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Zimbabwe
- Years of Hope and Despair
- By: Philip Barclay
- Narrated by: Eric Brooks
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Zimbabwe is a country both blessed and cursed. Arriving to work at the British Embassy in Zimbabwe, Philip Barclay found a temperate paradise and a sophisticated and charming population. But during a three-year stay in what used to be Africa's finest country, he saw it ruined by violence and grotesque economic mismanagement. Philip Barclay was at the centre of the tumultuous events of 2008.
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Great book
- By Anonymous on 13-11-2025
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Zimbabwe
- Years of Hope and Despair
- Narrated by: Eric Brooks
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-03-2013
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Runs
- The Odyssey of Julius Achon
- By: John Brant
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation by way of Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run, this is the inspirational true story of the Ugandan boy soldier who became a world-renowned runner, then found his calling as director of a world-renowned African children’s charity...
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The Boy Who Runs
- The Odyssey of Julius Achon
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 16-08-2016
- Language: English
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A Short History of the Gaza Strip
- By: Anne Irfan
- Narrated by: Nadia Albina
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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‘An excellent primer . . . essential reading’ GUARDIAN * The world’s eyes are on the Gaza Strip. After more than a year of Israeli military bombardment, it is the scene of unimaginable destruction. It is also one of the most politically significant territories on the planet. Yet how many...
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A Short History of the Gaza Strip
- Narrated by: Nadia Albina
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 28-08-2025
- Language: English
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Good Morning, Mr. Mandela
- A Memoir
- By: Zelda la Grange
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Zelda la Grange
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A white Afrikaner, Zelda la Grange grew up in segregated South Africa, supporting the regime and the rules of apartheid. Her conservative family referred to the imprisoned Nelson Mandela as "a terrorist". Yet just a few years after his release and the end of apartheid, she would be traveling the world by Mr. Mandela’s side, having grown to respect and cherish the man she would come to call "Khulu", or "Grandfather".
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Excellent heartfelt review of Zelda La Grange’s consequential role with Mandela
- By Greg Morris on 04-01-2026
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Good Morning, Mr. Mandela
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Zelda la Grange
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 30-06-2014
- Language: English
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The Crown’s Silence
- The Hidden History of Slavery and the British Monarchy
- By: Brooke Newman
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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A ground-breaking and essential work of history – the first of its kind to closely examine the British Royal Family’s connection with the transatlantic slave trade The Crown's Silence is the untold story of the British royal family’s relationship to slavery from the reign of Elizabeth I to...
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The Crown’s Silence
- The Hidden History of Slavery and the British Monarchy
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 29-01-2026
- Language: English
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Shifting Sands
- A Human History of the Sahara
- By: Judith Scheele
- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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An expansive history of the Sahara from prehistory to the present that shows how Saharans have, over time, built complex and cosmopolitan lives despite scarcity, conquest, and the relentless challenges of the desert environment What comes to mind when we think about the Sahara? Rippling sand...
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Shifting Sands
- A Human History of the Sahara
- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 03-06-2025
- Language: English
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The Battle for North Africa
- El Alamein and the Turning Point for World War II (Twentieth-Century Battles)
- By: Glyn Harper
- Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In the early years of World War II, Germany shocked the world with a devastating blitzkrieg, rapidly conquered most of Europe, and pushed into North Africa. As the Allies scrambled to counter the Axis armies, the British Eighth Army confronted the experienced Afrika Corps, led by German field marshal Erwin Rommel, in three battles at El Alamein. In the first battle, the Eighth Army narrowly halted the advance of the Germans during the summer of 1942. However, the stalemate left Nazi troops within striking distance of the Suez Canal, which would provide a critical tactical advantage to the controlling force. War historian Glyn Harper dives into the story, vividly narrating the events, strategies, and personalities surrounding the battles and paying particular attention to the Second Battle of El Alamein, a crucial turning point in the war that would be described by Winston Churchill as "the end of the beginning."
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American English
- By Michael on 16-08-2018
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The Battle for North Africa
- El Alamein and the Turning Point for World War II (Twentieth-Century Battles)
- Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 09-04-2018
- Language: English
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Inside the Hotel Rwanda
- The Surprising True Story…and Why It Matters Today
- By: Edouard Kayihura, Kerry Zukus
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis, Rosalind Ashford
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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For the first time, learn what really happened inside the walls of Hotel des Mille Collines. In Inside the Hotel Rwanda, survivor Edouard Kayihura tells his own personal story of what life was really like during those harrowing days within the walls of that infamous hotel and offers the testimonies of others who survived there, from Hutu and Tutsi to UN peacekeepers. Kayihura writes of a divided society and his journey to the place he believed would be safe from slaughter.
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amazing story
- By Kerry Morley on 28-11-2024
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Inside the Hotel Rwanda
- The Surprising True Story…and Why It Matters Today
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis, Rosalind Ashford
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 08-07-2014
- Language: English
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War of Shadows
- Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East
- By: Gershom Gorenberg
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In this World War II military history, Rommel's army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv, and the SS is ready for action. Espionage brought the Nazis this far, but espionage can stop them—if Washington wakes up to the danger. As World War II raged in North Africa, General Erwin Rommel...
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War of Shadows
- Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 29-01-2021
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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Commando is more than a historical document. With prose that captures both the brutality and the beauty of war, Reitz weaves a narrative that resonates with authenticity, transcending time. As relevant today as when it was first penned, Commando has become a South African classic and stands as a testament to the indomitable human spirit in the face of adversity.
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Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War
- Narrated by: John Maytham
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 24-07-2024
- Language: English
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Rising Heart: One Woman's Astonishing Journey from Unimaginable Trauma to Becoming a Power for Good
- By: Aminata Conteh-Biger, Juliet Rieden
- Narrated by: Zindzi Okenyo
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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'The best and the worst of our shared humanity...breathtaking and heartbreaking.' The Hon. Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO One woman's astonishing journey from unimaginable trauma to becoming a power for good. In 1999, Sierra Leone was in the midst of a brutal civil war where mindless violence...
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I couldn’t turn it off - The queen of grit and grace!
- By Julie Orton on 28-08-2020
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Rising Heart: One Woman's Astonishing Journey from Unimaginable Trauma to Becoming a Power for Good
- Narrated by: Zindzi Okenyo
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 25-08-2020
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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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. With over 150 attackers at the Consulate alone, the attack was the largest terrorist attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in history. And yet, the case remained unsolved. The terrorists were never brought to justice because they had not been identified until now.
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Benghazi: Know Thy Enemy
- A Cold Case Investigation
- Narrated by: Brian Sears
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 28-12-2023
- Language: English
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Born in Blackness
- 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
- Unabridged
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Born in Blackness vitally reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in the West, and the fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals all grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent. In fact, French reveals, the first impetus for the Age of Discovery was not—as we are so often told, even today—Europe's yearning for ties with Asia, but rather its centuries-old desire to forge a trade in gold with legendarily rich Black societies in the heart of West Africa.
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Born in Blackness
- Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 12-04-2022
- Language: English
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The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu
- The Quest for this Storied City and the Race to Save Its Treasures
- By: Charlie English
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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‘An exemplary work of investigative journalism that is also a wonderfully colourful book of history and travel’ Observer, Books of the Year ‘A piece of postmodern historiography of quite extraordinary sophistication and ingenuity… [written with] exceptional delicacy and restraint’ TLS...
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interesting read
- By Anonymous on 30-07-2022
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The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu
- The Quest for this Storied City and the Race to Save Its Treasures
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 04-05-2017
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of Apartheid
- From Racial Domination to Majority Rule
- By: David Welsh
- Narrated by: Gary Rundle
- Length: 26 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Did white South Africa crack, or did its leadership yield sufficiently, and just in time, to avert a revolution? The transformation has been called a miracle, belying gloomy predictions of race war in which the white minority went into a laager and fought to the last drop of blood. Why did it happen? David Welsh views the topic against the backdrop of a long history of conflict spanning apartheid's rise and demise and the liberation movement's suppression and subsequent resurrection.
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The Rise and Fall of Apartheid
- From Racial Domination to Majority Rule
- Narrated by: Gary Rundle
- Length: 26 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 24-02-2020
- Language: English
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Langbourne's Empire
- The Langbourne Series
- By: Alan P. Landau
- Narrated by: Adrian Galley
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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It is 1894 in the remote settlement of Bulawayo, in what later became Southern Rhodesia. Recent immigrants from Ireland, Morris and David Langbourne throw body and soul into rebuilding their previously devastated business. Between Morris' brilliant business acumen and David's almost limitless energy, their future looks very promising as they take massive financial and logistical risks and look forward to a booming business in the backwoods of beyond.
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Langbourne's Empire
- The Langbourne Series
- Narrated by: Adrian Galley
- Series: The Langbourne Series, Book 3
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 23-03-2017
- Language: English
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The Garden of Mars
- Madagascar, an Island Story
- By: John Gimlette
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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An improbable world beckons. We think we know Madagascar, but it's too big, too eccentric and too impenetrable to be truly understood. If it was stretched out across Europe, the islands would reach from London to Algiers, and yet its road network is barely bigger than tiny Jamaica's. There is no evidence of any human life until about 10,000 years ago, and, when eventually people settled, it was migrants from Borneo - 3,700 miles away - who came out on top.
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Extraordinary
- By James Wilson on 26-02-2026
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The Garden of Mars
- Madagascar, an Island Story
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 07-01-2021
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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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, North Africa, and Spain. Their armies threatened states as far flung as the Franks in Western Europe and the Tang Empire in China. The conquered territory was larger than the Roman Empire at its greatest expansion, and it was claimed for the Arabs in roughly half the time.
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Was Islam spread "by the sword"?
- By David Schutz on 12-06-2015
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In God's Path
- The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 08-12-2014
- Language: English
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Mike Hoare's Adventures in Africa
- By: Mike Hoare
- Narrated by: Mike Hoare
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Go with Mike on foot accros Basutoland; by motorbike from Cape Town to Cairo; to sea in a 36-foot ketch; into the Kalahari desert - and more. In the final chapter he describes how he and his wife move to an Edenic island in the Okovanga delta, and the terrible and wonderful events that took place there.
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Mike Hoare's Adventures in Africa
- Narrated by: Mike Hoare
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 14-12-2012
- Language: English
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A Short History of South Africa
- By: Gail Nattrass
- Narrated by: Sarah Jane Woodward
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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A Short History of South Africa is a brief, general account of the history of this most complicated and fascinating country - from the first evidence of hominid existence to the wars of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries that led to the establishment of modern South Africa, the horrors of Apartheid and the optimism following its collapse, as well as the prospects and challenges for the future. This highly listenable account is the culmination of a lifetime of researching and teaching the broad spectrum of South African history.
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A Short History of South Africa
- Narrated by: Sarah Jane Woodward
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 16-07-2019
- Language: English
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