Afropop Worldwide

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  • Location: Brooklyn, New York

"Afropop Worldwide" is America's first and longest-lived weekly program on the music of Africa and the African Diaspora.

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Special episodes from Peabody Award-winning weekly program Afropop Worldwide, focusing on music from Africa and the African diaspora.

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"Afropop Worldwide" is America's first and longest-lived weekly program on the music of Africa and the African Diaspora. NOTE: This program is available to PRI affiliates. For more information please email memberships@prx.org.

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Caption: Orchestra Baobab
Senegal’s Orchestra Baobab turned 50 in 2020. We celebrate by looking back at their origins in a Dakar nightclub, their rise, break-up and second l...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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In this program, we hear the latest from the Nigerian music scene - Naija Pop, Afrobeats, Afropop - and sample action on the Afrobeat and Alté scene.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Sam Mangwana, Rumba Music
In this episode, we chat with a living legend - Sam Mangwana.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Papa Wemba
In this episode we look back on the iconic career of Papa Wemba, drawing on some 20 years of interviews with the artist, and insights from Congoles...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
This Hip Deep program, originally broadcast in 2005, is being repeated in memoriam the pathbreaking historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (1929-2022), who...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
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This program explores some of the complex and shifting dynamics of neocolonialism, cultural ownership and audience in the African vinyl market.

  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Maytals debut LP
Toots Hibbert was a titan of Jamaican popular music. This episode is an homage to Toots, whose incredible career only ended when he tragically died...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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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 trou...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
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In this episode, we sample a wide range of kora music, and hear tales of its remarkable global journey.

  • Added: Sep 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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On a visit to the U.S. Virgin Islands in winter 2018, we took the pulse of the national music of St. Croix – quelbe.

  • Added: Sep 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00