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Planet Afropop - Golden Elephants and Ibibio Gospel
In this edition of Planet Afropop, our newest producer Stella Hartman reports on the UK/Nigerian group Ibibio Sound Machine’s venture into gospel mus…
11 months, 1 week ago
The Mighty Amazon
The Amazon River basin has long been a mystery to Brazil. Located far from the centers of business and power in the nation's southeast, the jungle pr…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Planet Afropop - The New Black Vanguard of Classical Music
In this episode, our new producer, Lauren Williams, revisits an old genre through a new lens. Classical music, a historically exclusionary space, is …
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Black History Month: The African Roots of Rock n Roll
In this program you will the hear the African music roots of famed American blues and rock 'n' roll artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Bo Diddley, Buddy H…
1 year ago
Botswana Dumelang
Botswana is a large, landlocked country in Southern Africa, a vast stretch of desert and savannah between South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia with a p…
1 year ago
Cairo: Hollywood of the Middle East
By the mid 20th century, Cairo had become the unrivaled center for music and film production in the Middle East. Producers, writers, composers, actor…
1 year ago
Planet Afropop - Johannesburg Meets Detroit: Soweto Gospel Choir's History of House
Our reporter from Texas, Akshaj Turebylu, triangulates the influences responsible for the irresistible, intercontinental, genre-bending, collaborativ…
1 year ago
A Tale of Two Rebellions - Zanj, Fatamid
Our Hip Deep edition “A Tale of Two Rebellions" recounts the stories of two remarkable military campaigns in early Islamic history. Both uprisings ta…
1 year ago
The Zulu Factor
Beginning in 1815, under Shaka Zulu, the Zulus began a campaign of conquest that would subsume so many other groups that today, the Zulu are South Af…
1 year ago
Planet Afropop - 2024 Wrapup
Georges, Mukwae and Banning share highlights from 2024, including new voices from Malawi and Namibia, highlights from the Nuits D’Afrique festival in…
1 year ago