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 »

Mozambique: The Sound of Masks Reveals Tiago Correia-Paulo - Mozambican Composer and Music Producer

The 15th season of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange, the documentary series of vibrant stories from across the African diaspora from Black Public Media and WGBH's WORLD… 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 »

Congo-Kinshasa: Congo Day in New York City - Lokassa and Kokoko

The death of veteran Congolese guitarist Lokassa Ya M'Bongo in March sent shockwaves through the global Congolese music community, perhaps especially in the New York City area,… Read more »

Mali: Nick Gold On Ali Farka Toure's Posthumous Release, Voyageur

When I reached Nick Gold, the creator of World Circuit records, by Zoom in London, he had recently returned from a trip to Mali and Senegal, his first visit there in years. He… 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 »

South Africa: The Rebirth of Jonathan Butler - New Album Ubuntu

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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 »

Cote d'Ivoire: Afro-Country - From Abidjan to Nashville With Peter One

This week's Afropop Worldwide program From Nashville to Nairobi: A History of Country Music in Kenya tells the remarkable story of Country and Western music's enduring hold on… Read more »

Mali: Tamikrest's Journey From Kidal to the World

At GlobalFEST 2023 in New York City, we had the chance to hear one of the great bands of modern Tuareg music, sometimes called assuf (sadness) or ichumar (derived from the French… 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 »

Benin: Angelique Kidjo Wins 2023 Polar Music Award

Well, she's done it again! Another unprecedented honour for the genre-bending diva of Benin, France and Brooklyn, the 21st century's Mama Africa, Angelique Kidjo. 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 »

Cameroon: New Single 'Hola Me' By Blick Bassy From New Album 'Madíbá'

In recognition of World Water Day Blick Bassy announces the release details for his new album, 'Madíbá', due out on May 26, 2023 via InFiné (Sabrina… Read more »

Malawi: Saving the Malawi Tapes Feature

There was a goldmine inside a building in Malawi, but it lay covered in dust and neglected. Not many seemed aware of the riches that lay in disarray inside MBC, the Malawi… Read more »

Malawi: Keturah - a New Voice From Malawi

This week's Afropop program focuses on Malawi, a country currently reeling from the wrath of tropical cyclone Freddy. Malawi has been scarce on the international music scene. The… Read more »

Guinea: Sylvain Leroux Visits L'ecole Fula Flute in Guinea

Sylvain Leroux is a New York-based musician and bandleader who plays multiple instruments but specializes in the Fula flute of Guinea. He's been traveling to that West African… Read more »

Togo: Dogo Du Togo Puts Togolese Music On the Map

Massama Dogo--A.K.A. Dogo du Togo--is a Togolese singer/songwriter/bandleader who has lived between the Washington D.C. area and his birthplace in Lomé, Togo since 2000. His… 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 »

Nigeria: Ado Gwanja Stirs the Pot in Kano With 'Warr'

When we visited Kano in northern Nigeria, in 2017, we interviewed scholar and culture aficionado Abdalla Uba Adamu,officially professor of Science Education and Mass Communication… 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 »

Congo-Kinshasa: Nkumu Katalay Previews March 1 Show At NYC's Mercury Lounge

Nkumu Katalay is a Kinshasa-born multi-instrumentalist and bandleader based in New York City. He leads one of the only working Congolese-oriented bands in the eastern U.S., and… Read more »

Mauritius: Discography - Rock 'N' Roll Pioneer Maurice Rocco On Film

Every month is Black History Month at Afropop and in celebration of February we are taking a deep dive into rock 'n' roll´s DNA in the form of Maurice Rocco. Black music is a… Read more »

Tanzania: Afropop in Tanzania Blog - Third Dispatch: 2/15/2023

We arrived in Stone Town, Zanzibar the night before the opening on our tour focus, the 20th edition of the Sauti za Busara Swahili Sounds of Wisdom Festival. We covered the first… Read more »

Mali: Ali Farka Touré´s "Cherie" Featuring Oumou Sangaré Debuts

Voyageur, the new album from the legendary African guitarist and singer Ali Farka Touré, is out March 10 on World Circuit Records. In anticipation of the forthcoming record… Read more »