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My Fourth Time, We Drowned
- Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
- By: Sally Hayden
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall63
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Performance55
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WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE ‘The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read’ SALLY ROONEY The Western world has turned its back on refugees, fuelling one of the most devastating human rights...
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incredible
- By Michael on 31-01-23
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My Fourth Time, We Drowned
- Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 31-03-22
- Language: English
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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures
- By: J. H. Patterson
- Narrated by: Christopher Romance
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance17
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In 1898, the British were building a railway line between Mombasa in Kenya and Uganda. At the Tsavo River in Kenya where a bridge needed to be built, the project was suddenly interrupted by two man-eating lions that targeted the camps of the workers. Over a period of nine months, the lions killed scores of people. These lions were deliberately hunting people, preferring humans over any other prey, and they seemed to have supernatural abilities in evading all attempts to stop them. Colonel J.H. Patterson, the chief engineer in charge of the project, finally managed to eliminate them.
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narrator not so good. Typical old colonial story
- By Amazon Customer on 26-10-20
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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures
- Narrated by: Christopher Romance
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 10-03-20
- Language: English
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A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone to the Zambesi and its Tributaries
- By: Dr. Stanley Livingstone
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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Livingstone's first book revolutionized the way European readers saw Africa and made him a hero in England. He returned again to the Zambesi with his brother Charles and others, this time with more equipment and funds. Again he faced hippopotami, crocodiles, impossible terrain, and disease, but his greatest enemies on this trip prove to be human. The British eventually lost faith in the expedition, but Livingstone proved in the end to have had tremendous foresight.
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A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone to the Zambesi and its Tributaries
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 26-07-10
- Language: English
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Dictatorland
- The Men Who Stole Africa
- By: Paul Kenyon
- Narrated by: Hamilton McLeod
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance26
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Story26
Bloomsbury presents Dictatorland by Paul Kenyon, read by Hamilton McLeod. A Financial Times Book of the Year 'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express 'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times 'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish Times The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop...
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Weird pronunciations
- By J. Hunter on 26-03-26
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Dictatorland
- The Men Who Stole Africa
- Narrated by: Hamilton McLeod
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 06-07-23
- Language: English
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White Mischief
- The Murder of Lord Erroll
- By: James Fox
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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In 1941, with London burning in the Blitz, a group of hedonistic English nobles partied shamelessly in Kenya. Far removed from falling bombs, the wealthy elites of "Happy Valley" indulged in morphine, alcohol, and unrestricted sex, often with their friends' spouses. But the party turned sinister in the early hours of a January morning for Josslyn Hay, Lord Erroll, who had been enjoying the favors of the beautiful young wife of a middle-aged neighbor. Hay was found dead, a bullet in his brain.
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Interesting
- By Bernie on 25-12-24
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White Mischief
- The Murder of Lord Erroll
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 05-12-23
- Language: English
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The Second Emancipation
- Nkruman, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide
- By: Howard W. French
- Narrated by: Howard W. French, David Sadzin
- Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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The Second Emancipation, the second work in a trilogy from bestselling author Howard W. French about Africa's pivotal role in shaping world history, underscores Adam Hochschild's contention that French is a "modern-day Copernicus." The title―referring to a brief period beginning in 1957 when dozens of African colonies gained their freedom―positions this liberation at the center of a "movement of global Blackness," with one charismatic leader, Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), at its head.
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Too long and too much Nkumrah hagiography
- By J. Deane on 02-01-26
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The Second Emancipation
- Nkruman, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide
- Narrated by: Howard W. French, David Sadzin
- Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 09-09-25
- Language: English
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Brutal Valour: The Tragedy of Isandlwana
- The Anglo-Zulu War, Book 1
- By: James Mace
- Narrated by: Jonathan Waters
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall106
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Performance93
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Story93
It is December 1878, and war looms on the horizon in South Africa. British high commissioner Sir Henry Bartle-Frere seeks to dismantle the powerful neighboring kingdom of the Zulus and uses an incursion along the disputed border as his justification for war. He issues an impossible ultimatum to the Zulu king, Cetshwayo, demanding he disband his armies and pay massive reparations. With a heavy heart, the king prepares his nation for war against their former allies.
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Well worth reading
- By Amazon Customer on 15-02-18
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Brutal Valour: The Tragedy of Isandlwana
- The Anglo-Zulu War, Book 1
- Narrated by: Jonathan Waters
- Series: The Anglo-Zulu War, Book 1
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 06-03-17
- Language: English
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The Crown’s Silence
- The Hidden History of Slavery and the British Monarchy
- By: Brooke Newman
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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A ground-breaking and essential work of history – the first of its kind to closely examine the British Royal Family’s connection with the transatlantic slave trade The Crown's Silence is the untold story of the British royal family’s relationship to slavery from the reign of Elizabeth I to...
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The Crown’s Silence
- The Hidden History of Slavery and the British Monarchy
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 29-01-26
- Language: English
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South Africa: History in an Hour
- By: Anthony Holmes
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall75
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Performance63
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Story61
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. With the passing of Nelson Mandela, ‘the father of the nation’, comes the end of an era, and the moment to look back on his remarkable saving, and remaking, of South Africa. After years of oppression and racial inequality, concentrated...
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Good summary pity about pronunciation
- By Sean on 02-04-19
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South Africa: History in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
- Release date: 02-08-12
- Language: English
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Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War
- By: Deneys Reitz
- Narrated by: John Maytham
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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Commando is more than a historical document. With prose that captures both the brutality and the beauty of war, Reitz weaves a narrative that resonates with authenticity, transcending time. As relevant today as when it was first penned, Commando has become a South African classic and stands as a testament to the indomitable human spirit in the face of adversity.
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A must read
- By OrientalPoppy on 02-05-26
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Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War
- Narrated by: John Maytham
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 24-07-24
- Language: English
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Two Weeks in November
- The astonishing untold story of the operation that toppled Mugabe
- By: Douglas Rogers
- Narrated by: Patrick Doherty
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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Two Weeks in Novemberis the thrilling, surreal, unbelievable and often very funny true story of four would-be enemies - a high ranking politician, an exiled human rights lawyer, a dangerous spy and a low-key white businessman turned political fixer - who team up to help unseat one of Africa's...
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How the Crocodile replaced the Monster Mugabe.
- By Stephen Towers on 09-07-25
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Two Weeks in November
- The astonishing untold story of the operation that toppled Mugabe
- Narrated by: Patrick Doherty
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 13-07-23
- Language: English
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Watch My Tracer
- By: Keith Chisnall
- Narrated by: Keith Chisnall
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance16
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One man's untold story of Special Forces, including clandestine operations during the Rhodesian war. A third-generation Rhodesian tells the story of his upbringing on a farm and his days learning to track and survive in the bush. There are historical facts with covert and overt operations which have never been made public. It is a story of trial, battle, friendships, and extraordinary life experiences during the bloody Rhodesian war.
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Very relaxed tone. Quite different from the usual gung-ho military stories.
- By Copperfish on 23-04-26
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Watch My Tracer
- Narrated by: Keith Chisnall
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 23-06-21
- Language: English
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Cave of Bones
- By: Lee Berger, John Hawks
- Narrated by: Lee Berger
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance15
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In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa—spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens some 250,000 years ago. Lead researcher Berger had never made his way into the dark, cramped, dangerous underground spaces where many of the naledi fossils had been found. Now he was ready to do so. Once inside the cave, Berger made shocking new discoveries that expand our understanding of this early hominid.
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Read by the author
- By J. Rutter on 26-12-24
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Cave of Bones
- Narrated by: Lee Berger
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 08-08-23
- Language: English
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It's a Continent
- Unravelling Africa's History One Country at a Time
- By: Astrid Madimba, Chinny Ukata
- Narrated by: Astrid Madimba, Chinny Ukata
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance22
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Why is Africa still perceived as a country when there are around 2,000 languages spoken on the continent alone? It's a Continent aims to counter the misconception that Africa is a country by breaking down this vast, beautiful and complex continent into regions and countries. Each of the 54 African countries has a unique history and culture and this audiobook highlights the key historical moments that have shaped each nation and contributed to its global position, as well as within the African continent.
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knowledge
- By Kimberley Pearce on 04-02-24
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It's a Continent
- Unravelling Africa's History One Country at a Time
- Narrated by: Astrid Madimba, Chinny Ukata
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 07-07-22
- Language: English
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Cobalt Red
- How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
- By: Siddharth Kara
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall164
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Performance149
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This program includes an author's note read by the author. An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all. Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the...
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Holds a mirror up to us all.
- By Anonymous on 13-02-23
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Cobalt Red
- How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 31-01-23
- Language: English
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A Training School for Elephants
- The powerful, Sunday Times bestselling story of Africa, from the author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia
- By: Sophy Roberts
- Narrated by: Sophy Roberts
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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Brought to you by Penguin From the acclaimed author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia, comes a new journey, following four 19th century elephants marched from the East African coast towards Congo, to tell a heartbreaking story of folly and colonial greed. Featuring immersive field recordings...
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Fascinating and transporting - travel / historical writing at its best
- By Anonymous on 11-05-25
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A Training School for Elephants
- The powerful, Sunday Times bestselling story of Africa, from the author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia
- Narrated by: Sophy Roberts
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 20-02-25
- Language: English
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Augustine the African
- By: Catherine Conybeare
- Narrated by: Catherine Conybeare
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Augustine of Hippo (354-430), also known as Saint Augustine, was one of the most influential theologians in history. His writings, including the autobiographical Confessions and The City of God, helped shape the foundations of Christianity and Western philosophy. But for many centuries, Augustine's North African birth and Berber heritage have been simply dismissed. Catherine Conybeare, a world-renowned Augustine scholar, here puts the "African" back in Augustine's story.
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An unexpected delight
- By Amazon Customer on 03-12-25
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Augustine the African
- Narrated by: Catherine Conybeare
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 14-10-25
- Language: English
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Carthage Must Be Destroyed
- The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
- By: Richard Miles
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall91
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Performance74
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An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire. The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. In an epic series of land and sea battles, both sides came close to victory before the Carthaginians finally succumbed and their capital city, history, and culture were almost utterly erased.
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poor narrator
- By Jon Simcox on 22-12-12
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Carthage Must Be Destroyed
- The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 18-08-11
- Language: English
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A Dying Colonialism
- By: Frantz Fanon
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time. He has had a profound impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world. A Dying Colonialism is Fanon’s incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as “primitive,” in order to destroy those oppressors.
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A Dying Colonialism
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 23-05-23
- Language: English
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