William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in 1868, 3 years after the end of the Civil War. He worked his whole life to bring an end to segregation. Du Bois died in 1963, one year before the March on Washington. This book covers vast amounts of African history including the history of Ethiopia and Egypt, the Niger and the advent of Islam, the Guinea and the Congo, Africans in the West Indies and Latin America and Africans in the United States. Original Spoken Word written and performed by Kristy Thomas with Foreword by S. Powell. This audiobook was published by Nubian Audio, an imprint of The Audio Flow, LLC. Original text used for this audiobook production approved and provided by Global Grey, edited by Jocqueline M. Protho.