"I am proud to say that I am part of Afropop…I congratulate all the members and donors and sponsors of Afropop."
-- King Sunny Ade
"Afropop is important for me because they bring a lot from the motherland.
You can discover the music, the people, the colors, the dancing,
everything that is important in my life, your life. Please help keep
Afropop alive. Jerry Jeff! (Thank you!)"
-- Baaba Maal
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"We thank Afropop for doing such a great job. In Africa there are still a lot of unnoticed talents. That’s why you have to keep going."
-- Thomas Mapfumo
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Support Afropop Worldwide
Celebrating 20 Years of Excellence in Connecting Music Fans to Africa and the World!
Afropop Worldwide is an internationally acclaimed weekly public radio program that, since 1988, has introduced American listeners to the musical cultures of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Hosted by Georges Collinet from Cameroon, the series is distributed by Public Radio International (PRI) to 113 stations in the U.S. and by XM satellite radio, as well as through on-demand streaming from our media-rich companion website, www.afropop.org.
Make a Contribution to Afropop Worldwide!
Every contribution to Afropop Worldwide helps to expand our ground-breaking work in public radio, multi-media technology and cultural education. With your contribution, we can…
- Produce more live concert recordings and profiles of music capitals around the world.
- Expand our website into a cutting-edge interactive, web 2.0 community of musicians and fans.
- Expose a younger audience to the Afropop sound.
Join with a global community of world class artists such as Angélique Kidjo, Youssou N'Dour and Gilberto Gil; emerging artists; music fans; journalists; concert promoters; DJ's; community leaders; students; academics and others!
Your tax-deductible contribution to World Music Productions (our 501(c)3 non-profit organization) supports the work of Afropop Worldwide.
You can either send a check to the address below, or use PayPal to contribute.
$20.00 -
Afropop Associate (students and seniors) |
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$35.00 -
Friend of Afropop |
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$75.00 -
Afropop Aficionado
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$150.00 -
Afropop Advocate |
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$250.00 -
Afropop Hero |
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$500.00 -
Afropop Champion |
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$1,000.00 -
or more Afropop Ambassadors Leadership Council |
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For any contribution of $20 or more...
—You will receive Afropop’s weekly eNewsletter with fresh interviews, photos, concert updates and more!
For any contribution of $75 or more...
—You will receive a free Afropop Hot Pick CD!
For any contribution of $100 or more...
—You will receive a free copy of Soukous in Central Park, signed by Kanda Bongo Man!
For any contribution of $1,000 more...
—You will become a major donor of Afropop Worldwide. Members of the Afropop Ambassadors Leadership Council receive name recognition on-air and in Afropop materials.
Checks can be made out to:
World Music Productions
688 Union St.
Brooklyn, NY 11215
USA
MORE ABOUT PAYPAL:
In case you are not already familiar with Paypal: Paypal lets you send and
receive money from your bank accounts and/or your credit cards, securely
and electronically. You need never give out your credit card and account
information to the recipient each time you send; only once to Paypal. Ten
million Americans use Paypal, for good reason. Signing up is easy and
free. A plus: if you sign up with our Afropop Paypal link and become a verified Paypal member, you will get a $5
referral fee from Paypal, and so will Afropop!
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Afropop community testimonials
"Afropop deserves an award for popularizing some of the finest music found in the world today. "
-- John Hudelson
"Afropop Worldwide is truly is one of the highlighs of my week... It is one of the few programs I try to stay home to hear, and it just gets better every year."
-- Mary Rowles
"Afropop is a work of genius in a country full of mediocre music radio offerings....
Offering back shows as high-quality internet streams is a fantastic plus."
-- Jack Freudenheim
"Georges Collinet is a wonder of the world, and he & Afropop delight our musical marrow and teach us how the world lives together... Here I am in middle-America Florida, and I'd hate to try to picture a world without Afropop."
-- princee
"The new web site is educational, informative, and prompted me to become a financial friend to Afropop. Classic Audio Streams on Afropop Radio fill my home and office with beautiful expressions of creativity from around the globe."
-- Adrienne W. Middlebrooks
"The user-friendly website offers me the shows I've missed and a sampler of what's happening, bringing the world a lot closer to me and the culture-starved backwater in which I live. "
-- Angela Ray
"I am a New York Puerto Rican conga player... I record just about every show because it's equivalent to taking a college course. So thank you for years of education."
-- Carlos Cornier
"George Collinet's Afropop Worldwide radio program and the Afropop.org website have been for me for years the first stop in finding out about the treasures in African-rooted world music."
-- Krista Fabian
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