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The Most-Rated Africa Audiobooks

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, 75 unabridged Africa audiobooks in our catalog carry store ratings. These are the 25 with the most ratings.

The Africa shelf sits under History on the store.

The list

#TitleAuthorLength
1Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela: Booktrack EditionNelson Mandela28 hrs
2A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy SoldierIshmael Beah7.8 hrs
3King Leopold's GhostAdam Hochschild12.7 hrs
4Ancient Egypt: History in an HourAnthony Holmes1.4 hrs
5Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our LivesSiddharth Kara11.4 hrs
6The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes AfterClemantine Wamariya9 hrs
7Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of SurvivalDean King13 hrs
8Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a NationJohn Carlin9.2 hrs
9Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient CivilizationRichard Miles14.2 hrs
10There Was A Country: A Personal History of BiafraChinua Achebe9.4 hrs
11The Wretched of the EarthFrantz Fanon9.3 hrs
12African Origin of Civilization - The Myth or RealityCheikh Anta Diop9.9 hrs
13Strength in What RemainsTracy Kidder8.6 hrs
14White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of AfricaSusan Williams21.2 hrs
15Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years With a Midwife in MaliKris Holloway8.4 hrs
16We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories From RwandaPhilip Gourevitch10.4 hrs
17Cleopatra: The Queen who Challenged Rome and Conquered EternityAlberto Angela14.5 hrs
18The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African ChildhoodHelene Cooper9.5 hrs
19A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South AfricaDominique Lapierre8.7 hrs
20The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War AssassinationStuart A. Reid18.3 hrs
21The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in DarfurBrian Steidle8 hrs
22Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in BenghaziSamuel M. Katz9.6 hrs
23A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962Alistair Horne30 hrs
24Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in HistorySaul David14.9 hrs
25The Jew a Negro: Being a Study of the Jewish Ancestry from an Impartial StandpointArthur Talmage Abernethy2.6 hrs

Ordered by the number of store ratings, most first; the counts are used only for ordering and never shown. A rating count measures popularity, never quality. Computed from unabridged English-language audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026); children's titles are not ranked. Methodology.

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