Great African History

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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 11 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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    • Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
    • By: Robin D. G. Kelley
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the Civil Rights movement, Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and '40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality....

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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 72 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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    • 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 285 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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    • The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
    • By: Isabel Wilkerson
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13,957 ratings
    • From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history....

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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 669 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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    • 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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    • The Untold Story
    • By: Miranda Kaufmann
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • A Black porter publicly whips a White English gentleman in a Gloucestershire manor house. A heavily pregnant African woman is abandoned on an Indonesian island....

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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 29 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • The History and Legacy of the European Subjugation of South Africa
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The Colonization of South Africa: The History and Legacy of the European Subjugation of South Africa looks at the controversial expeditions, fighting, and results...you will learn about the colonization of South Africa like never before....

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    • The Life and Legend of Baseball’s Greatest Forgotten Player
    • By: Jeremy Beer
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Buck O'Neil once described him as "Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker rolled into one". Among experts, he is regarded as the best player in Negro Leagues history. Yet even among serious sports fans, Oscar Charleston is virtually unknown today....

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    • “Bronzeville: The Black Metropolis"
    • By: Alvin Hayes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this fascinating tale set in 1919, the Thomas family leaves New Orleans for Chicago as part of the Great Migration, seeking equality denied in ...

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    • The History and Legacy of the Nation From European Colonization to the End of the Apartheid Era
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • South Africa: The History and Legacy of the Nation from European Colonization to the End of the Apartheid Era looks at the controversial history of the country, from the initial European explorers to the successful struggle to dismantle apartheid....

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    • The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
    • By: Martin Meredith
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 241 ratings
    • Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world....

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    • The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
    • By: John M. Barry
    • Narrated by: Barry Grizzard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 534 ratings
    • Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known, the Mississippi flood of 1927....

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    • Rome’s Greatest Enemy
    • By: Philip Freeman
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Third Edition
    • By: Eric Williams
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 04-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide....

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    • Explore the Amazing Timeline of the World’s Richest Continent—The History, Culture, Folklore, Mythology & More of Africa
    • By: History Brought Alive
    • Narrated by: Brian Jeffords
    • Length: 3 hrs
    • Release date: 10-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • With a rich geography and fascinating history, this continent is truly awe inspiring! It’s no wonder Africa has given rise to many of our languages, philosophies, and legends which we honor to this day....

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