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 89 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....

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    • 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 1,533 ratings
    • Whatever You Do, Don't Run is a hilarious collection of true tales from top ­safari guide Peter Allison....

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    • By: Isak Dinesen
    • Narrated by: Julie Harris
    • Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,378 ratings
    • Danish countess Karen Blixon, known as Isak Dineson, ran a coffee plantation in Kenya in the years when Africa remained a romantic and formidable continent....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Zelda la Grange
    • Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Zelda la Grange
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • This book tells the extraordinary story of how a young woman’s life, beliefs, prejudices - everything she once believed - were utterly transformed by the man she had been taught was the enemy....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Tina Knowles
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 04-22-25
    • Language: English
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    • 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.

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    • 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 515 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....

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    • 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 869 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....

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    • The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
    • By: Patricia Williams, Jeannine Amber
    • Narrated by: Patricia Williams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7,321 ratings
    • Rabbit is an unflinching memoir of cinematic scope and unexpected humor that offers a rare glimpse into the harrowing reality of life on America's margins....

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    • 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 622 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....

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    • By: Beryl Markham
    • Narrated by: Julie Harris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,354 ratings
    • West with the Night is the story of a remarkable woman molded and shaped by many things....

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    • The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
    • By: Farah Jasmine Griffin
    • Narrated by: Farah Jasmine Griffin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • Farah Jasmine Griffin’s father died when she was nine, bequeathing her an unparalleled inheritance in closets full of remarkable books and other records of Black genius. In Read Until You Understand - a line from a note he wrote to her - she shares a lifetime of discoveries....

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    • A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
    • By: Jeff Hobbs
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,909 ratings
    • A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets....

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    • 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 429 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....

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    • Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero
    • By: Kate Clifford Larson
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 265 ratings
    • Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history - a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines....

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    • A Memoir Miraculous Near Death of a Girl, Abducted, Shot During War, and Sung Back to Life by an African Woman
    • By: Robin Aisha Landsong
    • Narrated by: Robin Aisha Landsong
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This beautifully honest account of survival and restoration carries the potency to revitalize each of us. This book holds inspiration for worldwide compassionate action and celebrates what Loving Bravely truly means.

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    • Stories from a South African Childhood
    • By: Trevor Noah
    • Narrated by: Trevor Noah
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 215,166 ratings
    • Comedian Trevor Noah offers listeners a glimpse into his childhood during apartheid in South Africa in this award-winning memoir.

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    • 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 34 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"....

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