Afropop Worldwide Staging | Audio Programs

Hip Deep March 19, 2026

Hip Deep in Mali: Growing Into Music in 21st Century Bamako

Hip Deep February 19, 2026

Black History Month 2026: Midwest Electric: The Story of Chicago House and Detroit Techno

Hip Deep January 29, 2026

Sierra Leone: Celebration, War, and Healing

Hip Deep January 15, 2026

The French Caribbean--Cosmopolitan, Colonial, Complicated

Hip Deep January 1, 2026

Jewish Communities of Sub-Saharan Africa

Hip Deep December 18, 2025

Spiritual Journeys: Tarab: The Art of Ecstasy in Arab Music

Explore the rich traditions of Tarab in Arab music, its emotional ecstasy, and cultural values, through the insights of A.J. Racy, a renowned ethnomusicologist, and the artistry of legendary Tarab singers like Umm Kulthum, set against the backdrop of Aleppo's Aleppian Tarab tradition and Syrian music culture.

Hip Deep December 11, 2025

Luiz Gonzaga: The King of Baião

Hip Deep December 4, 2025

Hip Deep In the Niger Delta

Hip Deep August 28, 2025

Islam and Music: From Prohibition to the Science of Ecstasy

From early Baghdad to Qawwali and Iraqi maqam, Joseph Braude and Islamic scholars explore how Islam shapes music across the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.

Hip Deep August 21, 2025

The Music of Black Peru: Cultural Identity in the Black Pacific

This Hip Deep edition explores the sonically vibrant realm of Afro-Peruvian music, a young genre identification that has flourished since the 1950s and has now produced artists of international renown, such as singer Susana Baca, and the black folkloric company Peru Negro.

Hip Deep July 31, 2025

The Story of Bembeya Jazz

Planet Afropop July 17, 2025

Planet Afropop: Chimurenga Legacy: Thomas Mapfumo and Mary Anibal

Banning Eyre meets Thomas Mapfumo at home and introduces Mary Anibal.

Hip Deep July 10, 2025

Nollywood: Nigeria's Mirror

Planet Afropop July 8, 2025

Planet Afropop: The Other Sound of Kinshasa

Nathaniel Braddock digs into the alternative music scene in Kinshasa, Congo.

Planet Afropop June 24, 2025

Planet Afropop: Breaking into Afrobeats: Homegrown, Selfmade

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: Madalitso! From Banjo Boys to Men and Acoustic Salif

Planet Afropop profiles Madalitso Band from Malawi, and interviews Salif Keita.

Hip Deep May 29, 2025

Afro-Dominicana: The Other Dominican Republic

This week, Afropop revisits the home of styles such as merengue and bachata, but this time we’ll be looking towards the most deeply African side of Dominican music—little known outside of the island.

Hip Deep May 15, 2025

Afro-Lisbon and the Lusophone Atlantic: Dancing Toward the Future

On this Hip Deep edition, we take you on a journey to Lisbon, a city facing both the sea and 600 years of its own history.

Planet Afropop May 13, 2025

Planet Afropop: African Beatmakers 2-Dami TNT

Banning Eyre wraps up his two-part feature on African Beatmakers, with a feature on Dami TNT from Nigeria.

Hip Deep May 8, 2025

Seize the Dance: The BaAka of Central Africa

This program will initiate listeners into one of the most enchanting and mysterious musical practices in Africa, BaAka people music.

Hip Deep May 1, 2025

Hip Deep in Northern Nigeria

Afropop visits Kano in Northern Nigeria to meet local nanaye artists and meet young Hausa hip-hop artists.

Hip Deep April 17, 2025

African Sounds of the Indian Subcontinent

In this Hip Deep program, Afropop explores musical connections between Africa and India.

Hip Deep April 16, 2025

Spiritual Journeys: Traveling Spirit Masters, The Gnawa of Morocco

This program explores the Gnawa music and tradition in Morocco with author and scholar Deborah Kapchan.

Planet Afropop April 15, 2025

Planet Afropop: Somali DJs in America and Songhoy Blues

Akshaj Turebylu talks to Somali deejays in Minnesota and to Songhoy Blues about their new album, Heritage.

Hip Deep April 10, 2025

A Hip Deep Portrait of King Sunny Ade

Hip Deep April 3, 2025

Africans in the Arabian (Persian) Gulf

In this Hip Deep edition, Joseph Braude reports on the lives, legacy and music of Africans in Gulf States, Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

Hip Deep March 20, 2025

Women's History Month: Fairuz, A Woman for all Seasons

Planet Afropop March 18, 2025

Planet Afropop: Simpa Sonics: Neo-traditional dance music from Northern Ghana

Morgan Greenstreet explores Fra Fra Simpa music in Tamale, Ghana.

Hip Deep March 13, 2025

Reconstructing Somalia: Love Songs at the Birth of a Nation

This program offers a rare musical portrait of Somalia’s formative, pre-civil war years (1960-90). In a rising mood of patriotism and hope, Somalis sought to forge a culturally authentic, but also modern, national identity

Planet Afropop March 4, 2025

Planet Afropop: AfroPopup in Malawi: Rising Stars from the Warm Heart of Africa

Mukwae Wabei Siyolwe reports on the first AfroPopup in Malawi.