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The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
- By: Nelson Mandela
- Narrated by: Atandwa Kani
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
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Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, 44-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next 27 years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration, Mandela wrote hundreds of letters to unyielding prison authorities, fellow activists, government officials, and, most memorably, his courageous wife, Winnie, and his five children. Now, 255 of these letters, a majority of which were previously unpublished, provide the most intimate portrait of Mandela since Long Walk to Freedom.
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The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
- Narrated by: Atandwa Kani
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 10-07-2018
- Language: English
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A Fair Country
- By: Jon Robin Baitz
- Narrated by: Judith Ivey, David Dukes, Matt McGrath
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
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A well-meaning American diplomat in South Africa tries to pacify his ferociously combative wife and anti-apartheid activist son by being reassigned to The Hague. But peace is hard to come by and, at an elegant New Year's Eve party, a harrowing betrayal is revealed. Judith Ivey recreates her acclaimed performance from the Lincoln Center production in this masterful drama from the author of The Substance of Fire.
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A Fair Country
- Narrated by: Judith Ivey, David Dukes, Matt McGrath
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Release date: 11-03-2008
- Language: English
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Refractive Africa
- Ballet of the Forgotten
- By: Will Alexander
- Narrated by: Will Alexander
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
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“The poet is endemic with life itself,” Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, he has exemplified this vital candescence with a transpersonal amplification worthy of the Cambrian explosion. “This being the ballet of the forgotten,” he writes as diasporic witness, “of refracted boundary points as venom.” The volume’s opening poem pays homage to the innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author Amos Tutuola; it ends with an encomium to the modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo.
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Refractive Africa
- Ballet of the Forgotten
- Narrated by: Will Alexander
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 27-06-2023
- Language: English
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Petit pays suivi d'un entretien avec l'auteur
- By: Gaël Faye
- Narrated by: Gaël Faye
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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Avant, Gabriel faisait les quatre cents coups avec ses copains dans leur coin de paradis. Et puis l'harmonie familiale s'est disloquée en même temps que son "petit pays", le Burundi, ce bout d'Afrique centrale brutalement malmené par l'Histoire. Plus tard, Gabriel fait revivre un monde à jamais perdu. Les battements de cœur et les souffles coupés, les pensées profondes et les rires déployés, le parfum de citronnelle, les termites les jours d'orage, les jacarandas en fleur.
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Petit pays suivi d'un entretien avec l'auteur
- Narrated by: Gaël Faye
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 30-11-2016
- Language: French
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Growing Up African in Australia
- By: Maxine Beneba Clarke
- Narrated by: Ahmed Yussuf, Candy Bowers, Faustina Agolley, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Learning to kick a football in a suburban schoolyard. Finding your feet as a young black dancer. Discovering your grandfather’s poetry. Meeting Nelson Mandela at your local church. Facing racism from those who should protect you. Dreading a visit to the hairdresser. House-hopping across the suburbs. Being too black. Not being black enough. Singing to find your soul, and then losing yourself. Welcome to African Australia. Compiled by award-winning author Maxine Beneba Clarke, with curatorial assistance from writers Ahmed Yussuf and Magan Maga.
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Generally good book but sometimes hard to listen
- By Sally on 18-09-2021
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Growing Up African in Australia
- Narrated by: Ahmed Yussuf, Candy Bowers, Faustina Agolley, Magan Magan, Manal Younus, Muma Doesa, Rebekha Robertson, Santilla Chingaipe, Tariro Mavondo, Thuso Lekwape
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 01-05-2019
- Language: English
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The Cairo Trilogy (Dramatised)
- By: Naguib Mahfouz
- Narrated by: Omar Sharif
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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Omar Sharif leads an all-Egyptian cast in this three-part drama, recorded entirely in Egypt's capital. Adapted from Naguib Mahfouz's novels, this is a gripping family saga, with a monstrous father, a loving mother, and four children. It is set in seductive Cairo from 1917 to 1953, against a backdrop of political upheaval.
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The Cairo Trilogy (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Omar Sharif
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 18-07-2007
- Language: English
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Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
- By: Nelson Mandela - editor
- Narrated by: Samuel L. Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Matt Damon, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
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Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales is an audiobook benefiting children orphaned and impacted by HIV/AIDS in South Africa, featuring Gillian Anderson, Benjamin Bratt, LeVar Burton, Ricardo Chavira, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Hayes, Hugh Jackman, Samuel L. Jackson, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Debra Messing, Helen Mirren, Parminder Nagra, Sophie Okonedo, CCH Pounder, and Alan Rickman.
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Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
- Narrated by: Samuel L. Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Matt Damon, Alan Rickman
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 01-07-2009
- Language: English
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Things Fall Apart: CliffsNotes
- By: John Chua, Suzanne Pavlos M.Ed. C.S.W.
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
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The CliffsNotes study guide on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, critical commentaries, and expanded glossaries, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work.
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Things Fall Apart: CliffsNotes
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
- Series: CliffsNotes
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 22-03-2011
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk
- Original Classic Edition
- By: W.E.B. Du Bois
- Narrated by: Raymond Hearn
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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W.E.B. Du Bois, who drew from his own experiences as an African-American living in American society, explores the concept of "double-consciousness"—a term he uses to describe living as an African-American and having a "sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others." With Du Bois' examination of Black life in post-Civil War America, his explanation of the meaning of emancipation and its effect, and his views on the roles of the black leaders of his time, The Souls of Black Folk is one of the important early works in the field of sociology.
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The Souls of Black Folk
- Original Classic Edition
- Narrated by: Raymond Hearn
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 14-11-2023
- Language: English
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Un océano, dos mares, tres continentes
- By: Wilfried N'Sondé, Emiliano Becerril, Lucrecia Orensanz
- Narrated by: Pedro Ruiz
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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A comienzos del siglo xvii, el Rey Bakongo designa al primer embajador africano en el Vaticano, Nsaku Ne Vunda, con misión secreta. Su trayecto a Roma no será sencillo; de entrada, el barco que lo llevará tiene que pasar antes por el Nuevo Mundo cargando esclavos; hecho que inaugura el periplo fuera de serie de Nsaku Ne Vunda, un personaje fundamental pero olvidado por la Historia, que tuvo una odisea interminable por un océano, dos mares y tres continentes. La novela está narrada por el busto de mármol que de él existe en Roma.
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Un océano, dos mares, tres continentes
- Narrated by: Pedro Ruiz
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 19-09-2024
- Language: Spanish
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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave
- By: Willie Lynch
- Narrated by: Ronald Eastwood
- Length: 23 mins
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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave is a study of slave making. It describes the rationale and the results of Anglo Saxon's ideas and methods of insuring the master/slave relationship. The infamous Willie Lynch letter gives both African and Caucasian students and teachers some insight, concerning the brutal and inhumane psychology behind the African slave trade.
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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave
- Narrated by: Ronald Eastwood
- Length: 23 mins
- Release date: 10-12-2013
- Language: English
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The Wickedest
- By: Caleb Femi
- Narrated by: Caleb Femi
- Length: 55 mins
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This is a minute-by-minute depiction of a typical night at a legendary monthly house party known as 'The Wickedest'. Here, we meet a vivid cast of characters, young and old, all surfing a revelry steeped in camaraderie, community, desire and a spirit of jubilant defiance. A modern epic, The Wickedest explores the institution of shoobs or house parties and their vital role within working-class communities. The poems range from classical English sonnets to experimental forms and are immersively interwoven with text messages and ephemera.
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The Wickedest
- Narrated by: Caleb Femi
- Length: 55 mins
- Release date: 12-09-2024
- Language: English
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Langbourne's Loyalty
- The Langbourne Series
- By: Alan P Landau
- Narrated by: Adrian Galley
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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A new century, and a time of celebration, for family, marriages and children, and a necessity to expand the business. It is also a time for sadness, suffering and loss; Mother Africa does not change her rules for anyone. When all is against the Langbourne brothers, a higher loyalty must prevail.
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Langbourne's Loyalty
- The Langbourne Series
- Narrated by: Adrian Galley
- Series: The Langbourne Series, Book 5
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 11-10-2019
- Language: English
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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
- By: Warsan Shire
- Narrated by: Warsan Shire
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a girl who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own stumbling way toward womanhood. Drawing from her own life and the lives of loved ones, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds vivid, unique details in the experiences of refugees and immigrants, mothers and daughters, Black women and teenage girls.
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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
- Narrated by: Warsan Shire
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 10-03-2022
- Language: English
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Les Impatientes
- By: Djaïli Amadou Amal
- Narrated by: Léonie Simaga
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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Trois femmes, trois histoires, trois destins liés. Ce roman polyphonique retrace le destin de la jeune Ramla, arrachée à son amour pour être mariée à l'époux de Safira, tandis que Hindou, sa sœur, est contrainte d'épouser son cousin. Patience ! C'est le seul et unique conseil qui leur est donné par leur entourage, puisqu'il est impensable d'aller contre la volonté d'Allah. Comme le dit le proverbe peul : "Au bout de la patience, il y a le ciel." Mais le ciel peut devenir un enfer. Comment ces trois femmes impatientes parviendront-elles à se libérer ?
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Les Impatientes
- Narrated by: Léonie Simaga
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 08-04-2021
- Language: French
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Inventory of a Life Mislaid
- An Unreliable Memoir
- By: Marina Warner
- Narrated by: Marina Warner
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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Inventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warner’s beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her husband, an English colonel, is still away in the war in the East as she begins to learn how to be Mrs Esmond Warner, an Englishwoman.
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Inventory of a Life Mislaid
- An Unreliable Memoir
- Narrated by: Marina Warner
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 04-03-2021
- Language: English
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The Truth of You
- Poetry About Love, Life, Joy, and Sadness
- By: Iain S. Thomas
- Narrated by: Iain S. Thomas
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
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I want you to know that I see you. I want you to know that even if no one else does, even if you are a ghost in this bookshop, or just the static floating across the screen of your computer, wherever you’re reading this, I see you. I see you in the dark and I see you in the grey. I see you as a story, as words I have spoken or may yet speak. Maybe only in a memory or a dream. I see your hands and your arms and your body and your legs and your face and I see what you have been and what you will be.
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The Truth of You
- Poetry About Love, Life, Joy, and Sadness
- Narrated by: Iain S. Thomas
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Release date: 27-06-2023
- Language: English
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Kill the Devil
- A Love Story from Rwanda
- By: Tony Macaulay, Juvens Nsabimana
- Narrated by: Roger Jean Nsengiyumva
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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Shining a light on the remarkable, untold stories of reconciliation in Rwanda since the genocide in 1994, Kill the Devil is a love story between a survivor and a perpetrator of genocide in a lesson for our times and for all time.
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Kill the Devil
- A Love Story from Rwanda
- Narrated by: Roger Jean Nsengiyumva
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 18-09-2023
- Language: English
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The Half-God of Rainfall
- By: Inua Ellams
- Narrated by: Inua Ellams
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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There is something about the boy. When he is angry, clouds darken. When he cries, rivers burst their banks. And when he touches a basketball, deities want courtside seats. Half Nigerian mortal, half Grecian god: Demi is the Half-God of Rainfall. His mother, Modupe, looks on with a mixture of pride and worry. From close encounters, she knows that gods are just like men: the same fragile egos, the same subsequent fury, the same sense of entitlement to the bodies of mortals. The gods will one day tire of sports fans, their fickle allegiances and their prayers to Demi.
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The Half-God of Rainfall
- Narrated by: Inua Ellams
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 04-04-2019
- Language: English
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Cape Cod
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: Jim Killavey
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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In the early 1850s, Henry David Thoreau took many meditative walks along the coast. In Cape Cod he reflects on these beach-combing trips and the powerful forces of the sea.
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Cape Cod
- Narrated by: Jim Killavey
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 11-08-2004
- Language: English
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