Planet Afropop This new podcast from Afropop Worldwide hosted by Georges Collinet, Banning Eyre and Mukwae Wabei Siyolwe. While our radio programs provide a comprehensive history of African and African Diaspora music, Planet Afropop focuses on the present, the fast-moving, ever-changing, always thrilling developments for Afro music in the 21st century. Afropop Worldwide speaks to history; Planet Afropop speaks to the present!
Planet Afropop July 17, 2025
Banning Eyre meets Thomas Mapfumo at home and introduces Mary Anibal.
Planet Afropop July 8, 2025
Nathaniel Braddock digs into the alternative music scene in Kinshasa, Congo.
Planet Afropop June 24, 2025
Host FayFay sits with two emerging Nigerian artists whose paths are as bold as their sound, Looking for Avala and Inima.
Planet Afropop June 10, 2025
Planet Afropop profiles Madalitso Band from Malawi, and interviews Salif Keita.
Planet Afropop May 13, 2025
Banning Eyre wraps up his two-part feature on African Beatmakers, with a feature on Dami TNT from Nigeria.
Planet Afropop April 15, 2025
Akshaj Turebylu talks to Somali deejays in Minnesota and to Songhoy Blues about their new album, Heritage.
Planet Afropop March 18, 2025
Morgan Greenstreet explores Fra Fra Simpa music in Tamale, Ghana.
Planet Afropop March 4, 2025
Mukwae Wabei Siyolwe reports on the first AfroPopup in Malawi.
Planet Afropop February 18, 2025
This podcast tells the story of Ghazi and Boom.Diwan with Arturo O’Farrill.
Planet Afropop January 7, 2025
Akshaj Turebylu triangulates the influences responsible for the irresistible, intercontinental, genre-bending, collaborative album called History of House.
Planet Afropop December 24, 2024
Georges, Mukwae and Banning play music to wrap up a most unusual year, 2024.
Planet Afropop December 10, 2024
Banning Eyre profiles and celebrates Malian kora player Toumani Diabaté in and episode of Planet Afropop.
Planet Afropop November 19, 2024
Fay Fay introduces us to two rising Afrobeats stars, First Klaz and Kemuel.
Planet Afropop November 5, 2024
This podcast tells the story of Guinean singer/composer Sia Tolno and the Afro Dead collective in Barcelona, Spain.
Planet Afropop October 8, 2024
Zimbabwe's Mokoomba creates a song to be remixed as Afro-House.
Planet Afropop September 24, 2024
This Planet Afropop episode tells the story of women in southwest Madagascar's tsapiky music.
Planet Afropop September 10, 2024
DJ Kix talks with organizers of the Afro Nation Festival 2024.
Planet Afropop June 25, 2024
Planet Afropop wraps up Season 1 with Noise Cans, The Swanky Kitchen Band and top picks in new releases
Planet Afropop June 11, 2024
Producer Muwkae Wabei Siyolwe speaks with the Garifuna Collective and Dr. Gwen Nunez Gonzales, a Garifuna language matriarch in Belize, who shares stories of resilience and cultural citizenship.
Planet Afropop April 30, 2024
On this episode of Planet Afropop, Georges Collinet interviews fellow Cameroonian Gino Sitson. Sitson is a maverick maestro who blends unique vocal techniques with sounds from classical instruments—cello, violin, double bass—with African traditional elements.
Planet Afropop April 16, 2024
In this episode, producer Elodie Maillot in Paris reviews the career of mercurial Algerian-French singer, composer and activist Rachid Taha, who died in 2018.
Planet Afropop April 2, 2024
In this episode, Planet Afropop’s Lagos correspondent Fay Fay profiles a unique multi-generational band on the Nigerian scene: Alternative Reflective Beats (ARB).
Planet Afropop March 19, 2024
Tanzanian music veteran John Kitime guides the Planet Afropop team through highlights of singeli and Swahili rumba in 2024.
Planet Afropop March 5, 2024
On the cusp of a world tour, genre-bending South African artist Bongeziwe Mabandla sits down with Planet Afropop's Mukwae Wabei Siyolwe. Mabandla, a true maverick, draws on his country's rich musical history but forges his own path.
Planet Afropop February 20, 2024
Planet Afropop: Mas Carnaval in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe with Mukwae Wabei Siyolwe
Planet Afropop February 6, 2024
Every winter, starting in February, the organizers of the annual Nuits D’Afrique festival put on a battle of the Afropop bands.
Planet Afropop January 23, 2024
Banning Eyre speaks with Moh Kouyate about his new album, Mokhôya.
Planet Afropop January 9, 2024
Explore the vibrant legacy of Nigerian Igbo highlife through a captivating conversation with Okwy Osadebe, son of highlife legend Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe, featuring insights into his life in the U.S., his new album 'Igbo Amaka', and exclusive tracks from both father and son on WOWD Radio.
Planet Afropop December 27, 2023
Planet Afropop closes out 2023, focusing on celebratory music from the Democratic Republic of Congo. First, Mukwae notes some of the year's trends in global African pop. Then we go to the streets of Kinshasa with live music from Kin’Gongolo Kinyata, recorded at WOMEX 2023 in Spain. We end at the 35th Anniversary Dance Party at SOB’s in New York City with Samba Mapangala and Soukous Stars. It's a rollicking finale to an eventful year in African music.
Planet Afropop December 12, 2023
