Afropop Worldwide | Audio Programs

Afro-Dominicana: The Other Dominican Republic

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 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.