Audio Programs
Afropop Classic June 5, 2025
Cooking with Georges Revisited
Georges Collinet cooks Yassa Chicken, and hosts Baba John Mason in the kitchen.
Hip Deep May 29, 2025
Afro-Dominicana: The Other Dominican Republic
This week, Afropop revisits the home of styles such as merengue and bachata, but this time we’ll be looking towards the most deeply African side of Dominican music—little known outside of the island.
Afropop Classic May 22, 2025
Ten Tunes that Shook Kingston
Ned Sublette Explores Iconic Songs That Shaped Jamaican Music History
Hip Deep May 15, 2025
Afro-Lisbon and the Lusophone Atlantic: Dancing Toward the Future
On this Hip Deep edition, we take you on a journey to Lisbon, a city facing both the sea and 600 years of its own history.
Planet Afropop May 13, 2025
Planet Afropop: African Beatmakers 2-Dami TNT
Banning Eyre wraps up his two-part feature on African Beatmakers, with a feature on Dami TNT from Nigeria.
Hip Deep May 8, 2025
Seize the Dance: The BaAka of Central Africa
This program will initiate listeners into one of the most enchanting and mysterious musical practices in Africa, BaAka people music.
Hip Deep May 1, 2025
Hip Deep in Northern Nigeria
Afropop visits Kano in Northern Nigeria to meet local nanaye artists and meet young Hausa hip-hop artists.
Afropop Classic April 24, 2025
Remembering Andy Palacio and Aurelio Martinez
Afropop Worldwide honors two icons of Garifuna music, Andy Palacio and Aurelio Martinez.
Hip Deep April 17, 2025
African Sounds of the Indian Subcontinent
In this Hip Deep program, Afropop explores musical connections between Africa and India.
Hip Deep April 16, 2025
Spiritual Journeys: Traveling Spirit Masters, The Gnawa of Morocco
This program explores the Gnawa music and tradition in Morocco with author and scholar Deborah Kapchan.
Planet Afropop April 15, 2025
Planet Afropop: Somali DJs in America and Songhoy Blues
Akshaj Turebylu talks to Somali deejays in Minnesota and to Songhoy Blues about their new album, Heritage.
Hip Deep April 10, 2025
A Hip Deep Portrait of King Sunny Ade
Afropop Classic March 27, 2025
Women's History Month Finale: Four Women of the West
In West Africa, women are on the cutting edge of musical and cultural progress. This program looks at four singer/composers with roots in tradition and unique ideas about how to keep them current in the fast-changing milieu of today’s African music.
Hip Deep March 20, 2025
Women's History Month: Fairuz, A Woman for all Seasons
Planet Afropop March 18, 2025
Planet Afropop: Simpa Sonics: Neo-traditional dance music from Northern Ghana
Morgan Greenstreet explores Fra Fra Simpa music in Tamale, Ghana.
Hip Deep March 13, 2025
Reconstructing Somalia: Love Songs at the Birth of a Nation
This program offers a rare musical portrait of Somalia’s formative, pre-civil war years (1960-90). In a rising mood of patriotism and hope, Somalis sought to forge a culturally authentic, but also modern, national identity
Afropop Classic March 6, 2025
A Tribute to Cesária Évora
Afropop salutes the life of the late Cesaria Evora of Cabo Verde.
Planet Afropop March 4, 2025
Planet Afropop: AfroPopup in Malawi: Rising Stars from the Warm Heart of Africa
Mukwae Wabei Siyolwe reports on the first AfroPopup in Malawi.
Hip Deep February 27, 2025
Diaspora Encounters: Kriolu in New England, The Cape Verdean-American Story
In this Hip Deep edition, Marlon Bishop and Marilyn Halter explore the Cape Verdean, creole experience in New England.
Hip Deep February 26, 2025
The Rise of Afro-Venezuelan Music in the Hugo Chavez Era
This Hip Deep edition tells the history of African influences in Venezuelan music.
Afropop Classic February 20, 2025
Black History Month 2025: A Brief History of Funk
Funk is a perennial favorite. In this panoramic history of the grooviest of genres, we hear track after track of absolute boogie-down classics.
Planet Afropop February 18, 2025
Planet Afropop: Boom.Diwan: Arabian Pearl Diving Meets Afro-Cuba
This podcast tells the story of Ghazi and Boom.Diwan with Arturo O’Farrill.
Hip Deep February 13, 2025
Shake It Fo Ya Hood: The History of New Orleans Bounce
For this Hip Deep edition, Afropop digs into the close-knit scene, talking to dancers, producers, MCs, and managers from over 30 years of bounce, all to explore the beat that drives New Orleans.
Afropop Classic February 6, 2025
African Roots in Rock 'n' Roll
Hip Deep January 30, 2025
The Mighty Amazon
Hip Deep January 30, 2025
Hip Deep Ghana 1: Ebo Taylor and the Pioneers of Afro-Funk
Hip Deep January 23, 2025
Cairo - Hollywood of the Middle East
By the mid 20th century, Cairo had become the unrivaled center for music and film production in the Middle East. Producers, writers, composers, actors, musicians, star singers, and creators of every stripe flocked here to take part in the city's fervent, international, progressive artistic milieu.
Planet Afropop January 7, 2025
Planet Afropop: Jo'burg Meets Detroit: Soweto Gospel Choir's History of House
Akshaj Turebylu triangulates the influences responsible for the irresistible, intercontinental, genre-bending, collaborative album called History of House.
Hip Deep January 2, 2025
