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Nuits D'Afrique 2022
In its 36th year, the Nuits d’Afrique festival in Montreal pulled out all the stops to meet the expectations of an audience that was hungry to see an…
3 years, 4 months ago
Making Waves: A Congolese Guitarist Tests His Range
When Siama Matazungidi first heard soukous music on the radio in Kinshasa, Congo, it was as if the keys to a technicolor world of sound had landed in…
3 years, 5 months ago
Changui!
Changüí is a little understood, loose and lively, community-based music of eastern Cuba. In this program we sample recordings from the 2021 box set C…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Zim Dancehall Story
Inspired by Jamaica’s dancehall music from the 90s and early 2000s, Zimbabwean dancehall music (Zimdancehall) started out as an underground subcultur…
3 years, 5 months ago
858 Oromo Music: Historical Memory and Competing Visions in Ethiopia
858 Oromo Music: Historical Memory and Competing Visions in Ethiopia by Afropop Worldwide
3 years, 5 months ago
The Cavemen: Highlife in the Age of Afrobeats
In the age of slick, international Afrobeats music, and especially its epicenter, Lagos, Nigeria, one would not expect to find a group of 20-somethin…
3 years, 5 months ago
Black To The Future
Sometimes music can take you to places you've never imagined! That’s what Afrofuturism does.… Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic that explores the …
3 years, 5 months ago
The Rise of Hip-Hop in Malawi
As in so many African countries, Malawian hip-hop evolved from a marginalized and often disparaged form of music, to an underground sensation, to a m…
3 years, 6 months ago
Toronto's African Scene
Toronto is Canada’s most cosmopolitan city--“like New York but mellower” in the words of Kofi Akah, son of the Ghanaian highlife legend Jewel Akah. K…
3 years, 6 months ago
Dakar Muse
"Dakar Muse" takes us to one of the most exciting musical cities in Africa. We'll meet young stars on the Mbalax scene, Senegal's national music, inc…
3 years, 6 months ago