East Africa History

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    • A Captivating Guide to Civilizations of Ancient Africa Such as the Land of Punt, Carthage, the Kingdom of Aksum, the Mali Empire, and the Kingdom of Kush
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • Africa is the continent where the first humans were born. They explored the vast land and produced the first tools. And although we migrated from that continent, we never completely abandoned it....

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    • A History
    • By: Eugene Rogan
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 27 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 661 ratings
    • In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context....

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    • By: J. H. Patterson
    • Narrated by: Christopher Romance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • 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....

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    • A Captivating Guide to West African History, Starting from Ancient Civilizations Through the Medieval Period to the Present
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Beginning in prehistoric times, West Africa has always been an incredible region. Early nomadic tribes settled into some of the earliest communities on Earth and learned how to work with metal. This audiobook covers some of the most important events in West Africa’s history....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Ethiopian History (African History)
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Ethiopia has a long history. It boasts one of the longest-running continuous civilizations on the planet; even the origins of humanity have been traced back to Ethiopia....

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    • 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
    • By: Michael Scott Moore
    • Narrated by: Corey Snow
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 785 ratings
    • Michael Scott Moore incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates - a riveting, thoughtful exploration of foreign policy, religious extremism, and the costs of survival....

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    • The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama
    • By: Nigel Cliff
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Historian Nigel Cliff delivers a sweeping reinterpretation of Vasco da Gama's pioneering voyages, revealing their significance as a decisive turning point in the struggle between Christianity and Islam - a series of events which forever altered the relationship between East and West....

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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 39 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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    • The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years On
    • By: Leigh Neville, Matt Eversmann - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • On October 3, 1993, Task Force Ranger was dispatched to seize two high-profile lieutenants of a Somali warlord. The mission was meant to be over within the hour. They quickly found themselves under heavy fire, and two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down....

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    • The True Story of Black Hawk Pilot Michael Durant and the Men Who Fought and Fell at Mogadishu
    • By: Michael Durant, Steven Hartov
    • Narrated by: Michael Durant
    • Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 642 ratings
    • Piloting a U.S. Army Special Operations Blackhawk, Durant was shot down and captured on October 3, 1993....

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    • A Journey of Remembrance and Forgetting
    • By: Tracy Kidder
    • Narrated by: Tracy Kidder
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 340 ratings
    • In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of a hero for our time. Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man’s remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him–a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances....

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    • The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
    • By: Caroline Elkins
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu....

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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 144 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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    • The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
    • By: Robert G. Hoyland
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 233 ratings
    • 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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    • From Mogadishu to the Fight Against ISIS, a Marine Special Operations Commander at War
    • By: Andrew Milburn
    • Narrated by: Andrew Milburn
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 235 ratings
    • 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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    • The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign
    • By: Andrew Stewart
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Surprisingly neglected in accounts of Allied wartime triumphs, in 1941 British and Commonwealth forces completed a stunning and important victory in East Africa....

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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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    • Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp
    • By: Ben Rawlence
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable desert of Northern Kenya, Dadaab is a city like no other. Its buildings are made from mud, sticks, or plastic....

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    • The Inspiring Story of Ethiopia's Victory over Mussolini's Invasion, 1935-1941
    • By: Jeff Pearce, Richard Pankhurst - foreword
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 24 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • It was the war that changed everything, and yet it's been mostly forgotten: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. It dominated newspaper headlines and newsreels....

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    • The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi
    • By: Fred Burton, Samuel M. Katz
    • Narrated by: Jeff Gurner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • The New York Times bestselling inside account of the attack against the U.S. diplomatic and intelligence outposts in Benghazi, Libya....

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