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Planet Afropop October 8, 2024

Afropop Classic April 18, 2024

Hip Deep April 11, 2024
Part 1 of Afropop Worldwide's HIp Deep audio biography of Thomas Mapfumo focuses on his upbringing, musical education and the bands that lead up to the Blacks Unlimited. These are the war years, when Zimbabwe was fighting to throw off the burden of the racist Southern Rhodesian regime. This episode documents the birth of "chimurenga" music in the voices of those who made that history, many of whom have now joined the ancestors. Produced by Banning Eyre.

Afropop Classic March 21, 2024

Afropop Classic February 29, 2024

Afropop Classic December 14, 2023

Afropop Classic November 9, 2023

Planet Afropop October 17, 2023

Afropop Classic June 22, 2023

Afropop Classic March 30, 2023

Afropop Classic July 8, 2022

Afropop Classic April 15, 2021

Afropop Classic December 24, 2020

Afropop Classic October 10, 2020

Afropop Classic August 15, 2019

Afropop Classic July 4, 2019

Afropop Classic April 25, 2019

Closeup June 19, 2018

Hip Deep June 14, 2018

Afropop Classic February 22, 2018

Hip Deep December 14, 2017
In recognition of the end of Robert Mugabe's 37-year rule in Zimbabwe, we are rebroadcasting our program on the career of Thomas Mapfumo during the Mugabe years.

Closeup October 31, 2017

Afropop Classic December 15, 2016

Afropop Classic December 8, 2016

Afropop Classic May 12, 2016

Afropop Classic December 3, 2015