Afropop Worldwide | Audio Programs

Afropop Classic December 29, 2022

Over the past 60 years, a number of musicians from Africa and its diaspora have come to base themselves, or have been born, in Sweden.

Afropop Classic December 22, 2022

New Africa, 2022

Afropop asks artists what new things they discovered in music in 2022.

Afropop Classic December 16, 2022

Ghana: Celebration Sounds

In hard times and boom times, people in Ghana know how to party. In this program, we hear the regional pop and neotraditional music that animates festivals, funerals and community celebrations across the country.

Afropop Classic November 3, 2022

Talking with Mopao (The Leader) Koffi Olomide Exclusive Interview with Sean Barlow

Afropop Classic October 6, 2022

Reissued - African Vinyl In The 21st Century

This program explores some of the complex and shifting dynamics of neocolonialism, cultural ownership and audience in the African vinyl market.

Afropop Classic September 29, 2022

Never Grow Old - A Salute to Toots Hibbert Playlist

Never Grow Old Playlist: A Salute To Toots And The Maytals

Afropop Classic September 29, 2022

Never Grow Old - A Salute to Toots and the Maytals

Toots Hibbert was a titan of Jamaican popular music. With his harmony group the Maytals he indelibly changed the island’s music scene in the early 1960s by infusing ska with gospel and went on to captivate overseas audiences by blending blues and funk with reggae, becoming one of Jamaica’s best-known performers.

Afropop Classic September 22, 2022

South African Roots in the 21st Century

Afropop Classic September 1, 2022

The Gqom Generation of Durban, South Africa

Latests music craze stimulated by taxis to hit South African called Gqom. For the past seven years, a technologically savvy teen generation in Durban, KwaZulu Natal.

Afropop Classic August 25, 2022

The Story Of Gumbe

The square gumbe frame drum was created centuries ago by enslaved Africans in Jamaica.

Afropop Classic August 18, 2022

Nuits D'Afrique in Montreal: 2022

This program features live highlights and interviews from the Nuits D'Afrique festival in Montreal, 2022.

Afropop Classic August 11, 2022

Changüí!

Changüí: The Sound of Guantánamo

Afropop Classic July 8, 2022

Toronto's African Scene

Toronto's Africa Scene

Afropop Classic June 30, 2022

Dakar Muse

Dakar Muse" takes us to one of the most exciting musical cities in Africa. We'll meet young stars on the Mbalax scene, Senegal's national music

Afropop Classic May 15, 2022

Bomba, Plena and Puerto Rican Protest Music

Puerto Rican protest songs over the past two centuries

Afropop Classic May 6, 2022

GC's DJ Road Show: Béco's Brazil

Georges co-hosts with Béco Dranoff in Sao Paulo for a survey of new music from Brazil.

Afropop Classic February 24, 2022

The Black History of Tap Dancing

Afropop Classic February 17, 2022

The S Factor

In this episode of Afropop Worldwide, WOWD’s Jolly Papa Radio (Eme Awa and Michael Shereikis) along with Afrobeats stars Wunmi Olaiya, Seun Olata, David Dzizonou and more try to extricate an answer out of this prickly question: What Is The S Factor separating Afrobeat and Afrobeats?

Afropop Classic January 27, 2022

WOMEX: The Lusophone Connection

Highlights from the Lusophone acts at the 2021 WOMEX trade fair in Porto, Portugal

Afropop Classic January 20, 2022

I Am The Upsetter: The Sonic Innovation of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry

Afropop Classic January 6, 2022

A Tango With Robert Farris Thompson

Afropop Classic December 30, 2021

Afropop Wildcards, 2021

Georges Collinet and Banning Eyre discuss musical highlights from 2021.

Afropop Classic December 23, 2021

AfroJam

We jam to cool new releases by Jupiter & Okwess, Toots (RIP) & the Maytals, Dobet Gnahore, Khaira Arby (RIP), Adekunle Gold, Tiwa Savage, WizKid, Angelique Kidjo & Burna Boy, Delgres and others.

Afropop Classic December 16, 2021

WOMEX Rises!

Highlight interviews and performances from WOMEX 2021 in Porto, Portugal.

Afropop Classic December 2, 2021

Jamaica: Big A Yard, Big Abroad

In this program, we move yard to yard in Jamaica, listening to acoustic music being written and recorded, smelling trees and flowers, and meeting legendary artists like Ken Boothe, Winston McAnuff, Cedric Myton of the Congos, Kiddus I, Robbie Lyn, Viceroys, or Nambo Robinson, as well as a number of young and emerging reggae artists like JAH9, Var, and Derajah.

Afropop Classic November 4, 2021

New Sounds From Nigeria

Radio program on new music and recent events in Nigeria in 2020.

Afropop Classic September 30, 2021

The Gorgon, The Originator, and The Dub Master: Reggae Pioneers Bunny Lee, U Roy, and King Tubby

In "The Gorgon, The Originator and The Dub Master," producer David Katz leads a tour of indelible changes brought about by producer Bunny "Striker" Lee, DJ U Roy and the engineer and sound-system owner, King Tubby, to demonstrate how they changed popular music worldwide.

Afropop Classic September 16, 2021

The Story of Baobab

Members Rudy Gomis, Barthelemy Attisso, Thierno Koite, Balla Sidibe talk about life in this truly one-of-a-kind group, the specialists in all styles, half-a-century old and still evolving: the mighty Orchestra Baobab.

Afropop Classic August 12, 2021

New Moves in Afro-Jazz

A deep dive into current Afro-jazz music.

Afropop Classic July 15, 2021

Live from the Archive 1: S.O.Bs Edition

Live Afropop Worldwide recordings of Papa Wemba, Marcé et Tumpak, Chaba Fadela and Cheb Sahraoui and Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens at S.O.Bs nightclub in New York City.