Best Sellers
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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures
- Written by: J. H. Patterson
- Narrated by: Christopher Romance
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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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....
Written by: J. H. Patterson
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White Malice
- The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
- Written by: Susan Williams
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
- Length: 21 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US....
Written by: Susan Williams
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Cobalt Red
- How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
- Written by: Siddharth Kara
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.
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Heartbreaking to know what's happening to people of Democratic Republic of Congo
- By Chandana.J on 23-08-24
Written by: Siddharth Kara
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In God's Path
- The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
- Written by: Robert G. Hoyland
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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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....
Written by: Robert G. Hoyland
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Benghazi: Know Thy Enemy
- A Cold Case Investigation
- Written by: Sarah Adams, Dave Benton
- Narrated by: Brian Sears
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
Written by: Sarah Adams,
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Africa Is Not a Country
- Notes on a Bright Continent
- Written by: Dipo Faloyin
- Narrated by: Dipo Faloyin
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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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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Super insightful
- By Sahil Bihari on 19-02-24
Written by: Dipo Faloyin
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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures
- Written by: J. H. Patterson
- Narrated by: Christopher Romance
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
Written by: J. H. Patterson
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White Malice
- The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
- Written by: Susan Williams
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
- Length: 21 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US....
Written by: Susan Williams
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Cobalt Red
- How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
- Written by: Siddharth Kara
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.
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Heartbreaking to know what's happening to people of Democratic Republic of Congo
- By Chandana.J on 23-08-24
Written by: Siddharth Kara
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In God's Path
- The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
- Written by: Robert G. Hoyland
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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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....
Written by: Robert G. Hoyland
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Benghazi: Know Thy Enemy
- A Cold Case Investigation
- Written by: Sarah Adams, Dave Benton
- Narrated by: Brian Sears
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
Written by: Sarah Adams,
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Africa Is Not a Country
- Notes on a Bright Continent
- Written by: Dipo Faloyin
- Narrated by: Dipo Faloyin
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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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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Super insightful
- By Sahil Bihari on 19-02-24
Written by: Dipo Faloyin
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Carthage Must Be Destroyed
- The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
- Written by: Richard Miles
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
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An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.....
Written by: Richard Miles
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The Lumumba Plot
- The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
- Written by: Stuart A. Reid
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
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It was supposed to be a moment of great optimism, a cause for jubilation. The Congo was at last being set free from Belgium—one of seventeen countries to gain independence in 1960 from ruling European powers....
Written by: Stuart A. Reid
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Black and British
- A Forgotten History
- Written by: David Olusoga
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 24 hrs and 27 mins
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David Olusoga's Black and British is a rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa....
Written by: David Olusoga
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Birth of a Dream Weaver
- A Writer's Awakening
- Written by: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- Narrated by: Benjamin A. Onyango
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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From one of the world’s greatest writers, the story of how the author found his voice as a novelist at Makerere University in Uganda....
Written by: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
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Cave of Bones
- Written by: Lee Berger, John Hawks
- Narrated by: Lee Berger
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa—spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens....
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Narration was fascinating
- By Shiv on 28-06-24
Written by: Lee Berger,
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Dictatorland
- The Men Who Stole Africa
- Written by: Paul Kenyon
- Narrated by: Hamilton McLeod
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
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The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces....
Written by: Paul Kenyon
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White Hunters
- Written by: Brian Herne
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
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A little over 100 years ago, East Africa was terra incognita to most whites....
Written by: Brian Herne
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The Slave Ship
- A Human History
- Written by: Marcus Rediker
- Narrated by: Cornell Womack
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
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In a chilling exploration of a nearly forgotten chapter of history, Marcus Rediker delves into the dark depths of slave ships in the 18th century.
Written by: Marcus Rediker
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Do Not Disturb
- The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
- Written by: Michela Wrong
- Narrated by: Michela Wrong
- Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
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A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after one of the deadliest genocides of the 20th century....
Written by: Michela Wrong
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Winnie and Nelson
- Portrait of a Marriage
- Written by: Jonny Steinberg
- Narrated by: Puleng Lange-Stewart
- Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
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Jonny Steinberg tells the tale of this unique marriage—its longings, its obsessions, its deceits—making South African history a captivating political biography. Winnie and Nelson is a modern epic in which trauma doesn’t affect just the couple at its center, but an entire nation....
Written by: Jonny Steinberg
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Three Famines
- Written by: Thomas Keneally
- Narrated by: Peter Byrne
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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This is the story of three terrible famines....
Written by: Thomas Keneally
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Dakshin Africano Satyagrah Itihas (Gujarati Edition)
- Written by: Mahatma Gandhi
- Narrated by: Rajul Diwan
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
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History of Satyagrah in South Africa by Mohandas K. Gandhi.
Written by: Mahatma Gandhi
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A Savage War of Peace
- Algeria 1954-1962
- Written by: Alistair Horne
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 29 hrs and 56 mins
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The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. From the perspective of half a century, it looks less like the last colonial war than the first postmodern one....
Written by: Alistair Horne
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Labyrinth of Kingdoms
- 10,000 Miles Through Islamic Africa
- Written by: Steve Kemper
- Narrated by: Ed Phillips
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
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A true story that rivals the travels of Burton or Stanley for excitement, and surpasses them in scientific achievements....
Written by: Steve Kemper
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A Short History of South Africa
- Written by: Gail Nattrass
- Narrated by: Sarah Jane Woodward
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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South Africa is popularly perceived as the most influential nation in Africa - a gateway to an entire continent for finance, trade and politics, and a crucial mediator in its neighbours’ affairs....
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The vocal presenter made it sound HORRIBLE.
- By Komal on 21-02-25
Written by: Gail Nattrass
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China's Second Continent
- How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
- Written by: Howard W. French
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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An exciting, hugely revealing account of China’s burgeoning presence in Africa - a developing empire already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people....
Written by: Howard W. French
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A Dying Colonialism
- Written by: Frantz Fanon
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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A Dying Colonialism is Frantz Fanon’s seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution....
Written by: Frantz Fanon
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The Battle for the Black Mind
- Written by: Karida L. Brown Ph.D
- Narrated by: Heni Zoutomou
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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From a NAACP award-winning historian and Fulbright scholar, a history of education in the United States from the end of the Civil War to the historic ruling of Brown v. Board of Education.
Written by: Karida L. Brown Ph.D
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Born in Africa
- The Quest for the Origins of Human Life
- Written by: Martin Meredith
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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Africa does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind....
Written by: Martin Meredith
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Black Africa
- The Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State
- Written by: Cheikh Diop
- Narrated by: Malik Johnson
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
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In "Black Africa: The Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State," Senegalese scholar Cheikh Anta Diop boldly calls for the unification of Black African nations.....
Written by: Cheikh Diop
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African Origin of Civilization - The Myth or Reality
- Written by: Cheikh Anta Diop
- Narrated by: Frank Block
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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This classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization....
Written by: Cheikh Anta Diop
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The Pirate Coast
- Thomas Jefferson, The First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
- Written by: Richard Zacks
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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After Tripoli declared war on the United States in 1801, Barbary pirates captured 300 U.S. sailors and marines....
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Too fast
- By Rahul on 19-11-21
Written by: Richard Zacks
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Mastering the West
- Rome and Carthage at War
- Written by: Dexter Hoyos
- Narrated by: Tom McElroy
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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Mastering the West offers a thoroughly engrossing narrative of this century of battle in the western Mediterranean, while treating a full range of themes....
Written by: Dexter Hoyos
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Between Man and Beast
- An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World By Storm
- Written by: Monte Reel
- Narrated by: Bob Walter
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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In 1856 Paul Du Chaillu marched into the equatorial wilderness of West Africa determined to bag an animal that, according to legend, was nothing short of a monster....
Written by: Monte Reel