African Cities

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    • By: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-2024
    • Language: English
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    • When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York....

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    • By: James Anthony Tyler
    • Narrated by: Ronald Emile, Jayme Lawson, Kareem Lucas, Portia
    • Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
    • Release date: 18-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • NYC, 2013. During late night trips on the A train, we get snapshots of Tyrone's life - his close relationship with his mother, his attempts to flirt with a coworker, Niesha, his job as a bouncer, and his dreams of going back to school....

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    • By: Tlotlo Tsamaase
    • Narrated by: Christel Mutombo
    • Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 23-01-2024
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor her every move, Nelah’s perfect life is precarious....

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    • By: Catherine Ryan Hyde
    • Narrated by: Michael Crouch
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 21-05-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Raymond Jaffe feels like he doesn’t belong. Not with his mother’s new family. Not as a weekend guest with his father and his father’s wife. Not at school, where he’s an outcast....

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    • By: Mateo Askaripour
    • Narrated by: Zeno Robinson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 18-03-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Black Buck is a crackling, satirical debut novel about a young man given a shot at stardom as the lone Black salesman at a mysterious, cult-like and wildly successful start-up where nothing is as it seems....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Joseph Earl Thomas
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 18-06-2024
    • Language: English
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    • From the "extraordinary [and] insightful" author of Sink (New York Times Book Review) comes a stirring, unsparing novel about Black life in Philadelphia and the struggle to build intimate connections through the eyes of a struggling ex-Army grad student.

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    • A Novel
    • By: Alaya Dawn Johnson
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah, Shayna Small
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-2020
    • Language: English
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    • The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The Underground Railroad in Alaya Dawn Johnson's timely and unsettling novel, set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New York City at the dawn of World War II....

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    • Fugitive Life in an American City
    • By: Alice Goffman
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A riveting, groundbreaking account of how the war on crime has torn apart inner-city communities....

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    • A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
    • By: Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 25 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital....

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    • Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
    • By: Jill Lepore
    • Narrated by: Beth McDonald
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 22-09-2005
    • Language: English
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    • A gripping tale and groundbreaking investigation of a mysterious, and largely forgotten, eighteenth-century slave plot to destroy New York City....

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    • Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
    • By: Elijah Anderson
    • Narrated by: Vince Bailey
    • Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 13-01-2014
    • Language: English
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    • Inner-city Black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence; in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street....

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    • By: Renee Daniel Flagler
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 01-04-2025
    • Language: English
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    • A small-town woman’s journey of self-discovery takes an unexpected detour when she inherits a Brooklyn brownstone—complete with one hot next-door neighbor—in this sexy, emotional contemporary romance.

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    • Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
    • By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 24-11-2020
    • Language: English
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    • City of Inmates explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator. Historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and Black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration....

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    • African Americans and the Creation of Atlantic City
    • By: Nelson Johnson
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-2011
    • Language: English
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    • In The Northside, Johnson brings the untold story of Atlantic City's black community vividly to life....

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    • The History of the West African Emperor and Medieval Africa's Most Fabled City
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
    • Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
    • Release date: 23-07-2019
    • Language: English
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    • Recent research has revealed that the richest person of all time lived in the 14th century in West Africa and went by many names, including Kankan Musa Keita, Emir of Melle, Lord of the Mines of Wangara, Conqueror of Ghanata, and the Lion of Mali II....

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    • By: Donald Charles
    • Narrated by: Tamika
    • Series: Crescent City Connections, Book 1
    • Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
    • Release date: 18-05-2023
    • Language: English
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    • A man of the night and a man of the city, some would even say a renaissance man. Ron Etienne maneuvers through the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the same way as many other single men in their early 30s....

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    • Dee's Story
    • By: Rashima Wilson
    • Narrated by: Noelle Marie
    • Series: A Ratchet City Tale, Book 2
    • Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Dee has always been a girl who knows how to hustle. From the time she could walk, she knew the value of a dollar--and how to work for it. You have to, growing up on the streets of Ratchet City....

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