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 learn about the Africans of places like Bahrain and Kuwait - slaves of yore - their free descendents, and more recent waves of African immigrants, notably from Sudan. This episode features spectacular historic recordings, such as the songs of the all but disappeared pearl divers, a well as Khaliji hits by the likes of Abdullah al-Ruwaished and Areel Abou Bakr. Produced by Banning Eyre APWW

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Africans in the Persian Gulf is an episode from Afropop Worldwide by Afropop Worldwide.

This episode is 00:59:04 long.

This episode was published on May 8, 2026.

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