A Visit to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
In our visit to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, we go beyond the handful of artists who have achieved international careers and dive into the local s...
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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...
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Colombia in NYC
New York City is home to a diverse community of Colombian musicians and groups who create in a wide range of traditional, popular and experi...
A Remembrance of Leo Sarkisian
For some 50 years, Leo Sarkisian was a worldwide staple on the overseas radio broadcast of Voice of America. A talented musician, raised in...
With Feet In Many Worlds
As the 21st century rolls on, more and more of the musical artists who are making a difference cannot be pinned down to any one national ide...
Celebrating Georges Collinet
From his Cameroonian roots, to his DJ days in Paris, his global broadcast career on VOA from the 1960s into the ‘80s, and his 38-year career...
Ring the Alarm: A History of Sound System Culture
n Jamaica, sound systems are more than just a stack of speakers blasting the latest tunes to an eager crowd. Over the last 70 years, they ha...
Reissued - African Vinyl in the 21st Century
The golden age of vinyl records is long past in Africa, but the market for rare and reissued African vinyl outside the continent has been gr...
Is Mara Nigeria's Answer to EDM?
In this special episode we introduce you to a fast-paced, emotional sound built from the streets of Lagos, Nigeria. We follow DJ Khalifa, th...
Lagos Roots: Fuji, Juju, and Apala
Beneath the gloss of Nigeria’s contemporary pop, older roots styles, mostly derived from Yoruba tradition, still thrive. In this program, we...
Afro-Tech: Stories of Synths in African Music
Technology is one of the great drivers of musical change, and often one of its least understood. In this episode, we explore the synthesizer...
The Immortal 1970's
The 1970s was a decade that changed the world's popular music... No. Changed the world's culture. Whether you were boogieing to full-flower...
Voice of the Leopard
The leopard cult of Ekpe in Calabar, in present-day Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon, has one of the most unique performance traditions in...
Samba, Forro, Candomble, Tropicalia: The Sounds of Brazilian Artists in the US
There's a lot of fantastic music being made by Brazilian artists living in the U.S. They entertain an estimated 1.5 million Brazilian immigr...
A Spiritual Journey to Mbanza Congo
To make this unprecedented program, producer Ned Sublette traveled to Mbanza-Kongo, the ancient seat of the Kongo empire located in present-...
Music and the Story of Haiti: From Vodou to Compas to Racine to Rara and Beyond
Haiti became the first black-ruled republic in the Americas in 1804, and music has mirrored, and at times shaped, the twists and turns of Ha...
Hip Deep Angola Part 1: Music and Nation in Luanda
We explore the role music played in the creation of a uniquely Angolan consciousness as the country struggled toward independence in the 196...
A Tale of Two Rebellions - Zanj, Fatamid
Our Hip Deep edition “A Tale of Two Rebellions,” produced in August, 2007, recounts the stories of two remarkable military campaigns in earl...
Africans in the Persian Gulf
Scholar and author Joseph Braude guides us through the often overlooked popular music of the Persian Gulf, the music known as Khaliji. We le...
Celebrating Toumani Diabaté
Toumani Diabaté, the most celebrated kora player of his time, passed away in July, 2024, just days before his 59thbirthday. Afropop Worldwid...
The Tropical Soul of Jorge Ben Jor
Jorge Ben Jor first began to experiment with fusions of samba, bossa nova, rhythm ‘n’ blues and soul in the early 1960s. Together with Caeta...