Episode 77 of Africa Past and Present (podcast ) is now available

Songs & Secrets: Barry Gilder, folk singer and ex-ANC intelligence operative, author of Songs & Secrets: South Africa from Liberation to Governance (Columbia UP/Hurst/Jacana) reflects on freedom songs, exile, armed struggle, performs his "Matola Song," about a friend killed by an apartheid death squad, and ends with thoughts on democratic governance and the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection.

Episode 77 of Africa Past and Present -- the podcast about African history, culture, and politics -- is now available at: http://afripod.aodl.org/2013/11/afripod-77/