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Black Orators Sound Collection



Selected sound recordings and audiobooks from black orators, sourced from shared resources online, converted to

MP3 format for accessibility. This section is there to give a brief audio overview on some of the most

important African speeches of our times, to document historical events, and to acknowledge

the place of African people in the history of recorded sound. There are

also 2 video documentaries accompanying this collection.


The content in this collection is not owned by this site, and intended for educational, or research purposes only.

All work published on this page is the intellectual property of its creators,

and requires permission to be reproduced.


Featuring Recordings by:

W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Dr Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, Hershel Walker,

Huey P Newton, Bobby Seale, Fred Hampton, Kwame Ture, Angela Davis, Assata Shakur,

Patrice Lumumba, Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, Kwame Nkrumah,

Thomas Sankara, Fela Kuti

and more.



Watch 'the Black Power Mixtape,' documentary 1967-1975

Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale (2011)

Documenting the Black Power movement in the United States


Directed by Goran Olsson

Distributed by Filmflex

Country: Sweden



Watch 'Concerning Violence,' anticolonial documentary

Narrated by Lauren Hill (2014)

Documenting the events of the African Liberation Struggle

An illustration of Psychoanalyst, Frantz Fanon's text;

'The Wretched of the Earth'


Directed by Goran Olsson

Distributed by Films Boutique

Country: Sweden



Watch 'The Murder of Fred Hampton' Chicago documentary

Fred Hampton, Rennie Davis, Bobby Rush (1971)

Documenting the life of civil rights activist Fred Hampton


Directed by Howard Alk

Distributed by Chicago Film Group

Country: United States



Other Relevant Texts:

'Black Skin White Masks by Frantz Fanon'

'Caribbean Discourse by Glissant Edouard'

'Papers in African Psychology by Na'im Akbar'

'The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois'



(MP3 128kbps Googledrive Access)

504 files






ACCESS TO THE BLACK ORATORS SOUND COLLECTION


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Photo: w.e.b. du bois (1911)



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