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January 26, 2021
Best of The Beat on Afropop: A Salute to the 89th Birthday of Reggae’s Preeminent Producer--Coxson Dodd
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September 15, 2020
Best of The Beat on Afropop: In Memory of Toots Hibbert
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June 3, 2020
Best of the Beat: Remembering Majek Fashek
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May 5, 2020
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Who Put the Beat in Afrobeat?: Tony Allen's 1984 Interview
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March 27, 2020
Best of The Beat on Afropop: 1989 Interview with Soukous Greats Aurlus Mabele and Diblo Dibala
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March 4, 2020
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Baaba Maal, Voice of the People
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February 6, 2020
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Celebrating Bob Marley Day
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January 9, 2020
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Cheikh Lô
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December 31, 2019
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Salute to Irving Burgie--The Best Songwriter You Never Heard Of
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December 26, 2019
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Steel Pulse—Roots ResurreXtion
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December 17, 2019
Farewell to Kehinde Lijadu
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October 11, 2019
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Fela Is Freed
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August 30, 2019
Best of The Beat on Afropop: The Landmark Reggae Film "The Harder They Come"
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June 6, 2019
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Boukman Eksperyans, Haiti’s Real Revolutionaries
Best of The Beat
May 23, 2019
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Maranhão--Reggae Time Warp in Brazil
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May 7, 2019
Best of The Beat on Afropop: In Remembrance of Mose "Fan Fan" Se Sengo
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April 11, 2019
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Dancehall Inna African Stylee
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February 27, 2019
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Bob Marley at Zimbabwe Independence Celebration, 1980
Best of The Beat
February 6, 2019
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Bob Marley--By the Book
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January 24, 2019
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Oliver Mtukudzi--Key to the Promised Land
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December 20, 2018
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Skanking With the Supai
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December 14, 2018
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Monty Alexander—Jazz Meets Jamaica
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November 15, 2018
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Saluting Stephen Marley
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November 6, 2018
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Remembering Docteur Nico
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July 11, 2018
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Antibalas--The Afrobeat Goes On
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July 6, 2018
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Barrington Levy, Broader Than Broadway
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July 5, 2018
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Leo Sarkisian and Mwamba Dechaud
"Music Time in Africa" producer recognizes Zairean guitar legend with "Prix de la VOA" and the presentation of a new guitar.
Best of The Beat
June 21, 2018
Best of The Beat on Afropop: On the Road With Thomas Mapfumo
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May 11, 2018
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Bob Marley, Natural Mystic—A Journey to Nine Miles
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April 17, 2018
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Ruben Blades' Album, Mundo
Best of The Beat on Afropop recalls the 2003 Grammy-award winning, genre-busting album, "Mundo," by Ruben Blades
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