Western African History

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    • A Captivating Guide to West African History, Starting from Ancient Civilizations Through the Medieval Period to the Present
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Beginning in prehistoric times, West Africa has always been an incredible region. Early nomadic tribes settled into some of the earliest communities on Earth and learned how to work with metal. This audiobook covers some of the most important events in West Africa’s history....

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    • A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
    • By: Michael Gomez
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 19 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • A groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global history....

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    • And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts
    • By: Joshua Hammer
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 450 ratings
    • This audiobook tells the incredible story of how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist and historian from the legendary city of Timbuktu, later became one of the world's greatest and most brazen smugglers....

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    • The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
    • By: Mark Pendergrast
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade....

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    • From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution
    • By: Geoffrey Plank
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In a sweeping account, Atlantic Wars explores how warfare shaped the experiences of the peoples living in the watershed of the Atlantic Ocean between the late Middle Ages and the Age of Revolution....

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    • Uncovering the Truth about Black History in the Bible
    • By: Keenan West
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • We know that 400 years ago, African-Americans were loaded onto boats as slaves. They were then dropped off in the Caribbean, North America, and ...

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    • A Hidden Heritage
    • By: William Loren Katz
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 320 ratings
    • The compelling account of how two heritages united in their struggle to gain freedom and equality in America. The first paths to freedom taken by runaway slaves led to Native American villages. There, black men and women found acceptance and friendship....

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    • Survivors of Boko Haram Tell Their Story
    • By: Wolfgang Bauer, Eric Frederick Trump - translator
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 04-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • One night in April 2014, members of the terrorist organization Boko Haram raided the town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria and abducted 276 girls from the local boarding school....

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    • Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity
    • By: Dr. Thomas C. Oden PhD
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • Africa has played a decisive role in the formation of Christian culture from its infancy. Some of the most decisive intellectual achievements of Christianity were explored and understood in Africa before they were in Europe....

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    • The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation
    • By: Fola Fagbule, Feyi Fawehinmi
    • Narrated by: Elnathan John
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation tracks the unlikely series of events and characters that turned a collection of disparate nations into a British colony in 1914....

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    • The History and Legacy of Germany’s Biggest African Colony
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Stephen Platt
    • Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • German South West Africa: The History and Legacy of Germany’s Biggest African Colony chronicles the politics and conflicts that marked Germany’s efforts to colonize German South West Africa. You will learn about German South West Africa like never before....

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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: 07-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • 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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    • The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
    • By: Ben Raines
    • Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 211 ratings
    • Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The ship was scuttled and burned on arrival to hide the wealthy perpetrators to escape prosecution....

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    • How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
    • By: David Hackett Fischer
    • Narrated by: Lamarr Gulley
    • Length: 35 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States....

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    • A Captivating Guide to One of the Largest Empires in West African History and the Legendary Mansa Musa (Western Africa)
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Have you ever wondered why the Mali Empire was so wealthy and well-known? Find your answer in our guide about the Mali Empire, and learn about its foundation and rise to fame under Mansa Musa....

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    • The History and Legacy of Portugal's Exploration and Colonization of the West African Coast
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Bill Hare
    • Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • This audiobook chronicles the early efforts by the Portuguese that helped initiate the Age of Exploration, and the ramifications the colonization had across the world....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Ancient Greece and Rome and How These Civilizations Influenced Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Richard L. Walton
    • Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • From about the ninth to fifth centuries BCE, the population of Greece grew unprecedentedly large, expanding from about 800,000 people to as many as 13 million....

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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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