Afropop Classic November 7, 2019
Hip Deep October 31, 2019
This program will initiate listeners into one of the most enchanting and mysterious musical practices in Africa, BaAka people music.
Hip Deep October 24, 2019
Afropop Classic October 17, 2019
Afropop Classic October 10, 2019
Hip Deep October 3, 2019
Hip Deep September 26, 2019
Afropop Classic September 19, 2019
Afropop Classic September 12, 2019
This program ventures into corners of Africa we hear from rarely, guided by adventurous field recordists and crate diggers.
Closeup September 10, 2019
Afropop Classic September 5, 2019
Afropop Classic August 29, 2019
Hip Deep August 22, 2019
Closeup August 20, 2019
Afropop Classic August 15, 2019
Afropop Classic August 8, 2019
Closeup August 6, 2019
Afropop Classic August 1, 2019
Closeup July 23, 2019
At the 2019 Atlantic Music Expo in Cape Verde, Afropop's Sebastian Bouknight met Manolo, a longtime rapper who is trying to find a foothold in the country's overcrowded music scene.
Afropop Classic July 18, 2019
Hip Deep July 11, 2019
Closeup July 9, 2019
Afropop Classic July 4, 2019
Closeup June 26, 2019
Afropop Classic June 20, 2019
Afropop Classic June 13, 2019
Afropop Classic May 30, 2019
Afropop Classic May 16, 2019
Afropop Classic May 9, 2019
Afropop Classic April 25, 2019
Afropop Classic April 18, 2019
Afropop Classic April 11, 2019
Afropop Classic April 4, 2019
Afropop Classic March 28, 2019
Afropop Classic March 21, 2019
There's an exciting new sound exploding in Durban, South Africa: Gqom! In this program, we explore the music and meet the young generation of artists creating it.
Afropop Classic March 14, 2019
Afropop Classic March 7, 2019
Afropop Classic February 28, 2019
Afropop Classic February 21, 2019
Hip Deep February 14, 2019
Afropop Classic January 31, 2019
Afropop Classic January 24, 2019
Paris has been one of the most important incubators of African music on the planet. On this program, we look back on 30 years of adventures with African music in Paris.
Afropop Classic January 17, 2019
Afropop Classic January 3, 2019
Hip Deep December 27, 2018
Afropop Classic December 20, 2018
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 December 6, 2018
A round-up of some of our favorite 2018 releases.
Afropop Classic November 29, 2018
Afropop Classic November 22, 2018
Afropop Classic November 8, 2018
Hip Deep November 1, 2018
Afropop Classic October 11, 2018
Contemporary Nigerian artists and others recall the man, the music and the legacy of Nigeria's greatest musician.
Closeup October 9, 2018
Afropop Classic October 4, 2018
Hip Deep September 20, 2018
Closeup September 18, 2018
Hip Deep September 13, 2018
Hip Deep September 6, 2018
Closeup September 5, 2018
Afropop Classic August 30, 2018
Afropop Classic August 16, 2018
This spring, Afropop returned to Fes, Morocco, for the 23rd annual World Sacred Music Festival, a sumptuous spread of music from across the globe that blurs the boundaries of what is sacred.
Closeup August 14, 2018
Afropop Classic August 9, 2018
Closeup July 31, 2018
Closeup July 17, 2018
Closeup July 3, 2018
Closeup June 19, 2018
Hip Deep June 14, 2018
Afropop Classic June 7, 2018
Closeup June 5, 2018
Afropop Classic May 31, 2018
Afropop Classic May 24, 2018
Closeup May 22, 2018
Afropop Classic May 17, 2018
Hip Deep May 10, 2018
Hip Deep May 3, 2018
Beneath the gloss of Nigeria’s contemporary pop, older roots styles, mostly derived from Yoruba tradition, still thrive.
Afropop Classic April 19, 2018
Afropop Classic April 12, 2018
Afropop Classic March 29, 2018
Hip Deep March 15, 2018
Afropop Classic February 22, 2018
Hip Deep February 15, 2018
Closeup February 6, 2018
Hip Deep February 1, 2018
Afropop Classic January 25, 2018
As Afropop turns 30, we take a stroll down memory lane to enjoy some of the extraordinary live recordings we brought to the public radio community in the 1990s including Thione Seck in Dakar, Gerardo Nunez in New York, Abdel Aziz el Mubarak in London, Lobi Traore in Bamako, a carnival comparsa in Cuba and David Rudder in New York. Co-hosted by Georges Collinet, Siji Awoyinka, and Sean Barlow.
Closeup January 23, 2018
The songs of Betsayda Machado, the leading voice of Afro-Venezuelan music, address many of the most painful topics of daily life of her country: hunger, poverty, shortages of basic medicine, and deadly street riots – stemming from the current economic and political crisis in Venezuela.
Hip Deep January 11, 2018
This program presents a musical portrait of Bamako in the wake of crisis. We explore the precarious lives of griots in today’s Bamako, focusing on the upbringing and education of children in these hereditary families of historian-entertainers.
Closeup January 9, 2018
Amal Hussein and Hamdi Mohamed have a lot in common. Both were born in Kenya, where their parents fled as refugees during the Somali Civil War, and both came to Boston when they were just a few years old. They’re both poets — and equally important for this story — both their grandmothers are poets...
Afropop Classic January 4, 2018
Alex Wolfe, director of the film "Santo Domingo Blues: The Story of Bachata" brings us live ambience and stories of bachata stars Luis Vargas, Antony Santos, Luis Segura, Adridia Ventura.
Closeup December 26, 2017
Underneath the streets of New York City, in the tunnels and stations of the busiest subway system in the country, there is a thriving music scene. Amidst the noise of passing trains, we meet Papa Fara, a Cameroonian xylophonist and singer, who plays for tips and captures the love of strangers and makes friends with his quick, warm smile. But, behind the smile and beautiful melodies, something is troubling Papa Fara. There’s a reason he’d rather be underground.
Afropop Classic December 21, 2017
In this program, we explore the new "Afropolitan" sounds of Paris, from concert halls to studios, from the heart of the city to immigrant neighborhoods in the banlieues.
Hip Deep December 14, 2017
In recognition of the end of Robert Mugabe's 37-year rule in Zimbabwe, we are rebroadcasting our program on the career of Thomas Mapfumo during the Mugabe years.
Closeup December 12, 2017
We examine how the unresolved issues that triggered the devastating Biafran War in the 1960s still resonate and persist in the Niger Delta today on this Afropop Closeup.
