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    • The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
    • By: Nelson Mandela
    • Narrated by: Michael Boatman
    • Length: 27 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,882 ratings
    • Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time....

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    • The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
    • By: Yepoka Yeebo
    • Narrated by: Jude Owusu
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Yepoka Yeebo presents the astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of the 20th century’s longest-running and most spectacular frauds....

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    • The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
    • By: Stuart A. Reid
    • Narrated by: Michael Boatman
    • Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • It was supposed to be a moment of great optimism, a cause for jubilation. The Congo was at last being set free from Belgium—one of seventeen countries to gain independence in 1960 from ruling European powers....

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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 854 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 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 207 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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    • A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
    • By: Adam Hochschild
    • Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,933 ratings
    • In the late 1890s, Edmund Dene Morel, a young British shipping company agent, noticed something strange about the cargoes of his company's ships....

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    • Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
    • By: Candice Millard
    • Narrated by: Paul Michael
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,504 ratings
    • For millennia the location of the Nile River’s headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the 19th century, there was a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. At the same time, European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe....

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    • How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
    • By: Siddharth Kara
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 485 ratings
    • An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.

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    • A Cold Case Investigation
    • By: Sarah Adams, Dave Benton
    • Narrated by: Brian Sears
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Starting on September 11th, 2012, al-Qa'ida carried out a series of terrorist attacks on the U.S. Consulate and CIA Annex in Benghazi, Libya, killing four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens....

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    • By: W. E. B. Du Bois, David Levering Lewis
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 37 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 353 ratings
    • This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society. Hailed at the time....

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    • By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 542 ratings
    • Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....

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    • The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
    • By: Martin Dugard
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,313 ratings
    • "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"....

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    • Rome’s Greatest Enemy
    • By: Philip Freeman
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Hannibal is the biography of a man who, against all odds, dared to change the course of history....

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    • A True Story of Survival
    • By: Dean King
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,401 ratings
    • Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of 12 American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815....

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    • The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
    • By: Richard Miles
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 665 ratings
    • An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.....

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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 418 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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    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of this mythology is a rich history of pirate societies....

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    • The Forgotten War That Changed American History
    • By: Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger
    • Narrated by: Brian Kilmeade
    • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,856 ratings
    • This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up....

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    • General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa, 1914-1918
    • By: Robert Gaudi
    • Narrated by: Paul Hodgson
    • Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,007 ratings
    • African Kaiser is the almost-forgotten true account of Wiemar Germany's military escapades on the dark continent. A story of 1,000-mile marches through the harshest landscapes....

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