East Africa History

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    • The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign
    • By: Andrew Stewart
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Surprisingly neglected in accounts of Allied wartime triumphs, in 1941 British and Commonwealth forces completed a stunning and important victory in East Africa....

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    • By: Ernest Hemingway
    • Narrated by: Josh Lucas
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • His second major venture into nonfiction (after Death in the Afternoon, 1932), Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal....

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    • The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness
    • By: Kenneth M. Pollack
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 24-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Since the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight. They have lost many wars that by all rights they should have won, and in their best performances only ever achieved quite modest accomplishments....

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    • The History and Legacy of the Arab Slave Trade and the Indian Ocean Slave Trade
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Scott Clem
    • Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
    • Release date: 13-07-17
    • Language: English
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    • The transatlantic slave trade was founded by the Portuguese in the 15th century for the specific purpose of supplying the New World colonies with African slave labor....

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    • The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years On
    • By: Leigh Neville, Matt Eversmann - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • On October 3, 1993, Task Force Ranger was dispatched to seize two high-profile lieutenants of a Somali warlord. The mission was meant to be over within the hour. They quickly found themselves under heavy fire, and two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down....

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    • The Full Inside Story of the Spectacular Israeli Counterterrorism Strike and the Daring Rescue of 103 Hostages
    • By: William Stevenson, Uri Dan
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • The incredible story of an Israeli mission that rescued 103 hostages from a hijacked jetliner....

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    • The Inspiring Story of Ethiopia's Victory over Mussolini's Invasion, 1935-1941
    • By: Jeff Pearce, Richard Pankhurst - foreword
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 24 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • It was the war that changed everything, and yet it's been mostly forgotten: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. It dominated newspaper headlines and newsreels....

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    • Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
    • By: Stephen Kinzer
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • This book recounts the thrilling and uplifting tale of a man who defied the odds to lift himself and his country out of misery toward a more promising future....

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    • A Human History of the Mediterranean
    • By: David Abulafia
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • For over 3,000 years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilisation....

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    • The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya
    • By: Caroline Elkins
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 27-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Caroline Elkins conducted years of research to piece together this story, unearthing reams of documents and interviewing several hundred Kikuyu survivors. Britain's Gulag reveals the full savagery of the Mau Mau war and the ruthless determination with which Britain sought to control its empire.

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    • A Journey Downriver through Egypt’s past and Present
    • By: Toby Wilkinson
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A hypnotic journey in the company of one of the world's most acclaimed Egyptologists over the fabled river telling how the Nile continually brought life to an ancient civilization....

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    • From Mogadishu to the Fight Against ISIS, a Marine Special Operations Commander at War
    • By: Andrew Milburn
    • Narrated by: Andrew Milburn
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • These are the combat experiences of the first Marine to command a special operations task force, recounted against a backdrop of his journey from raw Second Lieutenant to seasoned Colonel and Task Force Commander...

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    • A Captivating Guide to Ethiopian History (African History)
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Ethiopia has a long history. It boasts one of the longest-running continuous civilizations on the planet; even the origins of humanity have been traced back to Ethiopia....

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    • 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
    • By: Michael Scott Moore
    • Narrated by: Corey Snow
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 24-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Michael Scott Moore incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates - a riveting, thoughtful exploration of foreign policy, religious extremism, and the costs of survival....

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    • The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
    • By: Robert G. Hoyland
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Madagascar, an Island Story
    • By: John Gimlette
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • A journey - both historical and contemporary - among the fantastical landscapes, beguiling creatures and isolated tribes of the world's fourth island: Madagascar....

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    • By: J. H. Patterson
    • Narrated by: Christopher Romance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • 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....

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    • A Writer's Awakening
    • By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
    • Narrated by: Benjamin A. Onyango
    • Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 29-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The incredible story of the South Asian exodus from Uganda to the UK in 1972
    • By: Lucy Fulford
    • Narrated by: Shaheen Khan
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 31-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • When Ugandan President Idi Amin expelled the country's entire Asian population in 1972, more than 28,000 people from Britain's former colony arrived on airstrips around the country and began building new lives - but their incredible stories remained largely hidden....

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