African Writings

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    • Travels with an African Soldier
    • By: Alexandra Fuller
    • Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 235 ratings
    • 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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    • New Writings in Black Queer Studies
    • By: E. Patrick Johnson - editor
    • Narrated by: Kevin Free
    • Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together 19 essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on Black gender and sexuality....

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    • One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River
    • By: Dan Morrison
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Investigative journalist Dan Morrison hired a boat builder, summoned a childhood buddy, and set out paddling from Jinja, Uganda, down the White Nile toward Cairo....

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    • By: Levison Wood
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 337 ratings
    • An inimitable tale of survival, resilience, and sheer willpower, Walking the Nile is an inspiring chronicle of an epic journey down the lifeline of civilization in northern Africa....

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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 721 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: Mike Hoare
    • Narrated by: Mike Hoare
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Writing the Race
    • By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s, legendary Harvard introductory course in African American studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way.

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    • 25 Years of Prison Writing
    • By: Bell Gale Chevigny - editor
    • Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark, Shay Moore
    • Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Doing Time: For the prison writers whose work is included in this anthology, it means more than "serving a sentence"; it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity, reinventing oneself....

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    • The Inspirational Story of Thirteen Years Living with Elephants in the African Wilderness
    • By: Sharon Pincott
    • Narrated by: Cat Gould
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • In 2001, Sharon Pincott traded her privileged life as a high-flying corporate executive to start a new one with the Presidential Elephants of Zimbabwe. She was unpaid, untrained, self-funded, and arrived with the starry-eyed idealism of most foreigners during early encounters with Africa....

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    • A True Story of Survival
    • By: Dean King
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,411 ratings
    • 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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    • Cycling in West Africa
    • By: Neil Peart
    • Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 503 ratings
    • Dysentery, drunken soldiers, and corrupt officials provide the background for Rush drummer Neil Peart's physical and spiritual cycling journey through West Africa....

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    • The Untold Story of an American Icon
    • By: Nyasha Junior, Jeremy Schipper
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Before Harriet Tubman or Martin Luther King was identified with Moses, African Americans identified those who challenged racial oppression in America with Samson....

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    • The Vintage Departures Series
    • By: Toby Wilkinson
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • The Nile, like all of Egypt, is both timeless and ever-changing. In this audio, renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey downriver that is both history and travelogue. We begin at the First Nile Cataract, close to the modern city of Aswan....

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    • By: Marcus Garvey
    • Narrated by: Yosef Kent
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • One of the most important and controversial figures in the history of race relations in America and the world at large, Marcus Garvey was the first great black orator of the 20th century....

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    • The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
    • By: Nelson Mandela
    • Narrated by: Danny Glover
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 02-09-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 236 ratings
    • The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time....

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    • Twenty-Three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People
    • By: Mark Owens, Delia Owens
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel, Sean Runnette
    • Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 276 ratings
    • In this riveting real-life adventure, Mark and Delia Owens tell the dramatic story of their last years in Africa, fighting to save elephants, villagers, and - in the end - themselves....

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    • By: Michael Palin
    • Narrated by: Michael Palin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • Michael Palin is off again, this time to the seemingly desolate Sahara Desert....

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