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Author: Maaza Mengiste
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Author Maaza Mengiste
Narrator Robin Miles
Duration 16h 11m
With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid. Her new employer, Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilise his strongest men before the Italians invade. Hirut and the other women long to do more than care for the wounded and bury the dead. When Emperor...
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Author: Jamaica Kincaid
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Author Jamaica Kincaid
Narrator Robin Miles
Duration 2h 15m
This collection is Jamaica Kincaid's earliest published writings: her inspired, lyrical short stories.These stories plunge the listener gently into another way of perceiving both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her narrative is, by turns, na‹vely whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partially remembered,...
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Author: Margot Lee Shetterly
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Author Margot Lee Shetterly
Narrator Robin Miles
Duration 10h 48m
Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as 'Human Computers', calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts, these 'colored computers' used pencil and paper to write the equa...
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Author: Nnedi Okorafor
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Author Nnedi Okorafor
Narrator Robin Miles
SeriesBinti, Book 1
Duration 2h 30m
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a co...
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