Afropop Worldwide Staging | Audio Programs

Hip Deep February 27, 2025

Diaspora Encounters: Kriolu in New England, The Cape Verdean-American Story

In this Hip Deep edition, Marlon Bishop and Marilyn Halter explore the Cape Verdean, creole experience in New England.

Hip Deep February 26, 2025

The Rise of Afro-Venezuelan Music in the Hugo Chavez Era

This Hip Deep edition tells the history of African influences in Venezuelan music.

Planet Afropop February 18, 2025

Planet Afropop: Boom.Diwan: Arabian Pearl Diving Meets Afro-Cuba

This podcast tells the story of Ghazi and Boom.Diwan with Arturo O’Farrill.

Hip Deep February 13, 2025

Shake It Fo Ya Hood: The History of New Orleans Bounce

For this Hip Deep edition, Afropop digs into the close-knit scene, talking to dancers, producers, MCs, and managers from over 30 years of bounce, all to explore the beat that drives New Orleans.

Hip Deep January 30, 2025

The Mighty Amazon

Hip Deep January 30, 2025

Hip Deep Ghana 1: Ebo Taylor and the Pioneers of Afro-Funk

Hip Deep January 23, 2025

Cairo - Hollywood of the Middle East

By the mid 20th century, Cairo had become the unrivaled center for music and film production in the Middle East. Producers, writers, composers, actors, musicians, star singers, and creators of every stripe flocked here to take part in the city's fervent, international, progressive artistic milieu.

Hip Deep January 9, 2025

A Tale of Two Rebellions: How Africans Helped Shape the Future of Islam

In this Hip Deep edition, Joseph Braude recounts the Zanj Rebellion and the origins of the Suni Shiite divide in Islam.

Planet Afropop January 7, 2025

Planet Afropop: Jo'burg Meets Detroit: Soweto Gospel Choir's History of House

Akshaj Turebylu triangulates the influences responsible for the irresistible, intercontinental, genre-bending, collaborative album called History of House.

Hip Deep January 2, 2025

The Zulu Factor

Planet Afropop December 24, 2024

Planet Afropop: 2024 Wrapup

Georges, Mukwae and Banning play music to wrap up a most unusual year, 2024.

Hip Deep December 19, 2024

Proving the Bubu Myth: Janka Nabay, War and Witchcraft in Sierra Leone

Every year on Sierra Leone’s Independence Day in late April, musicians and revelers descend upon Freetown from throughout the country.

Planet Afropop December 10, 2024

Planet Afropop: Celebrating Toumani Diabaté

Banning Eyre profiles and celebrates Malian kora player Toumani Diabaté in and episode of Planet Afropop.

Planet Afropop November 19, 2024

Planet Afropop: Breaking into Afrobeats: First Klaz and Kemuel

Fay Fay introduces us to two rising Afrobeats stars, First Klaz and Kemuel.

Planet Afropop November 5, 2024

Planet Afropop: Sia Tolno and the Afro-Dead Collective

This podcast tells the story of Guinean singer/composer Sia Tolno and the Afro Dead collective in Barcelona, Spain.

Hip Deep October 10, 2024

The Cumbia Diaspora: From Colombia to the World

In this Hip Deep edition, we find out how cumbia left Colombia in the ‘60s and ‘70s and traveled to other countries.

Planet Afropop October 8, 2024

Planet Afropop: Mokoomba in the House

Zimbabwe's Mokoomba creates a song to be remixed as Afro-House.

Planet Afropop September 24, 2024

Planet Afropop: Women of Tsapiky

This Planet Afropop episode tells the story of women in southwest Madagascar's tsapiky music.

Planet Afropop September 10, 2024

Planet Afropop: Afro Nation: Taking New Africa to the World

DJ Kix talks with organizers of the Afro Nation Festival 2024.

Hip Deep August 15, 2024

Live from Bongoland: The History of Tanzania's Music Economy

Hip Deep July 4, 2024

La Bamba: The Afro-Mexican Story

In this Hip Deep episode, we use music to explore that history as we take a road-trip across the country in search of sonic traces of Afro-Mexico.

Planet Afropop June 25, 2024

Planet Afropop: Season Finale with Noise Cans and the Swanky Kitchen Band

Planet Afropop wraps up Season 1 with Noise Cans, The Swanky Kitchen Band and top picks in new releases

Hip Deep June 20, 2024

Mbalax Fever

This Hip Deep program tells the story of Senegal's mbalax music.

Planet Afropop June 11, 2024

The Garifuna Collective: They Came Before Columbus

Producer Muwkae Wabei Siyolwe speaks with the Garifuna Collective and Dr. Gwen Nunez Gonzales, a Garifuna language matriarch in Belize, who shares stories of resilience and cultural citizenship.

Hip Deep May 30, 2024

East African Taarab

Kelley Askew talks us through the history of East African Taarab music.

Hip Deep May 9, 2024

Ethiopia 2: Diaspora and Return

This Hip Deep program describes the Ethiopian musical diaspora around the world.

Hip Deep May 7, 2024

Ethiopia Part 1: Empire and Revolution

This Hip Deep program explores the role of the Ethiopian church and monarchy in building the country's unique brassy pop music.

Planet Afropop April 30, 2024

Planet Afropop: Gino Sitson: Cameroonian Renaissance Man

On this episode of Planet Afropop, Georges Collinet interviews fellow Cameroonian Gino Sitson. Sitson is a maverick maestro who blends unique vocal techniques with sounds from classical instruments—cello, violin, double bass—with African traditional elements.

Planet Afropop April 16, 2024

Planet Afropop - Rachid Taha: African Punk Ghost

In this episode, producer Elodie Maillot in Paris reviews the career of mercurial Algerian-French singer, composer and activist Rachid Taha, who died in 2018.

Hip Deep April 11, 2024

Thomas Mapfumo 1: The War Years

Part 1 of Afropop Worldwide's HIp Deep audio biography of Thomas Mapfumo focuses on his upbringing, musical education and the bands that lead up to the Blacks Unlimited. These are the war years, when Zimbabwe was fighting to throw off the burden of the racist Southern Rhodesian regime. This episode documents the birth of "chimurenga" music in the voices of those who made that history, many of whom have now joined the ancestors. Produced by Banning Eyre.