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Kumukanda
- By: Kayo Chingonyi
- Narrated by: Kayo Chingonyi
- Length: 1 hr
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Translating as 'initiation', kumukanda is the name given to the rites a young boy from the Luvale tribe must pass through before he is considered a man. The poems of Kayo Chingonyi's remarkable debut explore this passage: between two worlds, ancestral and contemporary, between the living and the dead, between the gulf of who he is and how he is perceived. Underpinned by a love of music, language and literature, here is a powerful exploration of race, identity and masculinity, celebrating what it means to be British and not British, all at once.
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Kumukanda
- Narrated by: Kayo Chingonyi
- Length: 1 hr
- Release date: 28-04-22
- Language: English
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Growing Up African in Australia
- By: Maxine Beneba Clarke
- Narrated by: Ahmed Yussuf, Candy Bowers, Faustina Agolley, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Learning to kick a football in a suburban schoolyard. Finding your feet as a young black dancer. Discovering your grandfather’s poetry. Meeting Nelson Mandela at your local church. Facing racism from those who should protect you. Dreading a visit to the hairdresser. House-hopping across the suburbs. Being too black. Not being black enough. Singing to find your soul, and then losing yourself. Welcome to African Australia. Compiled by award-winning author Maxine Beneba Clarke, with curatorial assistance from writers Ahmed Yussuf and Magan Maga.
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Growing Up African in Australia
- Narrated by: Ahmed Yussuf, Candy Bowers, Faustina Agolley, Magan Magan, Manal Younus, Muma Doesa, Rebekha Robertson, Santilla Chingaipe, Tariro Mavondo, Thuso Lekwape
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 01-05-19
- Language: English
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The Kishi
- Tales from Esowon, Volume 1
- By: Antoine Bandele
- Narrated by: J. Keith Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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Amana hopes his dark secrets will never catch up with him. But when nearby villagers discover a mauled body near him, the residents assume the traveling monk is to blame. Amana suspects the grisly handiwork of a bloodthirsty, mythological creature. Determined to clear his name and catch the culprit, Amana follows the trail of bloody clues. When shadows from his own past tie in with the demonic attack, he's torn between his vow of pacifism and his duty to protect the defenseless.
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The Kishi
- Tales from Esowon, Volume 1
- Narrated by: J. Keith Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 14-09-18
- Language: English
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Houris
- By: Kamel Daoud
- Narrated by: Lola Naymark
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
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"Je suis la véritable trace, le plus solide des indices attestant de tout ce que nous avons vécu en dix ans en Algérie. Je cache l’histoire d’une guerre entière, inscrite sur ma peau depuis que je suis enfant." Aube est une jeune Algérienne qui doit se souvenir de la guerre d’indépendance, qu’elle n’a pas vécue, et oublier la guerre civile des années 1990, qu’elle a elle-même traversée. Sa tragédie est marquée sur son corps : une cicatrice au cou et des cordes vocales détruites. Muette, elle rêve de retrouver sa voix.
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Houris
- Narrated by: Lola Naymark
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 15-08-24
- Language: French
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The Whipping Man
- By: Matthew Lopez
- Narrated by: Aaron Jennings, Charlie Robinson, Mark J. Sullivan
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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Tensions run high as Caleb de Leon, a young Jewish Confederate soldier, celebrates Passover with his family's newly freed slaves in the de Leons' crumbling antebellum mansion. This gripping drama explores a little-known aspect of the Civil War, unearthing dark family secrets on the way to a shocking climax.
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The Whipping Man
- Narrated by: Aaron Jennings, Charlie Robinson, Mark J. Sullivan
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Release date: 08-10-15
- Language: English
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Refractive Africa
- Ballet of the Forgotten
- By: Will Alexander
- Narrated by: Will Alexander
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
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“The poet is endemic with life itself,” Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, he has exemplified this vital candescence with a transpersonal amplification worthy of the Cambrian explosion. “This being the ballet of the forgotten,” he writes as diasporic witness, “of refracted boundary points as venom.” The volume’s opening poem pays homage to the innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author Amos Tutuola; it ends with an encomium to the modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo.
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Refractive Africa
- Ballet of the Forgotten
- Narrated by: Will Alexander
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 27-06-23
- Language: English
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Reste avec moi
- By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Josette Chicheportiche - traducteur
- Narrated by: Mélissa Windal, Frédéric Lubansu
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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Avec pour toile de fond les bouleversements politiques du Nigeria des années 1980, le portrait inoubliable d'une femme qui fait le choix de la liberté... envers et contre tout. Yejide et Akin vivent une merveilleuse histoire d'amour. De leur coup de foudre à l'université d'Ifé, jusqu'à leur mariage, tout s'est enchaîné.
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Reste avec moi
- Narrated by: Mélissa Windal, Frédéric Lubansu
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 08-10-20
- Language: French
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V for Visa
- The Visa Series, Book 1
- By: Mona Ombogo
- Narrated by: Maria Huard
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
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Free-spirited innocence meets the dark and mysterious in this interracial romance. When Rain Handa's visa to join her fiancé in the UK is denied, she accidentally bumps into the visa officer, Darien Mitchell, who denied it. He is cocky and unapologetic. Her angry reaction to him is expected. What she doesn't see coming is the chemistry that surges between them. He is dangerous, and not just because falling in love with him would be stupid on a good day. He is dangerous because she is a good girl, trying to follow all the laws of life and he is the complete opposite.
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V for Visa
- The Visa Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Maria Huard
- Series: The Visa Series, Book 1
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 19-01-21
- Language: English
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Black Voices on Britain
- Macmillan Collector's Library
- By: Hakim Adi - editor
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch, Debra Michaels, Hakim Adi
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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Professor Hakim Adi draws on a variety of published works in Black Voices on Britain, all of which describe powerful experiences: James Gronniosaw and his family endure poverty, illness and unemployment; Mary Prince is driven out by her cruel owners and turns to London charities for help; Frederick Douglass, on a lecture tour around Britain, reveals how the Christian clergy built churches with slave-owners’ money and William Wells Brown gives his impressions of England as he travels around a country which welcomes him more readily than America.
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Black Voices on Britain
- Macmillan Collector's Library
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch, Debra Michaels, Hakim Adi
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 15-09-22
- Language: English
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A Blood Condition
- By: Kayo Chingonyi
- Narrated by: Kayo Chingonyi
- Length: 45 mins
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Kayo Chingonyi's remarkable second collection follows the course of a 'blood condition' as it finds its way to deeply personal grounds. From the banks of the Zambezi river to London and Leeds, these poems speak to how distance and time, nations and history can collapse within a body. With astonishing lyricism and musicality, this is a story of multiple inheritances—of grief and survival, renewal and the painful process of letting go—and a hymn to the people and places that run in our blood.
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A Blood Condition
- Narrated by: Kayo Chingonyi
- Length: 45 mins
- Release date: 28-04-22
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk
- Original Classic Edition
- By: W.E.B. Du Bois
- Narrated by: Raymond Hearn
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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W.E.B. Du Bois, who drew from his own experiences as an African-American living in American society, explores the concept of "double-consciousness"—a term he uses to describe living as an African-American and having a "sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others." With Du Bois' examination of Black life in post-Civil War America, his explanation of the meaning of emancipation and its effect, and his views on the roles of the black leaders of his time, The Souls of Black Folk is one of the important early works in the field of sociology.
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The Souls of Black Folk
- Original Classic Edition
- Narrated by: Raymond Hearn
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 14-11-23
- Language: English
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Gyinaye
- A Mother's Love
- By: Prince Kwame Wiafe-Kwagyane
- Narrated by: Steven Miller
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
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Gyinaye is a collection of poetry inspired by what the writer sees, feels, and hears from his many travels around the world of a searching mind - a true account of the different spheres and phases of natural beauty; historical and cultural diversity to soothe the listener's mind. It is a rich unveiling of the beauty of indigenous Africa’s natural resources and the power of nature on human life.
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Gyinaye
- A Mother's Love
- Narrated by: Steven Miller
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 21-04-21
- Language: English
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Beacon Hill: Series 4
- By: Jerry Robbins
- Narrated by: Jerry Robbins, Shana Dirik, The Colonial Radio Players
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
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Now is the winter of their discontent. It is Christmas, 1898, and Prescott House on Beacon Hill is ready to receive the visitors from England, which includes their son Andrew and his wife Jessica, Lord and Lady Burden, and their son, Trevor. Aurora Prescott leaves for New York, recovering from a recent tragedy, and Robert has a final confrontation with Miss Logan. Charles Prescott is now the President of a new Railroad company - however he soon discovers that while his financial empire is building at an extraordinary rate, his family is falling apart. This audio drama contains four episodes from the series by Colonial Radio Theatre. BEACON HILL contains adult subject matter and language. Parental discretion is advised.
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Beacon Hill: Series 4
- Narrated by: Jerry Robbins, Shana Dirik, The Colonial Radio Players
- Series: Beacon Hill, Book 4
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 19-12-13
- Language: English
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Legends of the Yoruba
- By: M.I. Ogumefu
- Narrated by: Dennis Logan
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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The legends and fairy stories in this book belong to the Yoruba country of Southem Nigeria. They relate the adventures of men and animals, and try to explain the mysteries of nature - why women have long hair, how the leopard got his spots, and so forth. Most of them include very old songs, but these cannot here be given in full.
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Legends of the Yoruba
- Narrated by: Dennis Logan
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Release date: 30-08-21
- Language: English
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Un océano, dos mares, tres continentes
- By: Wilfried N'Sondé, Emiliano Becerril, Lucrecia Orensanz
- Narrated by: Pedro Ruiz
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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A comienzos del siglo xvii, el Rey Bakongo designa al primer embajador africano en el Vaticano, Nsaku Ne Vunda, con misión secreta. Su trayecto a Roma no será sencillo; de entrada, el barco que lo llevará tiene que pasar antes por el Nuevo Mundo cargando esclavos; hecho que inaugura el periplo fuera de serie de Nsaku Ne Vunda, un personaje fundamental pero olvidado por la Historia, que tuvo una odisea interminable por un océano, dos mares y tres continentes. La novela está narrada por el busto de mármol que de él existe en Roma.
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Un océano, dos mares, tres continentes
- Narrated by: Pedro Ruiz
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 19-09-24
- Language: Spanish
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Return to the Enchanted Island
- A Novel
- By: Johary Ravaloson, Allison M. Charette - Translator
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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Named after the first man at the creation of the world in Malagasy mythology, Ietsy Razak was raised to perpetuate the glory of his namesake and expected to be as illuminated as his Great Ancestor. But in the chaos of modernity, his young life is marked only by restlessness, maddening insomnia, and an adolescent apathy.
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Return to the Enchanted Island
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 05-11-19
- Language: English
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Blossoms of the Savannah
- By: H. R. Ole Kulet
- Narrated by: John Sibi Okumu
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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Blossoms of the Savannah follows the lives of two young sisters on the verge of womanhood. Taiyo and Resian both become aware of the conflict between their personal dreams and their duty to the Nasila tradition and culture. H. R. Ole Kulet addresses the elusive concerns of female genital mutilation and early marriages among the Maa community of the Massai and captures the listener's imagination as he traces the girls' excruciatingly painful steps to victory.
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Blossoms of the Savannah
- Narrated by: John Sibi Okumu
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 24-12-18
- Language: English
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Riding Rebel
- The Essien Trilogy, Volume 3
- By: Kiru Taye
- Narrated by: Darren Homewood
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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Seen as the rebel Essien, Tony has always felt like an outsider. With a daredevil lifestyle, he's more at home in leathers than in a suit, and more likely to be seen gracing the red carpets at a movie premiere with a starlet draped on his arms than in a boardroom. Still, he's determined to prove himself to his family and build a successful movie business. Spotting Rita Dike at an event, he sees the potential star of his new movie and his next pleasure conquest.
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Riding Rebel
- The Essien Trilogy, Volume 3
- Narrated by: Darren Homewood
- Series: The Essien Trilogy, Book 3
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 29-03-16
- Language: English
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Bound to Fate
- Bound Series, Book 1
- By: Kiru Taye
- Narrated by: Dominic Carlos
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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Lara Johnson is coping with the emotional scars of losing both parents in a tragic incident and facing the challenges of starting a new school. Getting involved in a relationship isn't on her priority list. Certainly not this illicit desire for a man, who demands the best from her, yet leaves her breathless in his presence. All Ike Thomas wants to do is to keep out of trouble and get through the one year internship required for his degree program.
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Bound to Fate
- Bound Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Dominic Carlos
- Series: Bound (Taye), Book 1
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 24-03-17
- Language: English
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Kill the Devil
- A Love Story from Rwanda
- By: Tony Macaulay, Juvens Nsabimana
- Narrated by: Roger Jean Nsengiyumva
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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Shining a light on the remarkable, untold stories of reconciliation in Rwanda since the genocide in 1994, Kill the Devil is a love story between a survivor and a perpetrator of genocide in a lesson for our times and for all time.
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Kill the Devil
- A Love Story from Rwanda
- Narrated by: Roger Jean Nsengiyumva
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 18-09-23
- Language: English
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