Africa Memoir

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    • A Memoir of Africa
    • By: Peter Godwin
    • Narrated by: Peter Godwin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a stirring memoir of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country. But it is also a vivid portrait of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • On Blackness and Being
    • By: Christina Sharpe
    • Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake"....

    Regular price: $19.95

    • The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels
    • Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 913 ratings
    • It is difficult to find another soldier's story to equal Captain Darrell Watt's in terms of time spent on the field of battle and challenges faced....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
    • By: Peter Allison
    • Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,542 ratings
    • Whatever You Do, Don't Run is a hilarious collection of true tales from top ­safari guide Peter Allison....

    Regular price: $14.61

    • The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
    • By: Shane White
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 158 ratings
    • In Prince of Darkness, a groundbreaking and vivid account, eminent historian Shane White reveals the larger-than-life story of a man who defied every convention of his time....

    Regular price: $15.47

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Tina Knowles
    • Narrated by: Tina Knowles, Beyoncé, Solange, Kelly Rowland, Angie Beyincé
    • Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,750 ratings
    • Tina Knowles, the mother of iconic singer-songwriters Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Solange Knowles, and bonus daughter Kelly Rowland, chronicles a life like none other. Enlightening, entertaining, surprising, empowering, Matriarch is a testament to the world-changing power of Black motherhood.

    Regular price: $24.30

    • Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
    • By: Stephen Kinzer
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 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....

    Regular price: $18.05

    • By: Patrick N. Hunt
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 286 ratings
    • One of the greatest commanders of the ancient world brought vividly to life: Hannibal, the brilliant general who successfully crossed the Alps with his war elephants and brought Rome to its knees. Hannibal Barca of Carthage, born 247 BC, was one of the great generals of the ancient world....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • Fighter pilot memoirs & accounts of Cuban, SAAF and Angolan air combat in Southern African skies
    • By: Lionel Reid, Eduardo González
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-25
    • Language: English
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    • What was it like to fly a MiG or Mirage in combat over Angola? Most books on the Angolan Bush War, especially those in English, present the South ...

    Regular price: $12.00

    • The Life of Malcolm X
    • By: Les Payne, Tamara Payne
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 635 ratings
    • An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond
    • By: A.J. Balaam
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 448 ratings
    • Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s would have had a father, husband, brother, or son called up in the defense of the war-torn, landlocked little country. This is the story of Andrew Balaam, a member of the Rhodesian Light Infantry and the Selous Scouts for 12 years....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • By: Denise Dennis
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Black History for Beginners covers a rich but often ignored history and chronicles the Black struggle from capture and enslavement in Africa through the civil rights movement and up to today and the new and different kinds of struggles that Black people face today....

    Regular price: $13.75

    • By: Ramachandra Guha
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 23 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • Using a wealth of previously untapped documents, Ramachandra Guha takes us from Gandhi's birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, his two years as a student in London, and his two decades as a lawyer and community organizer in South Africa...

    Regular price: $25.79

    • A White Boy in Africa
    • By: Peter Godwin
    • Narrated by: Peter Godwin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • Rhodesia, 1964: a small boy witnesses the death of his neighbor, murdered by guerrillas - it is the beginning of the end of White rule in Africa. In Mukiwa, Peter Godwin, the witness to that murder, has written a vivid, moving account of growing up in a colony rapidly collapsing....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Life of Alain Locke
    • By: Jeffrey C. Stewart
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 45 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally....

    Regular price: $34.39

    • By: Beryl Markham
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 527 ratings
    • Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west, describes her childhood on a farm in Kenya, her apprenticeship as a horse trainer, and her later career....

    Regular price: $17.16

    • An American Family
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 852 ratings
    • This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
    • By: Cate Lineberry
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 252 ratings
    • Facing death rather than enslavement - a story of one man's triumphant choice and ultimate rise to national hero....

    Regular price: $14.61

    • By: Anne Moody
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 662 ratings
    • Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South....

    Regular price: $18.91

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