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Women’s History Month: Reconstructing Somalia - Women’s Voices
In this episode we take a rare look at Somalia’s formative, pre-civil war years (1960-90), which saw the birth of soomaalinimo - Somali patriotism. T…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Planet Afropop - Simpa Sonics: Neo-traditional dance music from Northern Ghana
From late night sessions of frenetic drumming, singing and trumpets and teenagers shaking their "waists" by the light of the moon, to hard-driving st…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Women's History Month: Four Women of the West
In West Africa, women are on the cutting edge of musical and cultural progress. This program looks at four singer/composers with roots in tradition a…
10 months ago
Women's History Month: Fairuz, A Woman for all Seasons
Fairuz is the most popular living singer throughout the Arabic-speaking world and an artist with no real counterpart in Europe or the Americas. Since…
10 months, 1 week ago
Planet Afropop - AfroPopup in Malawi, Rising Stars from the Warm Heart of Africa
In December 2024, Planet Afropop co-host Mukwae Wabei Siyolwe produced the first AfroPopup in at the Uka Café in Lilongwe, Malawi. Despite torrential…
10 months, 1 week ago
Black History Month: Kriolu in New England, The Cape Verdean-American Story
Of all contemporary Cape Verdeans, Cesaria Evora, "the Queen of the Morna" made the biggest impression internationally. However the first Cape Verdea…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Black History Month: A Brief History of Funk
Funk is the personal favorite of many music lovers. In this panoramic history of the grooviest of genres, we hear track after track of absolute boogi…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Black History Month: Shake it Fo Ya Hood, The History of New Orleans Bounce
New Orleans, Louisiana is home to some of America's greatest musical traditions, and plays an outsized influence on the evolution of everything from …
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Planet Afropop - Boom.Diwan: Arabian Pearl Diving Meets Afro-Cuba
Ghazi and Boom.Diwan with Arturo O’Farrill is about as unlikely a group as you could imagine. Ghazi Al-Mulaifi is a rocking guitar player and an ethn…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Women's History Month: Afropop's Tribute to Cesaria Evora
The beloved, Grammy Award winning singer Cesaria Evora from Cape Verde passed away in 2011 at the age of 70. We celebrate Cesaria's life and art with…
10 months, 4 weeks ago