Afropop Worldwide | Audio Programs

Off the Beaten Track in Malawi and Burkina Faso

Afropop Classic June 26, 2025

This program ventures into corners of Africa we hear from rarely, guided by adventurous field recordists and crate diggers.

Hip Deep July 4, 2024

La Bamba: The Afro-Mexican Story

Afropop Classic June 27, 2024

Youssou N'Dour Live at the Ritz in New York, 1989

Planet Afropop June 25, 2024

Planet Afropop: Season Finale with Noise Cans and the Swanky Kitchen Band

Planet Afropop wraps up Season 1 with Noise Cans, The Swanky Kitchen Band and top picks in new releases

Hip Deep June 20, 2024

Mbalax Fever

Afropop Classic June 13, 2024

Amazigh Rising II

Planet Afropop June 11, 2024

The Garifuna Collective: They Came Before Columbus

Afropop Classic June 6, 2024

Amazigh Rising

Hip Deep May 30, 2024

East African Taarab

Afropop Classic May 23, 2024

Breaking Into Afrobeats

Planet Afropop May 14, 2024

Planet Afropop: Chimurenga Legacy: Thomas Mapfumo and Mary Anibal

Hip Deep May 9, 2024

Ethiopia 2: Diaspora and Return

Hip Deep May 7, 2024

Ethiopia Part 1: Empire and Revolution

Afropop Classic May 2, 2024

Amapiano to the World

Planet Afropop April 30, 2024

Planet Afropop: Gino Sitson: Cameroonian Renaissance Man

Afropop Classic April 25, 2024

Saving the Malawi Tapes

Afropop Classic April 18, 2024

Thomas Mapfumo Live in NYC at SOB's

Planet Afropop April 16, 2024

Planet Afropop - Rachid Taha: African Punk Ghost

Hip Deep April 11, 2024

Thomas Mapfumo 1: The War Years

Part 1 of Afropop Worldwide's HIp Deep audio biography of Thomas Mapfumo focuses on his upbringing, musical education and the bands that lead up to the Blacks Unlimited. These are the war years, when Zimbabwe was fighting to throw off the burden of the racist Southern Rhodesian regime. This episode documents the birth of "chimurenga" music in the voices of those who made that history, many of whom have now joined the ancestors. Produced by Banning Eyre.