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Mande Meets Mbalax in Dakar
Afropop returns to Dakar, Senegal to catch up with the latest in that country's dominant music style, the bracing, dynamic genre known as mbalax. We'…
6 years, 11 months ago
Cuts From the Crypt 4 - Zona Libre
The DJ crew Zona Libre take a break from throwing genre-defying parties and producing their own live events and podcasts to team up with Afropop for …
6 years, 11 months ago
Time Travel Through Afro-Paris
Since at least the 1980s, when this program first aired, Paris has been one of the most important incubators of African music on the planet. That’s w…
6 years, 11 months ago
Crate Diggers and Remixers
APWW #636 A vast, new world of DJs, record collectors and producers are going to far reaches of the Earth to find forgotten records and new styles of…
6 years, 11 months ago
What's New at WOMEX?
The annual WOMEX gathering is a feast for the eyes and ears. At the 2018 edition in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, over 300 artists performed in 60 offici…
7 years ago
Hip Deep in Lebanon, Part 2 -
As the Ottoman Empire waned in the late 19th century, there was scarcity, economic stress, and political oppression in Lebanon. The once lucrative si…
7 years ago
WOMEX Radio 2018
The 2018 edition of the world music exposition WOMEX went down in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands with 300 artists and 2700 delegates…
7 years, 1 month ago
Stocking Stuffers 2018
APWW #794 We’re hopeless at making Top-10 lists--or even top-40s—so you’ll have to settle for this: a whole hour of some of our favorite tunes of 201…
7 years, 1 month ago
The Best of Afropop Closeup Season 3
We just wrapped up our third season of our podcast series Afropop Closeups, and it may have been the best season yet. Afropop producers traveled fro…
7 years, 1 month ago
Sounds Like Brooklyn
712 Sounds Like Brooklyn At Afropop, we have gone far and wide, from Brazil to England to Madagascar to Egypt, tracking down incredible music to brin…
7 years, 2 months ago