Audio Programs
Afropop Classic July 27, 2023
Journeys with the Oud
This Afropop Worldwide program traces the history of the oud.
Hip Deep July 20, 2023
The Musical Legacy of Al Andalus, Part 1 - Europe
Closeup July 18, 2023
Etienne Charles: The Freedom of Carnival
Afropop Classic July 13, 2023
Mali Magic 2000
Hip Deep July 6, 2023
Mali: Ancient Empires to Multi-Cultural Democracy
Mali: Ancient Empires to Multi-Cultural Democracy
Closeup July 4, 2023
Jacqueline Crooks’s Fire Rush
Afropop Classic June 29, 2023
Mali’s Amadou & Mariam Headline the 25th Afro Roots Fest in Miami
Mali’s Amadou & Mariam Headline the 25th Afro Roots Fest in Miami
Afropop Classic June 1, 2023
Journeys with the Kora
The 21-string harp, the kora, is deeply explored in this Afropop Worldwide program.
Afropop Classic May 24, 2023
Taking the Pulse in Dar Es Salaam 2023
Afropop Worldwide sums up its 2023 visit to Dar Es Salaam, with live music and interviews.
Afropop Classic May 18, 2023
Oromo Music: Historical Memory and Competing Visions in Ethiopia
Oromo Music: Historical Memory and Competing Visions in Ethiopia
Afropop Classic May 11, 2023
Remembering Johnny Clegg
Thirty years of interviews and music from Johnny Clegg, Juluka and Savuka.
Afropop Classic April 13, 2023
Remembering Papa Wemba
This program explores the life and music of Congolese superstar Papa Wemba.
Afropop Classic March 30, 2023
Sauti Za Busara, Sounds of Wisdom 2023
This program samples performances from the Sauti Za Busara festival in Stonetown, Zanzibar, Tanzania, in February 2023.
Afropop Classic March 23, 2023
WOMEX 2022: The Women Rule
WOMEX 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal, featured mostly women-led bands in its African and African diaspora lineup.
Afropop Classic March 9, 2023
Afro Roots Fest 2022 with Daymé Arocena and Sinkane
We hear highlights from the 2022 Afro-Roots Fest in Miami featuring Dayme Arocena and Sinkane.
Hip Deep February 16, 2023
The Prehistory of New Orleans Music - Treasures from the Hogan
This program tells the story of how jazz emerged in the context of all the other African American musics that proliferated in late 19th and early 20th century New Orleans: blues, ragtime, Mardi Gras Indian music, vaudeville and minstrelsy, spiritual church music, and more.
Hip Deep February 9, 2023
Bangkok After Dark: The Story of Maurice Rocco
Jazz pianist Maurice Rocco was a star of American nightclubs and Hollywood films in the 1930s-40s, playing in an ecstatic, stand-up style that left a deep impression on rock and roll.
Afropop Classic January 26, 2023
Béco’s Brazil: New Sounds for 2023
Brazilian broadcaster, producer and music aficionado Béco Dranoff returns to Afropop Worldwide with a set of great new music from South America’s music cauldron.
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
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:
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.
