South African History

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    • By: Gail Nattrass
    • Narrated by: Sarah Jane Woodward
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • South Africa is popularly perceived as the most influential nation in Africa - a gateway to an entire continent for finance, trade and politics, and a crucial mediator in its neighbours’ affairs....

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    • By: Byron Farwell
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • The Great Boer War (1899-1902) - more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War - was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence....

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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
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    • 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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    • 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 214,992 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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    • The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
    • By: Martin Meredith
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 240 ratings
    • Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world....

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    • The History and Legacy of the European Subjugation of South Africa
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The Colonization of South Africa: The History and Legacy of the European Subjugation of South Africa looks at the controversial expeditions, fighting, and results...you will learn about the colonization of South Africa like never before....

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    • The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South
    • By: Albert J. Raboteau
    • Narrated by: Rodney Louis Tompkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. Using a variety of first and secondhand sources, Raboteau analyzes the transformation of the African religions into evangelical Christianity....

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    • By: Shirley Ann Grau
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,881 ratings
    • Abigail was the last keeper of the house, the last to know the Howland family's secrets....

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    • The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
    • By: Mark Mathabane
    • Narrated by: Mark Mathabane
    • Length: 18 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 409 ratings
    • Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa’s most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage....

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    • The History and Legacy of the Nation From European Colonization to the End of the Apartheid Era
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • South Africa: The History and Legacy of the Nation from European Colonization to the End of the Apartheid Era looks at the controversial history of the country, from the initial European explorers to the successful struggle to dismantle apartheid....

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    • Hell Divers Series, Book 1
    • By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith
    • Narrated by: R.C. Bray
    • Series: Hell Divers, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38,113 ratings
    • More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to Earth long ago....

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    • By: Martin Bossenbroek
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 218 ratings
    • In The Boer War, the author brings a completely new perspective to this chapter of South African history, critically examining the involvement of the Netherlands in the war....

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    • The SAS in Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers - with
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 319 ratings
    • In addition to Andre Scheepers' personal story, this book reveals more about some of the other men who were distinguished operators in SAS operations during the Rhodesian War....

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    • The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama
    • By: Nigel Cliff
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Historian Nigel Cliff delivers a sweeping reinterpretation of Vasco da Gama's pioneering voyages, revealing their significance as a decisive turning point in the struggle between Christianity and Islam - a series of events which forever altered the relationship between East and West....

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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 425 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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    • 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 131 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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    • By: James D. Anderson
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern Black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing Black schooling within a political, cultural, and economic context, he offers fresh insights into Black commitment to education....

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