Malawi: Keturah Brings Malawi Roots to the World Stage

Keturah is a young singer from Malawi with a cherry-sweet voice and an easy gift for songwriting. Her journey from a small village to a Los Angeles recording studio, where she… Read more »

South Africa: The South African Bongeziwe Experience in Mexico

There are few artists who can manifest magic by being in the right place, at the right time, with the right people: that was the Bongeziwe experience in Mexico. Read more »

South Africa: South African Bongeziwe Mabandla Releases Fourth Studio Album, Amaxesha

The whole Bongeziwe experience is conceptual in nature in the vein of The Miseducation of Lauren Hill, from an artist he is deeply inspired by. However Bongeziwe is a completely… 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 »

Zimbabwe: Bantu Spaceship Remakes Zimbabwean Roots Pop

Bantu Spaceship is a new act out of Harare, Zimbabwe, an Afro-futuristic project with deep ties in the past of the country's popular music. Producer Joshua Madalitso Chiundiza cut… Read more »

Mali: Tinariwen to Release New Album May 19 and Launch Tour May 27

In 2022, Mali's pioneering Tuareg rock band, Tinariwen, had to cancel their 20-date North American tour at the last moment due to visa issues. After more than a month of effort,… 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 »

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 »