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Afropop Classic January 19, 2023

Afro-Tech: Stories of Synths in African Music

In this episode, we explore the synthesizer, looking closely at the history of this ubiquitous (and often debated) piece of musical technology, and investigating how and why it was first used in a variety of African musics.

Afropop Classic January 5, 2023

From Haiti to the World

From Paris to New Orleans and Boston, Haitian musicians are shaking up the music scene.

Afropop Classic December 29, 2022

Visit To Afro-Sweden

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.

Closeup November 15, 2022

Ladama in the Studio

Ladama is a collective of four female musicians and activists from Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and the U.S. Drawing on traditions from all these countries and beyond, they create original music with the zest of soul, r&b and pop

Afropop Classic November 3, 2022

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

Closeup November 1, 2022

Agua y Luz: Music of Tumaco and the Afro Colombian Pacific

Currulao is the traditional music of Colombia’s majority-Black, southern Pacific coastal region

Closeup October 18, 2022

Bacardi Beats of Pretoria

Bacardi music a sub genre from kwaito to the latest amapiano hits. In this episode, we travel to Pretoria, South Africa, to discover a little-known link in the complex chain of genres:

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.

Closeup October 5, 2022

Suso: Gambia's Global Griots

Susso is a collaborative project between the Suso and Kuyateh Griot families of Gambia, in particular Yusupha and Ansumana Suso, Jabou Kuyateh and U.K. producer and bassist Huw Bennett.

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.

Closeup September 28, 2022

Geraldo Pino and Fela Kuti in Ghana

Geraldo Pino was an early influence on Fela Kuti in Ghana.

Afropop Classic September 22, 2022

South African Roots in the 21st Century

Closeup September 20, 2022

Jamaa Fest, Sierra Leone's Forgotten Festival

Yinka Rickford-Anguin tells the story of Jamaa fest in Sierra Leone in 1994.

Closeup September 8, 2022

Mauritius’s Sega Roots

Deep dive into the history and current state of sega music from Mauritius. Narrated and produced by Banning Eyre

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.

Closeup August 23, 2022

Afrobeats By the Bay

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

Closeup August 9, 2022

Making Waves: A Congolese Guitarist Tests His Range

Abë Levine tells the story of Congolese guitarist Siama Matazungidi.

Closeup July 26, 2022

The Cavemen: Highlife in the Age of Afrobeats

Fay Fay profiles the young Nigerian highlife act, The Cavemen.

Closeup July 12, 2022

The Rise of Hip-Hop in Malawi

Kenneth Lipanga and Banning Eyre unpack the history of hip-hop in Malawi.

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?