African Wars

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    • By: Byron Farwell
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 17-01-19
    • Language: English
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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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    • 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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    • Stories and Poems from the Front Line
    • By: Lindsey Hilsum
    • Narrated by: Lindsey Hilsum, Mikhail Sen, Nadia Albina
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 19-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • In nearly four decades as a journalist covering conflict from Rwanda to Kosovo to Palestine, Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum has always carried a book of poetry. In Ukraine, she tweeted a poem a day, and people began to read, to share, to ask for more.

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    • Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa
    • By: Evert Kleynhans
    • Narrated by: Adrian Galley
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 16-04-21
    • Language: English
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    • The story of the intelligence war in South Africa during the Second World War is one of suspense, drama and dogged persistence....

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    • By: Embassie Susberry
    • Narrated by: Nerissa Bradley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • Inspired by the incredible true story of Josephine Baker in the French Resistance, this is a heart-wrenching, unforgettable tale of the strength of the human spirit in the darkest days of World War II....

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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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    • 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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    • A Reporter’s Marriage Amid a Central African War
    • By: Anjan Sundaram
    • Narrated by: Anjan Sundaram
    • Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • After ten years of reporting from Central Africa, journalist Anjan Sundaram finds himself living a quiet life in Canada with his wife and newborn. But when word arrives of preparations for a genocide in the Central African Republic, he is suddenly torn between his duty as a husband and father....

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    • The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad
    • By: Jacqueline Tobin, Hettie Jones
    • Narrated by: Richard Allen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 13-08-10
    • Language: English
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    • The Underground Railroad was the passage to freedom for many slaves, but it was rife with dangers....

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    • Mississippi's Longest Civil War
    • By: Victoria E. Bynum
    • Narrated by: Mahershala Ali
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-16
    • Language: English
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    • Actor Mahershala Ali performs the gripping tale of an armed band of Confederate deserters and slaves living in a mixed-race community who rose up against the Confederate Cavalry in 1863....

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    • Racism, Romance and Gone with the Wind
    • By: Patricia Williams
    • Narrated by: Patricia Williams
    • Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 29-04-21
    • Language: English
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    • In Giving a Damn, the legal scholar Patricia Williams finds that when you begin to unpick current debates around immigration, freedom of speech, the culture wars and wall-building, beneath them lies the unexamined history of enslavement in the West....

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    • Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers
    • By: Paul Stillwell
    • Narrated by: Alan Bomar Jones
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 16-11-10
    • Language: English
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    • In January 1944, 16 Black enlisted men gathered at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station to begin a course that would turn them into the US Navy's first African American officers on active duty....

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    • A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
    • By: W. Caleb McDaniel
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 14-01-20
    • Language: English
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    • Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage....

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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 Concise History
    • By: Allen C. Guelzo
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-18
    • Language: English
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    • The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. Reconstruction suffered from poor leadership and uncertainty of direction, but it also laid the groundwork for renewed struggles for racial equality during the civil rights movement....

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    • The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
    • By: Andrew Ward
    • Narrated by: Richard Allen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 22-07-08
    • Language: English
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    • The Slaves' War delivers an unprecedented vision of the nation's bloodiest conflict....

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    • The Lost Story of Enslaved Africans, their Arabic Letters, and an American President
    • By: Jeffrey Einboden
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-20
    • Language: English
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    • On October 3, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was contacted by an unknown traveler urgently pleading for a private "interview" with the president. By the next day, Jefferson held in his hands two astonishing manuscripts whose history has been lost for over two centuries....

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