African Myths

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    • By: Ron Carver
    • Narrated by: John Griffith
    • Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 22-11-19
    • Language: English
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    • Hear about the creation of the universe, plants, animals, and finally, the woman first and the man second (how ironic). You’ll find out what significance a tortoise made in one particular African myth, why and how the sex goddess was worshipped and feared, and much more....

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    • The Origins and History of Legends and Myths Across Africa
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Daniel Houle
    • Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-20
    • Language: English
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    • The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history....

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    • By: Stephen Belcher
    • Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
    • Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 25-03-21
    • Language: English
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    • Gathering a wide range of traditional African myths, this compelling new collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance and desperate migrations across vast and alien lands....

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    • Captivating Myths of Gods, Goddesses, and Legendary Creatures of Africa
    • By: Matt Clayton
    • Narrated by: Mike Reaves
    • Length: 3 hrs
    • Release date: 15-04-20
    • Language: English
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    • In African Mythology: Captivating Myths of Gods, Goddesses, and Legendary Creatures of Africa, you'll find variety of African myths and topics covered....

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    • How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women
    • By: Marita Golden
    • Narrated by: Diana Blue
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 26-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Black women face a hidden mental health crisis of anxiety and depression. To be a Black woman in America is to know that you cannot protect your children or guarantee their safety, that your value is consistently questioned, and that even being "twice as good" is often not good enough....

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    • By: Nnedi Okorafor
    • Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
    • Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
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    • Award-winning Nnedi Okorafor, acclaimed for her Akata novels, introduces a new and engaging hero in her first novel for middle-grade listeners set against a richly textured background of contemporary Nigeria....

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    • A Story from Botswana
    • By: Jenny Robson
    • Narrated by: Maria Pendolino
    • Length: 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Precious is not looking forward to being a donkey in the school play. Precious thinks donkeys look silly and smell bad, that is, until Grandfather comes to visit on his donkey cart. Grandfather teaches Precious that donkeys are much than they seem—they are hardworking, loyal, and kind.

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    • By: Pat Betteley
    • Narrated by: Maria Pendolino
    • Length: 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • A careless son named Mohamed loses his inheritance and then makes a hasty business deal with his father's former rival. Knowing he is doomed, Mohamed attempts to end his life. A princess intervenes and solves Mohamed's dilemma.

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    • A Kenyan Folk Tale
    • By: April Lesher
    • Narrated by: Michael Gillick
    • Length: 7 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • The bad-tempered sultan of Kenya is angry because a peasant boy's garden will grow, while his own will not. The boy Imani teaches him that feeding the plants meat of the tongue—singing, laughter, and love—will help them to grow.

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    • Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth
    • By: Jermaine Fowler
    • Narrated by: Jermaine Fowler
    • Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This sweeping survey of Black history shows how Black humanity has been erased and how its recovery can save the humanity of us all....

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    • The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth
    • By: Kevin M. Levin
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-09-19
    • Language: English
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    • More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army....

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    • What if All the Stories Were Real?
    • By: Lenny Henry, Keenon Ferrell - illustrator
    • Narrated by: Lenny Henry
    • Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Lenny Henry's brilliant second novel, The Book of Legends, two ordinary kids are about to go on one extraordinary adventure....

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    • Captivating Myths and Legends of the Yoruba and Other West African Peoples
    • By: Matt Clayton
    • Narrated by: Michael Reaves
    • Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 24-02-23
    • Language: English
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    • Containing delightful stories from the Yoruba and other West African peoples, this book presents tales of courage and cunning, virtue and vice, and fortunes found and lost....

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    • Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
    • By: Tom Burrell
    • Narrated by: Sylvester Brown Jr.
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-20
    • Language: English
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    • "Black people are not dark-skinned white people", says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are much more. They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds....

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