Africa: Etienne Sevet - the Many Adventures of the Bongo Hop

One of this year's headliners at the International Festival de Nuits Afrique in Montreal this summer was The Bongo Hop. Read more »

Africa: Stephen Marley - Old Soul and Bob Marley: Africa Unite

Bob Marley is an enduring icon of popular music. But even icons need refreshing from time to time, and two recent releases add depth and luster to the ongoing Marley legacy.… Read more »

Africa: Africa Unite

Africa Unite was probably inevitable. In the decade-plus that Afrobeats has been on the rise worldwide, outreach and collaboration with established genres, mostly hip-hop and… Read more »

Africa: Afropop Top Videos - Stephen Marley, Bombino, Las Hijas Del Rap

The awesomely creative and inspiring videos just keep coming. Here are six more additions to Afropop's Top Videos YouTube playlist, once again spanning the endless diversity of… Read more »

Africa: Instagram Message From Bonnie Raitt to Afropop Worldwide

Three days ago Bonnie Raitt sent her fans a heartwarming message about her experience traveling to Mali in 2000 with Afropop Wordlwide. Check it out! Read more »

Africa: Sobs Celebrates 40 Years

Sean participated this week in the party hearty celebration of the 40th anniversary of SOB's (Sounds of Brazil), the legendary nightclub in New York City founded by Larry Gold. Read more »

Africa: Simon Shaheen Discusses the History and Art of the Oud

In preparing the program "Journeys With the Oud," Afropop's Banning Eyre visited Palestinian composer Simon Shaheen, an oud and violin virtuoso. They met in Shaheen's Brooklyn… Read more »

Africa: Nuits d'Afrique Rides Again With Yemi Alade, SONA Jobarteh, Dicko Fils and Much More!

The 37th edition of the Nuits D'Afrique festival in Montreal is a wrap. Once again, the city hosted twelve days of live music from Africa and the diaspora, featuring many of the… Read more »

Africa: 2023 Montreal International Jazz Festival

The Festival International de Jazz de Montreal (FIJM) returned in its 43rd edition in full swing (and shuffle, backbeat, Afrobeat, and even ¾ time). It's been three years… Read more »

Africa: Oumou Sangare and Vox Sambou At Celebrate Brooklyn

On Friday, July 14, bookended between well-timed tropical downpours, a remarkable concert went down at Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park. Oumouy Sangare, pioneer of Mali's… Read more »

Africa: More Afropop Top Videos - Teni, Mokoomba, Blick Bassy, Dub Inc, Sophie Lukacs

Here are five new Top Afropop videos to get you through another ultra-hot 2023 July weekend. We start off with something on the cool side. Cameroonian maverick Blick Bassy has a… Read more »

Africa: Afropop Closeup Podcast Season 8 Begins July 4

As podcast subscribers and listeners know, the Afropop Closeup podcast series, hosted by individual producers, is a place where we go beyond the music into politics, religion,… Read more »

Africa: The Sierra Nevada World Music Festival Rides Again

More than a few reggae fans thought they'd never see another edition of the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, the Northern California event, which for 25 editions had become… Read more »

Africa: Rumba By the Connecticut River

It started with an email from Pastor Steven Jungkiet of the Old Lyme Congregational Church in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Steven was inviting us to two weekend events featuring… Read more »

Africa: New Afropop Top Videos - June 12

We've just added eleven new videos to the Afropop Top Video Playlist on YouTube. As usual, some amazing music and visuals here. There's new work by Siselabonga of South Africa,… Read more »

Africa: Gotopo's Afro-Indigenous Future Vision

Gotopo is an Afro-Venezuelan artist living in Berlin. She was born in Caracas and began her formal musical training in Barquisimeto, home of a renowned musical conservatory. She… Read more »

Africa: Afropop Top Videos - Gotopo, Toumani and Kayhan, Eliades Ochoa, and More!

Fantastic new videos keep flooding in at Afropop Central. Here's a new set to brighten your weekend. Read more »

Africa: Remembering Harry Belafonte

It is impossible to overstate the enormity of the loss. Harry Belafonte has been an icon of global entertainment and social activism for longer than most of us have been alive. His… Read more »

Africa: Afropop Worldwide Rivers Project At the Kennedy Center

Last year, when the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, asked Afropop Worldwide to curate and produce an evening of music with the theme of African rivers, it didn't take long to… Read more »

Africa: Georges Collinet and Banning Eyre Host Afropop the African Rivers Project At the Kennedy Center

Final rehearsals with the newly coined Niger River Ensemble are underway for the bid show tomorrow at the Eisenhower Theater, The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.. The evening of… Read more »

Africa: Can You Bring It - Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters Kicks Off Afropop: the Ultimate Cultural Exchange

This season marks the 15th anniversary of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange, a documentary series dedicated to spotlighting the stories and lives of people from all corners… Read more »

Africa: Baaba Maal, Just Being

Baaba Maal is an icon of African music. Alone with his lifelong friend and accompanist Mansour Seck, with his band Dande Lenol, or in any number of collaborations--including in the… Read more »

Africa: Afropop Top Videos - Requiem for David Lindley, Ayra Starr and More!

It's been awhile since we added new videos to our Afropop Top Videos playlist. Three weeks in Tanzania was rather distracting! But we're back with six new entries. Of particular… Read more »

Africa: Moonlight Benjamin Rolls Out New Album Wayo

Moonlight Benjamin is a Haitian-born singer/songwriter/bandleader living in France since 2002. Her music is unique on the Haitian diaspora scene. She fuses the gut-level passion of… Read more »

Africa: January in New York City - Globalfest 2023 and More!

January in New York City: globalFEST 2023 and more! Read more »