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.

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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.

This section also includes introductory documentaries and books

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

A Caribbean Discourse by Glissant Edouard

Black Skin White Masks by Frantz O. Fanon

Papers in African Psychology: - Na'im Akbar

World & Africa, Color & Democracy-Du Bois

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

Silence Would be Treason: Ken-Saro Wiwa

Nelson Mandela's - Long Walk to Freedom

Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire

Return to a Native Land by Aime Cesaire

The Isis Papers: - Francis Cress Welsing

(MP3 128kbps Googledrive Access)

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