African Art History

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    • Art History for Kids | Children's Art Books
    • By: Baby Professor
    • Narrated by: Frank Block
    • Length: 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-21
    • Language: English
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    • Ancient African art is history, culture and tradition fused into one. Studying art will provide a glimpse into the culture and belief systems of a civilization. It also tells a lot about tradition. Yes, there’s more to art than meets the eye....

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    • History of a Postcolonial Defeat
    • By: Bénédicte Savoy, Susanne Meyer-Abich - translator
    • Narrated by: Ronnie Archer-Morgan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. In Africa’s Struggle for Its Art, Bénédicte Savoy brings to light this largely unknown but deeply important history....

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    • The Story of In Living Color and the Black Comedy Revolution
    • By: David Peisner
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • Few television shows revolutionized comedy as profoundly or have had such an enormous impact as In Living Color. Now, Homey Don't Play That! reveals the complete, captivating story of how In Living Color overcame enormous odds to become a major, zeitgeist-seizing hit....

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    • 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 132 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....

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    • From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
    • By: Zeinab Badawi
    • Narrated by: Zeinab Badawi
    • Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • For too long, Africa's history has been neglected. Dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, its past has been fragmented, overlooked and denied its rightful place in our global story. Now, Zeinab Badawi guides us through Africa's spectacular history....

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    • The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
    • By: John Szwed
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra - a.k.a. Herman Blount - was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn....

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    • By: Ernest Hemingway
    • Narrated by: Josh Lucas
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 717 ratings
    • His second major venture into nonfiction (after Death in the Afternoon, 1932), Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Daniel R. Day
    • Narrated by: Omari Hardwick, Daniel R. Day
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,345 ratings
    • With his now-legendary store on 125th Street in Harlem, Dapper Dan pioneered high-end streetwear in the 1980s, remixing classic luxury-brand logos into his own innovative, glamorous designs. But before he reinvented haute couture, he was a hungry boy with holes in his shoes....

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    • How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
    • By: Larry Tye
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie.

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: John Parker, Richard Rathbone
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • This VSI, the first concise work of its kind, will prove essential for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history....

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    • The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South
    • By: Bill Steigerwald, Juan Williams - foreword
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • In 1948 most White people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for the 10 million African Americans living in the South....

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    • An African Childhood
    • By: Alexandra Fuller
    • Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,108 ratings
    • Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....

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    • Artist, Poet, Slave
    • By: Laban Carrik Hill
    • Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
    • Length: 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Laban Carrick Hill, the best-selling author of the National Book Award Finalist Harlem Stomp, here delivers an inspiring and lyrical story of a gifted craftsman who lived in South Carolina two centuries ago....

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    • A Personal History of Biafra
    • By: Chinua Achebe
    • Narrated by: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes a long-awaited memoir about coming of age with a fragile new nation, then watching it torn asunder in a tragic civil war....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 07-08-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Inside the Hotel Rwanda offers an honest and unflinching first-hand account of the reality of life inside the hotel, exposing the man who exploited refugees....

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    • The Story of Black Hollywood
    • By: Donald Bogle
    • Narrated by: Flynn Earl Jones
    • Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Donald Bogle tells the story of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning 60 years, this deliciously entertaining history uncovers the audacious manner in which many Blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them....

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    • Notes in Praise of Black Performance
    • By: Hanif Abdurraqib
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 235 ratings
    • MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow and best-selling author Hanif Abdurraqib has written a profound and lasting reflection on how Black performance is inextricably woven into the fabric of American culture....

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    • The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
    • By: Ida B. Wells, Alfreda M. Duster - editor
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • This engaging memoir, originally published 1970, relates Ida B. Wells’ private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Helene Cooper
    • Narrated by: Helene Cooper
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 304 ratings
    • At once a deeply personal memoir and an examination of a violent and stratified country, The House at Sugar Beach tells of tragedy, forgiveness, and transcendence....

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