African War 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: 18-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 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 SAS in Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers - with
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • In addition to Andre Scheepers' personal story, this book reveals more about some of the other men who were distinguished operators in SAS operations during the Rhodesian War....

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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: 12-04-22
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • A Captivating Guide to Its Causes, Battles, and Legacy in South Africa (African History)
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-24
    • Language: English
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    • This riveting narrative unfolds a tumultuous chapter in history where ambition, resilience, and tragedy collide on the sun-scorched plains of South Africa.

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    • An American Family
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....

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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: 30-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 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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    • By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-18
    • Language: English
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    • Harriet Ann Jacob's autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery....

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    • The Forgotten History of an African American Fighter Pilot
    • By: Thomas E. Simmons
    • Narrated by: DeMario Clarke
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The forgotten true story of American war hero John Charles Robinson, a.k.a. The Brown Condor of Ethiopia....

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    • The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
    • By: Michela Wrong
    • Narrated by: Michela Wrong
    • Length: 18 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 30-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • A new book from the award-winning author of In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz, Do Not Disturb explores the controversial career of Paul Kagame and the legacy of the Rwandan genocide....

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    • By: Byron Farwell
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 17-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • The Great Boer War (1899-1902) - more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War - was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence....

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    • By: A. Wilmot
    • Narrated by: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
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    • 1879 was a year of bloody conflict on the African continent. Cetsywayo, the Zulu chieftain, had wielded his armies with precision and care, defeating and driving his enemies before him....

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    • Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
    • By: Edward E Baptist
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution - the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy....

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    • Travels with an African Soldier
    • By: Alexandra Fuller
    • Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 20-05-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 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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    • The Story of the Last Slave
    • By: Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston
    • Narrated by: Deborah G. Plant, Robin Miles
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis, who was abducted from Africa on the last 'Black Cargo' ship to arrive in the United States....

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    • By: Rita Roberts
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 30-05-23
    • Language: English
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    • Against the backdrop of bloody battles and political maneuvering, thousands of African Americans spent the Civil War trying to hold their families together. This moving book illuminates that struggle through the letters exchanged by African Americans before, during, and just after the war.

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    • The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
    • By: Douglas A. Blackmon
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 31-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history.....

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    • The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
    • By: Matthew F. Delmont
    • Narrated by: William DeMeritt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 18-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and educational opportunities on their return home....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Mussolini's War in Abyssinia (African History)
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-23
    • Language: English
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    • The Italians were defeated at Adwa in 1898. But by 1935, they were playing for keeps. Learn more about the devastating Italian invasion of Ethiopia....

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