Hip Deep May 29, 2025
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
Ned Sublette Explores Iconic Songs That Shaped Jamaican Music History
Hip Deep May 15, 2025
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
Banning Eyre wraps up his two-part feature on African Beatmakers, with a feature on Dami TNT from Nigeria.
Hip Deep May 8, 2025
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
Afropop visits Kano in Northern Nigeria to meet local nanaye artists and meet young Hausa hip-hop artists.
Afropop Classic April 24, 2025
Afropop Worldwide honors two icons of Garifuna music, Andy Palacio and Aurelio Martinez.
Hip Deep April 17, 2025
In this Hip Deep program, Afropop explores musical connections between Africa and India.
Hip Deep April 16, 2025
This program explores the Gnawa music and tradition in Morocco with author and scholar Deborah Kapchan.
Planet Afropop April 15, 2025
Akshaj Turebylu talks to Somali deejays in Minnesota and to Songhoy Blues about their new album, Heritage.
Hip Deep April 10, 2025
Hip Deep April 3, 2025
In this Hip Deep edition, Joseph Braude reports on the lives, legacy and music of Africans in Gulf States, Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
Afropop Classic March 27, 2025
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
Planet Afropop March 18, 2025
Morgan Greenstreet explores Fra Fra Simpa music in Tamale, Ghana.
Hip Deep March 13, 2025
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
Afropop salutes the life of the late Cesaria Evora of Cabo Verde.
Planet Afropop March 4, 2025
Mukwae Wabei Siyolwe reports on the first AfroPopup in Malawi.
Hip Deep February 27, 2025
In this Hip Deep edition, Marlon Bishop and Marilyn Halter explore the Cape Verdean, creole experience in New England.
Hip Deep February 26, 2025
This Hip Deep edition tells the history of African influences in Venezuelan music.
Afropop Classic February 20, 2025
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
This podcast tells the story of Ghazi and Boom.Diwan with Arturo O’Farrill.
Hip Deep February 13, 2025
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
Hip Deep January 30, 2025
Hip Deep January 30, 2025
Hip Deep January 23, 2025
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.
Hip Deep January 9, 2025
In this Hip Deep edition, Joseph Braude recounts the Zanj Rebellion and the origins of the Suni Shiite divide in Islam.
Planet Afropop January 7, 2025
Akshaj Turebylu triangulates the influences responsible for the irresistible, intercontinental, genre-bending, collaborative album called History of House.
