Planet Afropop This new podcast from Afropop Worldwide hosted by Georges Collinet, Banning Eyre and Mukwae Wabei Siyolwe. While our radio programs provide a comprehensive history of African and African Diaspora music, Planet Afropop focuses on the present, the fast-moving, ever-changing, always thrilling developments for Afro music in the 21st century. Afropop Worldwide speaks to history; Planet Afropop speaks to the present!
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 November 9, 2023
Planet Afropop October 17, 2023
Afropop Classic April 25, 2019
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.
Afropop Classic May 12, 2016
Afropop Classic May 28, 2015
Afropop Classic June 20, 2012
