex worker. So as the director of the Lower East Side Women's Health Clinic, she'll take on the Ukranian mob....

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    • Four Speeches
    • By: Malcom X
    • Narrated by: George Washington III
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 966 ratings
    • Here in his own words are the revolutionary ideas that made Malcolm X one of the most charismatic and influential African-American leaders of the 1960s....

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    • Uncover the Shocking Story of How 12.5 Million Africans Were Sold as Slaves & Sent to the New World
    • By: Melvin King
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-25
    • Language: English
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    • A hidden history, A global crime, The truth they never wanted you to know about the Transatlantic Slave Trade For centuries, the transatlantic ...

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    • General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa, 1914-1918
    • By: Robert Gaudi
    • Narrated by: Paul Hodgson
    • Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,017 ratings
    • African Kaiser is the almost-forgotten true account of Wiemar Germany's military escapades on the dark continent. A story of 1,000-mile marches through the harshest landscapes....

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    • By: Ernest Hemingway
    • Narrated by: Josh Lucas
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 723 ratings
    • His second major venture into nonfiction (after Death in the Afternoon, 1932), Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal....

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    • By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero....

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