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Afropop Worldwide is an internationally syndicated weekly radio series, online guide to African and world music, and an international music archive, that has introduced American listeners to the music cultures of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean since 1988. Our radio program is hosted by Georges Collinet from Cameroon, the radio series is distributed by Public Radio International to 110 stations in the U.S., via XM satellite radio, in Africa via and Europe via Radio Multikulti.
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The Sounds in My Head is a biweekly music show featuring songs and bands you might have missed. Hosted by Daniel since 2004. Musically The Sounds in My Head attempts to be fairly eclectic, but probably tends to lean towards "indie pop" music. Also, I try to squeeze in as much left-wing propaganda as possible between tracks.
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Afrobeats Intelligence Podcast is a podcast spin-off of the popular music newsletter, Afrobeats Intelligence. It's focused on African music and the sprawling ecosystem that inspires and supports creativity from Lagos, Accra, Nairobi, Johannesburg, and more. Hosted by multi-award-winning music journalist Joey Akan, the podcast explores the intersection of art, humanity and processes that give birth to African sonic excellence. Expansive interviews, the most informed and diverse views, and a s ...
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Mixpak is a Brooklyn based record label founded by Dre Skull . Mixpak FM delivers forward thinking mixes from DJs around the world. Catch the vibe.
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Good Music. Positive Vibes. It's That Simple!
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A radio show for Africans by Africans based in Kitchener-Waterloo, hosted by Ediri Obor. We will be keeping you up to date with pop culture from the motherland, brought to you by @digimillennials. Wherever you are, you can tune in to MidtownRadio.ca every Tuesday night at 7pm ET.
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De Liby and Friends Talk about Amazing and crazy industry Moments, life choices, changes and what they have going on in their lives
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Contact Us > WHATSAPP: +2349038023802 || Email: afropopradio@post.com || No.1 Music Podcast - Afro-POP Radio is a UK based podcast now situated in Nigeria which focuses on the new sound(Afrobeat) the radio serves as your guide to what Afropop/Afrobeat is worth listening to and which one doesn't worth the time and money..
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Hey there!!! So it's mostly rantings sprinkled with some sense, some times. Have a go and let me know what you think!😌 PS: I always have a cold... Sorry
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Produced and hosted by self-professed music nerd Justin Lee, This Broken Mixtape is an interview-based podcast that explores how music can play a vital and meaningful role in our lives. Every episode, Justin Lee interviews exciting personalities from all walks of life, including musicians, artists, writers, comedians, chefs, and entrepreneurs. Guests recount their personal relationship with music and the memorable events that have become synonymous with specific songs, albums, and artists. S ...
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Yes, it’s the age of South African House, Afrobeats, Afro R&B and the likes, but roots music lives on in South Africa. This show updates the Zulu pop music known as maskanda, with a look back at its history and a survey of the current scene--rich musically, but troubled by fan rivalry that can lead to violence and even deaths. We’ll hear nimble uka…
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S21,E15: 08/26/24 (Dumbo Gets Mad, Bibi Club, Ford Chastain, Katy Kirby, Marina Allen, Pasiflorez, Smaller Hearts)
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Season 21 Episode 15 The Depth of an Answer - Dumbo Gets Mad Rue du Repos - Bibi Club Le feu - Bibi Club Strangers - Ford Chastain No Way - Ford Chastain Table - Katy Kirby Drop Dead - Katy Kirby Bad Eye Opal - Marina Allen Love Comes Back - Marina Allen Gravel Disco Road - Pasiflorez Farmers Friend - Pasiflorez Deadly Understudy - Smaller Hearts T…
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S3E7: Harmony 'H-Money' Samuels - Crafting Global Hits
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From the streets of London to the palm-lined avenues of California, Harmony ‘H-Money’ Samuels has lived a life in sound. He’s a man who has seen it all: a Grammy-nominated producer who has shaped the sonic landscapes of legends, from Janet Jackson’s timeless grooves to Wizkid’s Afro-fusion anthems. On this episode of "Afrobeats Intelligence," Joey …
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North African music receives very little coverage in the United States. There are no high-profile mixes of recent Tunisian underground dance music from hip DJs, and no young Algerian musicians with major distribution deals in the U.S. So we decided to explore what exactly is going on in this part of the world. We trace the origins of some of the re…
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Bongo Nation: Tanzania's Music Economy by Afropop WorldwideBy Afropop Worldwide
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S21,E14: 08/12/24 (Famous Friend, Brigitte Calls Me Baby, Majak Door, Silver Biplanes, Gitkin, Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band, Molly Lewis, Golden Bug and The Limiñanas feat. Vega Voga)
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Season 21 Episode 14 Blue - Famous Friend The Future is Our Way Out - Brigitte Calls Me Baby Impressively Average - Brigitte Calls Me Baby Borderline - Majak Door Call It What You Want - Majak Door Back of My Mind - Silver Biplanes Silver Wings - Silver Biplanes Go Time - Gitkin Don't You Want Me Baby (Cumbia) - Gitkin Love for the Sake of Dub - Ba…
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This program tells the story of generations of creative musicians from Benin who translate traditional, largely Vodun occult music into popular and experimental music. We hear traditional music styles including tchinkoumé, agbadja, and kakagbo, and explore how, starting in the 1970s, Sagbohan Danialou (a singer, drummer, guitarist and composer know…
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Shake It Fo Ya Hood - The History of New Orleans Bounce
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New Orleans, Louisiana is home to some of America's greatest musical traditions, and plays an outsized influence on the evolution of everything from jazz through to r&b, rock and funk. Today, the city is still legendary for its second line brass bands and brightly costumed Mardi Gras Indians. But if you've rolled through New Orleans on pretty much …
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S21,E13: 07/29/24 (Swiss Portrait, Badbadnotgood feat. Norah Jones, The National, Bathe Alone, LAVANDE, Pearl and The Oysters, Loma, Twen)
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Season 21 Episode 13 Worries - Swiss Portrait This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - Badbadnotgood feat. Norah Jones Heaven - The National Archive 81 - Bathe Alone 4ever - Bathe Alone Thérèse - LAVANDE Moon Canyon Park - Pearl & The Oysters D'Ya Hear Me! - Pearl & The Oysters Affinity - Loma Turnaround - Loma Lucky Onze - Twen This episode feature…
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Foutanga Babani Sissoko, known also as Baba Sora, was one of the most generous patrons of Malian musicians, particularly griots, in modern times. His gifts of cash, gold, cars and houses are legendary, and the amount of music he inspired was voluminous. But the source of all those riches turned out to be dubious, to say the least. And when he died …
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The Abakuá society of Cuba conserves with remarkable orthodoxy language and rituals from the Ekpe society of West Africa. For The Cameroon-Cuba Connection, Dr. Ivor Miller shares with Georges Collinet and Ned Sublette his decades of research into the roots of Cuban Abakuá in Cameroon. Featuring ceremonial and pop music of southern and southwestern …
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S21,E12: 07/15/24 (Professional Extra, Conflict at Serenity Pools, The Go! Team, Cornershop, Acoqui, Spacehog, Big Search, The Concretes, Becca Mancari)
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Season 21 Episode 12 Wherever You Are - Professional Extra Rosey Dream I - Conflict at Serenity Pools Yeah Totally Yeah - Conflict at Serenity Pools Feelgood by Numbers (Louie Zong Rework) - The Go! Team Everyone's a V.I.P. To Someone (Cornershop Remix) - The Go! Team Sleep on the Left Side - Cornershop Fibers & Graves - Acoqui Trust (feat. Luke Te…
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Rap, Reggae and Cultural Resistance in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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Belo Horizonte is Brazil’s sixth largest city and including its surrounding districts, the country’s third largest metropolitan area. The capital of Minas Gerais, a state built on mining, dairy products and coffee production, Belo Horizonte is often seen as a parochial, conservative backwater, yet its thriving alternative arts scene provides robust…
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Much has been made of Mexico's rich Spanish and indigenous heritage, but until recently there's been little talk of Mexico's so-called "Third Root": Africa. Africans came to Mexico with the Spanish as soldiers and slaves -- so many that by 1810, the black population of Mexico was equal to that of the United States. Today, African heritage persists …
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NSG is a British afroswing collective from Hackney East London. The group consists of Six members: OGD, Kruddz, Mojo, Dope, Papii Abz, and Mxjib. Their latest album, "Area Boyz," is out now.By Joey Akan
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In 1989, very few Americans had heard the extraordinary voice of the man destined to be named “Best African Artists of the 20th Century.” Senegal’s Youssou N’Dour and his juggernaut mbalax band Le Super Etoile had played at The Ritz in New York three years earlier, and had recently been signed to Virgin Records. N’Dour’s own star was undoubtedly on…
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Timi Dakolo is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and music producer. He emerged winner of the inaugural season of Idols West Africa in 2007. Accompanying his victory was a recording contract with Sony BMG, in addition to other prizes. A great vocalist his latest album is titled, "The Chorus Leader."By Joey Akan
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The Amizigh, or Berber, are the original inhabitants of North Africa, which means their roots run deeper than the region’s better known Arab or European inhabitants. Berber history and music span from ancient sounds from the Atlas and Kabyle mountains to the latest pop fusions. In this, the first of Afropop’s Berber music series, we get the history…
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The long awaited follow-up to Afropop's popular 2002 program "Berber Rising" brings listeners up to date on music being made by the original inhabitants of North Africa, the Imazighen, or Berber. The program will include interviews and music from Takfarinas, Malika Zarra, Idir, Amazight, Fatima Tabaamrant, Iness Mezel, Najat Aâtabou and more. We'll…
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Planet Afropop - Season Finale with Noise Cans and the Swanky Kitchen Band
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The 20th edition of Planet Afropop marks the end of our first season. In this episode, we sample top new music picks from Mukwae and Banning, Georges remembers a childhood sweetheart, Mukwae interviews Bermudian DJ Noise Cans, and Banning interviews Samuel Rose of the Swanky Kitchen Band from the Cayman Islands.…
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From the 1970s to the present—hip-hop and Afrobeats notwithstanding—the most beloved and popular music in Senegal has been and remains mbalax. Mbalax grew out of a scene where urban bands Dakar bands like the Star Band and Orchestra Baobab were experimenting with Afro-Cuban music, funk and other foreign styles, blending and mixing them with local t…
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Abdul Quam Tadese is a multi-faceted musician, culture entrepreneur and philanthropist.By Joey Akan
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Planet Afropop - The Garifuna Collective: They Came Before Columbus
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In this episode of Planet Afropop, we explore the music and language of the Caribbean coasts’ Afro-indigenous Garinagu People of Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, St. Vincent, and Nicaragua commonly known as the Garifuna. The official story is that these are descendants of enslaved Africans who were shipwrecked on the Island of St. Vincent in 1635. The …
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The "taarab" music of East Africa's Swahili coast offers an amazing history lesson. Bantu and coastal Africans, Arabs, Portuguese, Germans, Brits, and Indians all figure in. With guest, anthropologist and author, Kelly Askew, this Hip Deep program explores the taarab music of Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam, Tanga, and Mombasa, Kenya. The show features rar…
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On "Breaking Into Afrobeats" Georges Collinet and Lagos-based producer producer FayFay, shed light on the challenges faced by aspiring artists in the Afrobeats music industry in Nigeria. This episode introduces listeners to emerging talents like Romi, Bayanni, Boy Spyce, Lady Donli, Young John and Kidd Carder - highlighting their journeys, obstacle…
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Planet Afropop - Chimurenga Legacy: Thomas Mapfumo and Mary Anibal
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Afropop’s Banning Eyre published his prize-winning biography of Thomas Mapfumo, Lion Songs, in 2015. In this episode, he visits the Lion of Zimbabwe at his home in Eugene, Oregon, to discuss new music, the current state of Zimbabwe and more. We hear from Mapfumo’s latest album, Ndikutambire, and sneak previews of works in progress. We also meet 24-…
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Part 2 of our Hip Deep in Ethiopia series features insights from Professor Kay Shelemay of Harvard University, author most recently of Sing and Sing On: Sentinal Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora (2022). This episode, originally aired in 2009, takes us into Ethiopian Diaspora communities in the United States and Israel, an…
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Ethiopia was the first Christian nation in Africa, and the only African country never to be colonized. With ethnomusicologist Kay Kaufman Shelemay and Ethiopian music scholar and compiler Francis Falceto as guests, this Hip Deep program explores the role of the Ethiopian church and monarchy in building the country's unique brassy pop music. We samp…
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South Africa is one of the biggest dance music nations, and now it seems like the whole world is dancing along to its amapiano (piano/yanos) beats, a genre that blends its kwaito roots with house, jazz and its signature log drum.Afropop Worldwide first explored amapiano’s origins and growing popularity in October 2020. Since then, the genre has see…
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