Bestsellers
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King Leopold's Ghost
- A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
- By: Adam Hochschild
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,045
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Performance1,695
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Story1,696
In the late 1890s, Edmund Dene Morel, a young British shipping company agent, noticed something strange about the cargoes of his company’s ships as they arrived from and departed for the Congo, Leopold II’s vast new African colony. Incoming ships were crammed with valuable ivory and rubber...
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Fascinating
- By Edith on 01-20-11
By: Adam Hochschild
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall623
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Performance529
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Story520
Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....
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A Superb must read for everyone
- By Joy on 04-16-19
By: Walter Rodney, and others
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa (1942-1943)
- The Liberation Trilogy, Volume 1
- By: Rick Atkinson
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 26 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,710
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Performance2,396
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Story2,388
Beginning the trilogy that continues with The Day of Battle, An Army at Dawn opens on the eve of Operation TORCH, the daring amphibious invasion of Morocco and Algeria. After three days of hard fighting against the French, American and British troops push deeper into North Africa. But the...
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Fascinating book, great performance
- By Ted on 05-30-16
By: Rick Atkinson
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Long Walk to Freedom
- The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- By: Nelson Mandela, Sharon Gelman
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 27 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,024
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Performance4,459
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Story4,445
The autobiography of global human rights icon Nelson Mandela is "riveting . . . both a brilliant description of a diabolical system and a testament to the power of the spirit to transcend it" (Washington Post). Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an...
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Surprisingly honest autobiography.
- By History on 11-17-11
By: Nelson Mandela, and others
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An African History of Africa
- From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
- By: Zeinab Badawi
- Narrated by: Zeinab Badawi
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall162
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Performance144
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Story144
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. “Equal parts gripping and galvanizing. . . . Researched across more than 30...
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Introductory History
- By Wally Brewer on 05-14-25
By: Zeinab Badawi
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Black Hawk Down
- By: Mark Bowden
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,348
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Performance3,895
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Story3,896
Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded by thousands of enemy gunmen: Their wounded are bleeding to death. Their ammunition and supplies are dwindling. This is the story of how they got there -- and how they fought...
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A Classic Of Military Writing...
- By Joshua on 11-06-16
By: Mark Bowden
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King Leopold's Ghost
- A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
- By: Adam Hochschild
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,045
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Performance1,695
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Story1,696
In the late 1890s, Edmund Dene Morel, a young British shipping company agent, noticed something strange about the cargoes of his company’s ships as they arrived from and departed for the Congo, Leopold II’s vast new African colony. Incoming ships were crammed with valuable ivory and rubber...
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Fascinating
- By Edith on 01-20-11
By: Adam Hochschild
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall623
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Performance529
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Story520
Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....
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A Superb must read for everyone
- By Joy on 04-16-19
By: Walter Rodney, and others
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa (1942-1943)
- The Liberation Trilogy, Volume 1
- By: Rick Atkinson
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 26 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,710
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Performance2,396
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Story2,388
Beginning the trilogy that continues with The Day of Battle, An Army at Dawn opens on the eve of Operation TORCH, the daring amphibious invasion of Morocco and Algeria. After three days of hard fighting against the French, American and British troops push deeper into North Africa. But the...
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Fascinating book, great performance
- By Ted on 05-30-16
By: Rick Atkinson
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Long Walk to Freedom
- The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- By: Nelson Mandela, Sharon Gelman
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 27 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,024
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Performance4,459
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Story4,445
The autobiography of global human rights icon Nelson Mandela is "riveting . . . both a brilliant description of a diabolical system and a testament to the power of the spirit to transcend it" (Washington Post). Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an...
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Surprisingly honest autobiography.
- By History on 11-17-11
By: Nelson Mandela, and others
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An African History of Africa
- From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
- By: Zeinab Badawi
- Narrated by: Zeinab Badawi
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall162
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Performance144
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Story144
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. “Equal parts gripping and galvanizing. . . . Researched across more than 30...
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Introductory History
- By Wally Brewer on 05-14-25
By: Zeinab Badawi
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Black Hawk Down
- By: Mark Bowden
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,348
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Performance3,895
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Story3,896
Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded by thousands of enemy gunmen: Their wounded are bleeding to death. Their ammunition and supplies are dwindling. This is the story of how they got there -- and how they fought...
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A Classic Of Military Writing...
- By Joshua on 11-06-16
By: Mark Bowden
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White Malice
- The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
- By: Susan Williams
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
- Length: 21 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall113
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Performance99
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Story99
Filled with “fascinating information, original research, and bold ideas” (NPR), a revelatory account of how African Independence was systematically undermined by the US In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the leading figures of African independence in a...
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Informative, sometimes repetitive, good read
- By M. Regina on 05-13-22
By: Susan Williams
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Born in Blackness
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall257
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Performance226
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Story227
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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American History World History Our History
- By Bill on 06-13-22
By: Howard W. French
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Skeletons on the Zahara
- A True Story of Survival
- By: Dean King
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,448
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Performance1,288
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Story1,287
Skeletons on the Zahara chronicles the true story of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected to a hellish two-month journey through the perilous heart of the Sahara. The western Sahara is a baking...
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Haunting
- By thawstone on 06-05-16
By: Dean King
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A Long Way Gone
- Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
- By: Ishmael Beah
- Narrated by: Ishmael Beah
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,076
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Performance1,799
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Story1,804
In A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story in his own words: how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was...
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Author's voice
- By B. Bunt on 11-01-13
By: Ishmael Beah
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Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
- The Forgotten War That Changed American History
- By: Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger
- Narrated by: Brian Kilmeade
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,906
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Performance2,617
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Story2,601
“Another blockbuster! Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates reads like an edge-of-your-seat, page-turning thriller. You will love this book and also wonder why so few people know this story. No one captures the danger, intrigue, and drama of the American Revolution and its aftermath like...
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Interesting history - terrible narrator
- By CJF on 12-08-15
By: Brian Kilmeade, and others
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African Origin of Civilization - The Myth or Reality
- By: Cheikh Anta Diop
- Narrated by: Frank Block
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall286
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Performance243
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Story243
This classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization....
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History told from an honest point
- By Lee on 12-19-21
By: Cheikh Anta Diop
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Lessons From the Rhodesian Bush War
- A Study in Survival, Rural Defense, and Collapse
- By: Don Shift
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 19 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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Story10
Lessons From the Rhodesian Bush War is not a conventional history—it’s a focused, hard-edged study of what happens when a nation is cut off, ...
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Much to learn from the past
- By philipbergen on 09-27-25
By: Don Shift
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- An African Childhood
- By: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,178
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Performance855
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Story851
In 1972, when Alexandra Fuller was two years old, her parents finally abandoned their English life and returned to what was then Southern Rhodesia and to the beginning of a civil war. By the time she was eight, the war was in full swing.
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An African Childhood of Harrowing Proportions
- By Sara on 10-12-15
By: Alexandra Fuller
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River of the Gods
- Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
- By: Candice Millard
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,619
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Performance1,410
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Story1,405
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy—from the New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST GOODREADS "A lean...
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Good book by Millard, narrator ruined it
- By Tally D Lykins on 05-25-22
By: Candice Millard
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Out of Africa & Shadows on the Grass
- By: Isak Dinesen
- Narrated by: Susan Lyons
- Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall394
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Performance347
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Story347
Out of Africa: In this audiobook, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the...
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Sketches of Africa
- By Jay Fontana on 03-26-16
By: Isak Dinesen
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A Handful of Hard Men
- The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
- By: Hannes Wessels
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall963
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Performance868
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Story867
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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Fantastic Story- Title says it all... Hard Men
- By rowca on 10-05-17
By: Hannes Wessels
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Bush War Operator
- Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond
- By: A.J. Balaam
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall467
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Performance413
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Story413
Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s would have had a father, husband, brother, or son called up in the defense of the war-torn, landlocked little country. This is the story of Andrew Balaam, a member of the Rhodesian Light Infantry and the Selous Scouts for 12 years....
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Decent book. Could have been better.
- By Alejandro on 09-05-20
By: A.J. Balaam
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The Second Emancipation
- Nkruman, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide
- By: Howard W. French
- Narrated by: Howard W. French, David Sadzin
- Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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Story6
From the acclaimed author of Born in Blackness comes an extraordinary account of Africa's liberation from colonial oppression, a work that fundamentally reshapes our understanding of modern history.
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Another Masterpiece
- By Freeman Fridie Jr. on 12-01-25
By: Howard W. French
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The Lumumba Plot
- The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
- By: Stuart A. Reid
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall147
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Performance127
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Story127
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Economist...
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Somewhere between a bio and a hatchet job
- By Buretto on 12-27-23
By: Stuart A. Reid
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Benghazi: Know Thy Enemy
- A Cold Case Investigation
- By: Sarah Adams, Dave Benton
- Narrated by: Brian Sears
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall74
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Performance70
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Story69
Starting on September 11th, 2012, al-Qa'ida carried out a series of terrorist attacks on the U.S. Consulate and CIA Annex in Benghazi, Libya, killing four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens....
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Truth is good
- By Jamie F on 06-20-24
By: Sarah Adams, and others
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A Dying Colonialism
- By: Frantz Fanon
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance26
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Story26
A Dying Colonialism is Frantz Fanon’s seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution....
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A must-read for any revolutionary.
- By shopper on 03-25-25
By: Frantz Fanon
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Cobalt Red
- How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
- By: Siddharth Kara
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall613
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Performance531
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Story531
Long-listed, New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, 2023 Long-listed, New Yorker Best Books of the Year, 2023 This program includes an author's note read by the author. An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and...
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A must read
- By Anonymous on 02-01-23
By: Siddharth Kara
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Into Africa
- The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
- By: Martin Dugard
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,385
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Performance1,801
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Story1,793
With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has...
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Riveting
- By Gene on 04-01-04
By: Martin Dugard
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Carthage
- A New History
- By: Eve MacDonald
- Narrated by: Eve MacDonald
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance12
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Story12
For six hundred years, the city of Carthage dominated the western Mediterranean. Founded in the ninth century BCE as a small colonial outpost, by the third, it had grown into the area's largest, richest empire.
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Uneven in parts
- By TheoBabe on 02-01-26
By: Eve MacDonald
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Africa Is Not a Country
- Notes on a Bright Continent
- By: Dipo Faloyin
- Narrated by: Dipo Faloyin
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall249
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Performance220
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Story220
So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, weaving a vibrant tapestry of stories....
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Brilliant!
- By Jane on 01-26-23
By: Dipo Faloyin
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Congo Mercenary
- By: Mike Hoare
- Narrated by: Mike Hoare
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall276
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Performance233
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Story229
Col. Mike Hoare tells how his force of mercenaries, 5 Commando, put down a Comunist-backed rebel uprising in the Congo....
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Nice to hear an unapologetic account
- By S. H. Moore on 01-16-20
By: Mike Hoare
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The Fate of Africa
- A History of the Continent Since Independence
- By: Martin Meredith
- Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
- Length: 29 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall396
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Performance344
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Story340
Martin Meredith has revised this classic history to incorporate important recent developments....
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Africa: Land of Hope and Horror
- By Jeff on 03-08-14
By: Martin Meredith
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There Was a Country
- A Personal History of Biafra
- By: Chinua Achebe
- Narrated by: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall182
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Performance150
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Story150
From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes a longawaited memoir about coming of age with a fragile new nation, then watching it torn asunder in a tragic civil war The defining experience of Chinua Achebe’s life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970...
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The Audible Edition Is a Disaster
- By Olu on 11-28-12
By: Chinua Achebe
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How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind
- Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity
- By: Dr. Thomas C. Oden PhD
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall99
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Performance75
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Story76
Africa has played a decisive role in the formation of Christian culture from its infancy. Some of the most decisive intellectual achievements of Christianity were explored and understood in Africa before they were in Europe....
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Worth reading even if not perfect
- By Adam Shields on 02-26-20
New releases
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The Shadow of the Sun
- By: Ryszard Kapuściński, Klara Glowczewska - translator
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance0
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In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland’s state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski hitchhikes with caravans, wanders the Sahara with nomads, and lives in the poverty-stricken slums of Nigeria.
By: Ryszard Kapuściński, and others
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Seeking Sexual Freedom
- African Rites, Rituals, and Sankofa in the Bedroom
- By: Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
- Narrated by: Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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A delightful romp exploring African traditions around sexual pleasure, with the personal goal of self-discovery and liberation, by one of Africa’s preeminent feminists. While working on her first book, The Sex Lives of African Women, acclaimed feminist and activist Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah had...
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The Indigenous Black Populations of Asia and the Middle East
- HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
- By: Frederick Amakom
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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What if everything you thought you knew about race, geography, and human history was incomplete? For centuries, the world has been taught a simple narrative: Blackness belongs to Africa. Asia and the Middle East are something else. But history tells a different story. Across the forests of Southeast Asia, the deserts of Arabia, the coasts of India, and the islands of the Pacific live black populations whose presence challenges everything we think we know. They are dark-skinned. They are ancient. They are indigenous. And yet—they have been overlooked. Hidden in Plain Sight takes you on a ...
By: Frederick Amakom
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Black North Africa, Arabization and the Hidden History of Indigenous North Africans
- BEFORE THE DESERT SPOKE ARABIC
- By: Frederick Amakom
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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What if everything you thought you knew about North Africa was incomplete? North Africa is often presented as an extension of the Arab world—defined by language, religion, and culture that seem timeless. But this narrative hides a deeper truth. Long before Arabic was spoken across the region… Before the rise of Islamic empires… Before the Sahara became a barrier… North Africa was part of a vast, interconnected African world—home to diverse populations of dark-skinned, indigenous people, and deeply rooted in the continent. This book uncovers the hidden layers of that history. In ...
By: Frederick Amakom
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Cartago [Carthage]
- Una nueva historia de un antiguo imperio
- By: Eve MacDonald, Abraham Gragera - translator
- Narrated by: Marta García
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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La épica historia de uno de los imperios más ricos y poderosos de la Antigüedad.
By: Eve MacDonald, and others
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The Phantom of the Congo
- The Jason Green Series
- By: Gordon Wallis
- Narrated by: Kevin Hanssen
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance1
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In the dark heart of Africa’s deepest rainforest, a ruthless predator waits. And he kills without mercy. When insurance investigator Jason Green is dispatched to a remote research station in the shadow of Ngandu Mountain, it sounds routine. Inspect a few breakdowns, file a report, and fly home.
By: Gordon Wallis
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The Shadow of the Sun
- By: Ryszard Kapuściński, Klara Glowczewska - translator
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland’s state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski hitchhikes with caravans, wanders the Sahara with nomads, and lives in the poverty-stricken slums of Nigeria.
By: Ryszard Kapuściński, and others
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Seeking Sexual Freedom
- African Rites, Rituals, and Sankofa in the Bedroom
- By: Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
- Narrated by: Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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A delightful romp exploring African traditions around sexual pleasure, with the personal goal of self-discovery and liberation, by one of Africa’s preeminent feminists. While working on her first book, The Sex Lives of African Women, acclaimed feminist and activist Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah had...
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The Indigenous Black Populations of Asia and the Middle East
- HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
- By: Frederick Amakom
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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What if everything you thought you knew about race, geography, and human history was incomplete? For centuries, the world has been taught a simple narrative: Blackness belongs to Africa. Asia and the Middle East are something else. But history tells a different story. Across the forests of Southeast Asia, the deserts of Arabia, the coasts of India, and the islands of the Pacific live black populations whose presence challenges everything we think we know. They are dark-skinned. They are ancient. They are indigenous. And yet—they have been overlooked. Hidden in Plain Sight takes you on a ...
By: Frederick Amakom
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Black North Africa, Arabization and the Hidden History of Indigenous North Africans
- BEFORE THE DESERT SPOKE ARABIC
- By: Frederick Amakom
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
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What if everything you thought you knew about North Africa was incomplete? North Africa is often presented as an extension of the Arab world—defined by language, religion, and culture that seem timeless. But this narrative hides a deeper truth. Long before Arabic was spoken across the region… Before the rise of Islamic empires… Before the Sahara became a barrier… North Africa was part of a vast, interconnected African world—home to diverse populations of dark-skinned, indigenous people, and deeply rooted in the continent. This book uncovers the hidden layers of that history. In ...
By: Frederick Amakom
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Cartago [Carthage]
- Una nueva historia de un antiguo imperio
- By: Eve MacDonald, Abraham Gragera - translator
- Narrated by: Marta García
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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La épica historia de uno de los imperios más ricos y poderosos de la Antigüedad.
By: Eve MacDonald, and others
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The Phantom of the Congo
- The Jason Green Series
- By: Gordon Wallis
- Narrated by: Kevin Hanssen
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In the dark heart of Africa’s deepest rainforest, a ruthless predator waits. And he kills without mercy. When insurance investigator Jason Green is dispatched to a remote research station in the shadow of Ngandu Mountain, it sounds routine. Inspect a few breakdowns, file a report, and fly home.
By: Gordon Wallis