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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- An African Childhood
- By: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....
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Beautiful
- By Anonymous User on 25-10-2024
By: Alexandra Fuller
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Breaker Morant
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Cameron Goodall
- Length: 23 hrs and 4 mins
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The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero....
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Not bad for an old fella
- By Geoff Alford on 31-03-2021
By: Peter FitzSimons
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
- A Soldier's War in Northern Ireland, Rhodesia, Mozambique and Iraq
- By: Gregory Michael Budd, Jake Harper-Ronald
- Narrated by: Pat Devon
- Length: 23 hrs and 54 mins
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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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My past
- By Anonymous User on 04-05-2025
By: Gregory Michael Budd, and others
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Cobalt Red
- How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
- 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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Extremely insightful
- By Anonymous User on 14-03-2025
By: Siddharth Kara
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Congo Mercenary
- By: Mike Hoare
- Narrated by: Mike Hoare
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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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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High Adventure in darkest Africa
- By Fly-GT on 26-02-2023
By: Mike Hoare
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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures
- 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....
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Amazing story, well perfomed
- By Vlado on 23-09-2024
By: J. H. Patterson
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- An African Childhood
- By: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....
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Beautiful
- By Anonymous User on 25-10-2024
By: Alexandra Fuller
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Breaker Morant
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Cameron Goodall
- Length: 23 hrs and 4 mins
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The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero....
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Not bad for an old fella
- By Geoff Alford on 31-03-2021
By: Peter FitzSimons
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
- A Soldier's War in Northern Ireland, Rhodesia, Mozambique and Iraq
- By: Gregory Michael Budd, Jake Harper-Ronald
- Narrated by: Pat Devon
- Length: 23 hrs and 54 mins
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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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My past
- By Anonymous User on 04-05-2025
By: Gregory Michael Budd, and others
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Cobalt Red
- How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
- 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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Extremely insightful
- By Anonymous User on 14-03-2025
By: Siddharth Kara
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Congo Mercenary
- By: Mike Hoare
- Narrated by: Mike Hoare
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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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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High Adventure in darkest Africa
- By Fly-GT on 26-02-2023
By: Mike Hoare
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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures
- 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....
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Amazing story, well perfomed
- By Vlado on 23-09-2024
By: J. H. Patterson
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Rhodesian Bush War
- Decolonization, Conflict, and Nationhood in Southern Africa (Savage Civil Wars of the 20th Century: Revolutions, Resistance, and the Fight for Power)
- By: Daniel Wrinn
- Narrated by: Daniel Wrinn
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
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The Rhodesian Bush War (1964–1979) was a brutal and protracted guerrilla conflict that ultimately led to the end of white minority rule in Rhodesia and the birth of Zimbabwe.
By: Daniel Wrinn
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Rhino War
- By: Tony Park, Johan Jooste
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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In 2012 retired South African general Johan Jooste was parachuted into the seemingly unwinnable war against rhino poaching in the Kruger National Park....
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It shouldn't be this hard to protect Rhinos
- By Mitchell J. Hall on 25-07-2024
By: Tony Park, and others
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Cave of Bones
- 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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The exciting pursuit of Homo Naledi.
- By Matthew kellett on 15-10-2024
By: Lee Berger, and others
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Black Africa
- The Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State
- 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.....
By: Cheikh Diop
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Formation
- The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation
- By: Fola Fagbule, Feyi Fawehinmi
- Narrated by: Elnathan John
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation tracks the unlikely series of events and characters that turned a collection of disparate nations into a British colony in 1914....
By: Fola Fagbule, and others
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The Yoruba People
- A Captivating Guide to the History of the Yorubas and Yoruba Mythology
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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Learn about one of the largest people groups in Africa! The Yorubas are an interesting people with a rich cultural heritage that can be traced back to many centuries ago. The history of the Yorubas is one of Africa’s most researched and analyzed histories....
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Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War
- By: Deneys Reitz
- Narrated by: John Maytham
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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In 1899, Deneys Reitz, then aged seventeen, enlisted in the Boer army to fight the British. He had learnt to ride, shoot and swim almost as soon as he could walk. When he fought as a member several Boer commandos, he made full use of these skills and the endurance he acquired during the war.
By: Deneys Reitz
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Hitler’s South African Spies
- Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa
- By: Evert Kleynhans
- Narrated by: Adrian Galley
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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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....
By: Evert Kleynhans
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African Origin of Civilization - The Myth or Reality
- 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....
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Very deep book
- By Wien on 24-07-2023
By: Cheikh Anta Diop
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Kaffir Boy
- The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
- By: Mark Mathabane
- Narrated by: Mark Mathabane
- Length: 18 hrs and 33 mins
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Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa’s most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage....
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Wonderful!
- By Anonymous User on 12-10-2017
By: Mark Mathabane
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The 21
- A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs
- By: Martin Mosebach
- Narrated by: Creative Orthodox
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes....
By: Martin Mosebach
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White Malice
- The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
- By: Susan Williams
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
- Length: 21 hrs and 14 mins
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A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US....
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Excellent
- By Tracee on 10-04-2023
By: Susan Williams
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White Mischief
- The Murder of Lord Erroll
- By: James Fox
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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The riveting true story of decadence, deception, and murder among British aristocrats in colonial Kenya....
By: James Fox
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White Hunters
- 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....
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Very interesting
- By Christo Saggers on 28-02-2024
By: Brian Herne
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In God's Path
- The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
- 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....
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Was Islam spread "by the sword"?
- By David Schutz on 12-06-2015
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The Boer War
- By: Winston Churchill
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
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Churchill tells the story of how he escaped and made a daring overland crossing, travelling only at night to avoid detection....
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The Lumumba Plot
- The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
- 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....
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the attention to detail and the context given for each character, organization, body and country
- By Nasser on 05-12-2023
By: Stuart A. Reid
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A Savage War of Peace
- Algeria 1954-1962
- 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....
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Completely Eurocentric perspective
- By Anonymous User on 10-11-2018
By: Alistair Horne
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The Great Anglo-Boer War
- By: Byron Farwell
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 23 hrs and 24 mins
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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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Absolutely brilliant
- By Anonymous User on 08-06-2021
By: Byron Farwell
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Rorke's Drift
- By: Adrian Greaves
- Narrated by: Paul Herzberg
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
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On 22nd January 1879 a force of 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed and destroyed the British invading force at Isandlwana, killing and ritually disemboweling more than 1,200 troops. That afternoon, the same Zulu force turned their attention on a small outpost at Rorke's Drift....
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First class
- By Geoff Alford on 13-10-2022
By: Adrian Greaves
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Benghazi: Know Thy Enemy
- A Cold Case Investigation
- By: Sarah Adams, Dave Benton
- Narrated by: Brian Sears
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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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....
By: Sarah Adams, and others
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The Desert and the Sea
- 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
- By: Michael Scott Moore
- Narrated by: Corey Snow
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
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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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absolutely fascinating
- By Richard on 14-08-2018
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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
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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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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Filled with interesting historical insights
- By John M on 04-09-2023
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Watch My Tracer
- By: Keith Chisnall
- Narrated by: Keith Chisnall
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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One man's untold story of Special Forces, including clandestine operations during the Rhodesian war. It is a story of trial, battle, friendships, and extraordinary life experiences during the bloody Rhodesian war....
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Found this to be a great book. Really interesting hearing about some of what went on in Rhodesia and beyond
- By Luke Goederee on 18-02-2025
By: Keith Chisnall