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White Malice
- The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
- Auteur(s): Susan Williams
- Narrateur(s): Chanté McCormick
- Durée: 21 h et 14 min
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Histoire
A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US....
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Cobalt Red
- How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
- Auteur(s): Siddharth Kara
- Narrateur(s): Peter Ganim
- Durée: 11 h et 18 min
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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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So important.
- Écrit par Kaitlin M le 2023-03-13
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Shake Hands with the Devil
- The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
- Auteur(s): Romeo Dallaire
- Narrateur(s): Marcel Jeannin
- Durée: 21 h et 11 min
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A brave, unforgettable first-hand account of the Rwandan genocide by a man almost literally haunted by the dead and by the spectre of his mission's failure. Marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of this horrific event, this edition includes a new note from Roméo Dallaire....
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A history sign post!
- Écrit par David Unger le 2021-04-05
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Africa Is Not a Country
- Notes on a Bright Continent
- Auteur(s): Dipo Faloyin
- Narrateur(s): Dipo Faloyin
- Durée: 9 h et 24 min
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Histoire
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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A great, much needs book
- Écrit par Bryan G Birch le 2024-08-24
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The Golden Rhinoceros
- Histories of the African Middle Ages
- Auteur(s): François-Xavier Fauvelle, Troy Tice - translator
- Narrateur(s): Michael Page
- Durée: 7 h et 16 min
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Histoire
A leading historian reconstructs the forgotten history of medieval Africa....
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Necessarily Fragmentary
- Écrit par Alexandre Lariviere le 2021-02-25
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The Fortunes of Africa
- A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor
- Auteur(s): Martin Meredith
- Narrateur(s): Kevin Stillwell
- Durée: 26 h et 36 min
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Histoire
A sweeping history of the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other treasures from Africa and its people....
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Very eye opening.
- Écrit par Derwyn le 2020-11-17
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White Malice
- The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
- Auteur(s): Susan Williams
- Narrateur(s): Chanté McCormick
- Durée: 21 h et 14 min
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Histoire
A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US....
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Cobalt Red
- How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
- Auteur(s): Siddharth Kara
- Narrateur(s): Peter Ganim
- Durée: 11 h et 18 min
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Histoire
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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So important.
- Écrit par Kaitlin M le 2023-03-13
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Shake Hands with the Devil
- The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
- Auteur(s): Romeo Dallaire
- Narrateur(s): Marcel Jeannin
- Durée: 21 h et 11 min
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Histoire
A brave, unforgettable first-hand account of the Rwandan genocide by a man almost literally haunted by the dead and by the spectre of his mission's failure. Marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of this horrific event, this edition includes a new note from Roméo Dallaire....
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A history sign post!
- Écrit par David Unger le 2021-04-05
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Africa Is Not a Country
- Notes on a Bright Continent
- Auteur(s): Dipo Faloyin
- Narrateur(s): Dipo Faloyin
- Durée: 9 h et 24 min
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Histoire
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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A great, much needs book
- Écrit par Bryan G Birch le 2024-08-24
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The Golden Rhinoceros
- Histories of the African Middle Ages
- Auteur(s): François-Xavier Fauvelle, Troy Tice - translator
- Narrateur(s): Michael Page
- Durée: 7 h et 16 min
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Histoire
A leading historian reconstructs the forgotten history of medieval Africa....
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Necessarily Fragmentary
- Écrit par Alexandre Lariviere le 2021-02-25
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The Fortunes of Africa
- A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor
- Auteur(s): Martin Meredith
- Narrateur(s): Kevin Stillwell
- Durée: 26 h et 36 min
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Histoire
A sweeping history of the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other treasures from Africa and its people....
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Very eye opening.
- Écrit par Derwyn le 2020-11-17
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The Great Anglo-Boer War
- Auteur(s): Byron Farwell
- Narrateur(s): Nigel Patterson
- Durée: 23 h et 24 min
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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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China's Second Continent
- How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
- Auteur(s): Howard W. French
- Narrateur(s): Don Hagen
- Durée: 10 h et 31 min
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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....
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The Forgotten Era
- Nigeria Before British Rule
- Auteur(s): Max Siollun
- Narrateur(s): Ben Onwukwe
- Durée: 13 h et 56 min
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This story of a dynamic and artistic people is a vital listen for those who want to discover a forgotten era of West Africa.
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Ancient African Kingdoms
- 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
- Auteur(s): Captivating History
- Narrateur(s): Jason Zenobia
- Durée: 7 h et 30 min
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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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The Last Slave Ship
- The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
- Auteur(s): Ben Raines
- Narrateur(s): Kevin R. Free
- Durée: 8 h et 10 min
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Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The ship was scuttled and burned on arrival to hide the wealthy perpetrators to escape prosecution....
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Excellent
- Écrit par Schvenn le 2024-03-23
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Mansa Musa and the Empire of Mali
- Musa’s Development of Timbuktu and His Legacy as the Richest Man in the World
- Auteur(s): Jason Watson
- Narrateur(s): Cassius Bunyan
- Durée: 1 h et 35 min
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Africa in the 13th century lay in ruins due to countless civil wars and the ensuing famine. Amid the hopelessness arose a man who began to rebuild the ravaged diaspora....
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Mansa Musa and Timbuktu: A Fascinating History from Beginning to End
- Auteur(s): World Changing History
- Narrateur(s): Darseaux James
- Durée: 1 h et 41 min
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On the West coast of Africa there once, the Mali empire in its Golden Age was once bigger than the entirety of Western Europe put together, made possible by the efforts of one man Mansa Musa the Sultan of Mali....
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Good story of notable Blacks
- Écrit par Afeez le 2021-09-06
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Biafra
- The History and Legacy of the Secessionist Republic of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War
- Auteur(s): Charles River Editors
- Narrateur(s): Bill Hare
- Durée: 1 h et 19 min
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Nigeria was an unpopular destination for European settlement, thanks to its punishing climate and proliferation of tropical disease....
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Into Africa
- The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
- Auteur(s): Martin Dugard
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
- Durée: 11 h et 46 min
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"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"....
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Read it many times before but the narrator...
- Écrit par GrandTour le 2018-11-25
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White Hunters
- Auteur(s): Brian Herne
- Narrateur(s): Robert Whitfield
- Durée: 14 h et 20 min
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A little over 100 years ago, East Africa was terra incognita to most whites....
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Born in Blackness
- Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
- Auteur(s): Howard W. French
- Narrateur(s): James Fouhey
- Durée: 16 h et 49 min
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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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Excellent Overview
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2022-05-22
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The Lumumba Plot
- The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
- Auteur(s): Stuart A. Reid
- Narrateur(s): Michael Boatman
- Durée: 18 h et 15 min
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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....
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Lumumba
- Écrit par Rick Reid le 2024-05-02
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Congo Mercenary
- Auteur(s): Mike Hoare
- Narrateur(s): Mike Hoare
- Durée: 13 h et 39 min
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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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Narrated by the author, and WELL!
- Écrit par W.Sobchak le 2021-03-06
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Churchill in Africa
- London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
- Auteur(s): Winston Spencer Churchill
- Narrateur(s): Nigel Carrington
- Durée: 8 h et 47 min
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This small book is mainly a personal record of my adventures and impressions during the first five months of the African War....
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
- A Soldier's War in Northern Ireland, Rhodesia, Mozambique and Iraq
- Auteur(s): Gregory Michael Budd, Jake Harper-Ronald
- Narrateur(s): Pat Devon
- Durée: 23 h et 54 min
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Men in the furnace of adversity… Step into the extraordinary life of Jake Harper-Ronald, a man whose childhood dream of becoming a soldier led him on an unparalleled journey.
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
- Stories from Rwanda
- Auteur(s): Philip Gourevitch
- Narrateur(s): Philip Gourevitch
- Durée: 10 h et 23 min
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An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity....
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Do Not Disturb
- The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
- Auteur(s): Michela Wrong
- Narrateur(s): Michela Wrong
- Durée: 18 h et 2 min
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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....
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River of the Gods
- Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
- Auteur(s): Candice Millard
- Narrateur(s): Paul Michael
- Durée: 10 h et 2 min
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For millennia the location of the Nile River’s headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the 19th century, there was a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. At the same time, European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe....
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Disappointing.
- Écrit par Graham Henderson le 2023-02-27
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Histoire de l’Afrique du XIXe siècle
- Le Siècle des révolutions
- Auteur(s): Anne Hugon
- Narrateur(s): Anne Hugon
- Durée: 3 h et 30 min
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Les Presses Universitaires de France et Frémeaux & Associés proposent cette histoire de l’Afrique du xixe siècle, analysée et expliquée par Anne Hugon...
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Inside the Hotel Rwanda
- The Surprising True Story…and Why It Matters Today
- Auteur(s): Edouard Kayihura, Kerry Zukus
- Narrateur(s): Mirron Willis, Rosalind Ashford
- Durée: 10 h et 48 min
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Inside the Hotel Rwanda offers an honest and unflinching first-hand account of the reality of life inside the hotel, exposing the man who exploited refugees....
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Flight of the Diamond Smugglers
- A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa
- Auteur(s): Matthew Gavin Frank
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Yen
- Durée: 7 h et 39 min
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For nearly 80 years, a huge portion of coastal South Africa was closed off to the public. With many of its pits now deemed "overmined" and abandoned, journalist Matthew Gavin Frank sets out across the infamous Diamond Coast to investigate an illicit trade that supplies a global market....
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Carthage Must Be Destroyed
- The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
- Auteur(s): Richard Miles
- Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
- Durée: 14 h et 9 min
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An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.....
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Mansa Musa and Timbuktu
- The History of the West African Emperor and Medieval Africa's Most Fabled City
- Auteur(s): Charles River Editors
- Narrateur(s): Dan Gallagher
- Durée: 1 h et 9 min
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Recent research has revealed that the richest person of all time lived in the 14th century in West Africa and went by many names, including Kankan Musa Keita, Emir of Melle, Lord of the Mines of Wangara, Conqueror of Ghanata, and the Lion of Mali II....
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Benghazi: Know Thy Enemy
- A Cold Case Investigation
- Auteur(s): Sarah Adams, Dave Benton
- Narrateur(s): Brian Sears
- Durée: 8 h et 45 min
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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....
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History repeating itself
- Écrit par Dominus le 2024-07-13