Afropop Worldwide
Afropop worldwide is your source for music and stories from the African planet. We explore the the world through sound, from the ancient past to the cutting edge present, combining music, history, and culture. Distributed by PRI.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 510
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Islam and Music: From Prohibition to the Science of Ecstasy
Islam's complex relationship with arts and culture across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia presents special paradoxes and intrigue in the realm of music. Islam has been used both to nurture and curt…
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Thu 28 Aug 2025
The Music of Black Peru: Cultural Identity in the Black Pacific
The "Black Pacific" is a term coined by our guide, ethnomusicologist Heidi Carolyn Feldman. She describes the circumstance of African descendants displaced not only from their ancestral homes in Afri…
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Thu 21 Aug 2025
Madagascar Medley
On a return trip to Madagascar, we catch up with and hear new music from tsapiky maestro Damily, the “King of Salegy” Jaojoby, an exciting new duo starring Sammy of Tarika Sammy, Toko Telo and more. …
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Thu 14 Aug 2025
New Sounds From Nigeria
Nigeria is the undisputed powerhouse of African pop music. Call it Naija Pop, Afrobeats, Afropop or what have you. The likes of Burna Boy, Wizkid, Yemi Alade, Tiwa Savage, Olamide and Fireboy DML are…
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Thu 07 Aug 2025
The Story of Bembeya Jazz
Guinea's legendary dance band, Bembeya Jazz, are a pillar of modern West African history. Begun in 1961 in the flush of Guinea's independence and Sekou Toure's maverick presidency, the band played u…
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Thu 31 Jul 2025
Blues Reflections
In this episode, Afropop dives into a celebration of the blues--for some, the essence of the American experience and for others a link back into a lost history in Africa. For our program, we also wen…
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Thu 24 Jul 2025
Chimurenga Legacy - Thomas Mapfumo and Mary Anibal
Afropop’s Banning Eyre published his prize-winning biography of Thomas Mapfumo, Lion Songs, in 2015. In this episode, he visits the Lion of Zimbabwe at his home in Eugene, Oregon, to discuss new musi…
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Thu 17 Jul 2025
Nollywood - Nigeria's Mirror
"Nollywood - Nigeria's Mirror" takes us to Lagos, the third largest film industry in the world. Scholars Jonathan Haynes and Onookome Okome serve as guides as we negotiate the intricacies and eccentr…
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Thu 10 Jul 2025
Planet Afropop - The Other Sound of Kinshasa
The rumba and soukous of Congo-Zaire has infatuated listeners across the world for more than half a century. However, today in the neighborhoods of the capital, Kinshasa, there is a movement of music…
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Tue 08 Jul 2025
Roots Reinvented in Mali and Egypt
Grammy nominated ngoni virtuoso Bassekou Kouyate and his 8 piece band Ngoni Ba wowed the crowd at Lincoln Center in 2011. Ngoni Ba re-wired the ancient ngoni to create a dense, 21st century sound. We…
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Thu 03 Jul 2025
Off The Beaten Track in Burkina Faso, Malawi, and Beyond
This program ventures into corners of Africa we rarely hear from, guided by adventurous field recordists and crate diggers. The Zomba Prison Project is a set of recordings by inmates at a maximum sec…
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Thu 26 Jun 2025
Planet Afropop - Breaking into Afrobeats: Homegrown, Selfmade
Host FayFay sits with two emerging Nigerian artists whose paths are as bold as their sound: Looking for Avala and Inima. Avala opens up about her journey from sneaking into open mics in New York to n…
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Wed 25 Jun 2025
Cuts from the Crypt 4: Zona Libre
DJ Crew Zona Libre take a break from throwing genre-defying parties and producing their own live events and podcasts to team up with Afropop for another edition of Cuts from the Crypt. Frequent Afrop…
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Thu 19 Jun 2025
Barbados - From Spouge to Soca
We look into the rise and mysterious fall of the funky Bajan spouge beat which ruled the island in the ’70s, and discover a few underground musicians who are trying to keep it alive. Calypsonians Mig…
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Thu 12 Jun 2025
Planet Afropop - Madalitso! From Banjo Boys to Men and Acoustic Salif
The two-man acoustic juggernaut from Malawi, Madalitso Band, is on the move in 2025. With their fourth album, Ma Gitala (The Guitars), just released and a global tour, including Glastonbury, just sta…
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Tue 10 Jun 2025
Cooking with Georges Revisited
One of the glories of Afropop’s more than 30-year run has been joining our host Georges Collinet in the kitchen as he creates delicious concoctions, while grooving to his favorite tunes. This episode…
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Thu 05 Jun 2025
Afro-Dominicana: Music from the Other Dominican Republic
In the 1930s, infamous Dominican dictator Rafael Truillo ordered the burning of the country’s palos drums, hoping to erase the powerful vestiges of African culture in the Dominican Republic. Luckily …
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Tue 27 May 2025
Planet Afropop - Steel Pans and New Trends
Veteran Afropop producer Marika Partridge takes us to the island of St Lucia for a “beginners” steel pan (steel drum) work shop with maestro Andy Narell. It’s a complete sensory experience, with ambi…
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Tue 27 May 2025
Ten Tunes That Shook Kingston
The development of the popular Jamaican style is audible in this fun-packed, loosely chronological selection of tunes, moving from a US-style shuffle to ska to rock steady, toasting, dub, and Rastafa…
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Thu 22 May 2025
Afro-Lisbon and the Lusophone Atlantic
A small network of DJs in the suburbs of Lisbon, Portugal has been consistently producing some of the world’s best dance music. The children of African immigrants, these young musicians have combined…
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Thu 15 May 2025
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