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Hip Deep Portrait Of King Sunny Ade
Hip Deep Portrait Of King Sunny Ade
[APWW PGM #468] [Originally aired in 2005]King Sunny Adé was, in many ways, the inspiration for what would become Afropo... Read more
2 Jul 2015
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Ranked #2
Sierra Leone: Celebration, War, And Healing
Sierra Leone: Celebration, War, And Healing
[APWW PGM #552] [Originally aired in 2008]While Sierra Leone is currently in the news for the horrific outbreak of Ebola... Read more
16 Feb 2015
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The Cumbia Diaspora - From Colombia to the World
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Move over salsa and merengue–cumbia is the most popular music in Latin America. Today, cumbia is played from the borderl... Read more
11 Jul 2019
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Ranked #4
Africa Now!
Africa Now!
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17 Sep 2015
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Ranked #5
Afro-Symphonic Folk: From the Coasts of Africa to the San Francisco Bay
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The San Francisco Bay Area is a unique cultural space that has given birth to some of the most iconic countercultural Am... Read more
3 Oct 2017
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African Music at the Crossroads
African Music at the Crossroads
Afropop producer Banning Eyre takes us on a surprise-filled tour of his 30-some years of covering African music. Through... Read more
15 Jun 2017
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A Brief History of Funk
A Brief History of Funk
Funk is a perennial favorite. In this panoramic history of the grooviest of genres, we hear track after track of absolut... Read more
23 Nov 2017
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Luiz Gonzaga The King of Baiao
Luiz Gonzaga The King of Baiao
Sweet accordion riffs, the steady twang of the triangle, and the off-beat pounding of the zabumba drum make forro a favo... Read more
3 Oct 2019
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Ranked #9
Lagos and the Rise of Nigerian Afrobeats
Lagos and the Rise of Nigerian Afrobeats
Lagos and the Rise of Nigerian AfrobeatsHeavy, percussive club beats with irresistible hooks and street-wise raps in Yor... Read more
10 May 2018
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Juju Jubilee
Juju Jubilee
[APWW PGM #317] [Originally aired in 1998]Juju maestro Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey recently made a rare U.S. tour in t... Read more
10 Sep 2015
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Ranked #11
An Island, Divided
An Island, Divided
The island of Hispaniola, located in the western Caribbean, is divided in two by an invisible line that snakes down its ... Read more
24 Aug 2017
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Ancient Text Messages: Batá Drums in a Changing World
Ancient Text Messages: Batá Drums in a Changing World
#724Produced by Ned Subletteair date 2/11/2016In Africa, drums don't only play rhythms, they send messages. “Ancient Tex... Read more
11 Feb 2016
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Afropop Exclusive Mixtape- Palenque Records
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Lucas Silva, the man behind the always amazing Palenque Records, dropped this dynamite mix of Colombian favorites new, o... Read more
18 Mar 2015
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Ranked #14
Pedras, Melos, and Radiola - Brazilian Reggae in Sao Luis do Maranhao
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São Luís do Maranhão is one of the poorest and most ethnically-diverse cities in Brazil. In this old slave port, located... Read more
23 May 2019
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Hip Deep Angola part 1: Music and Nation in Luanda
Hip Deep Angola part 1: Music and Nation in Luanda
We explore the role music played in the creation of a uniquely Angolan consciousness as the country struggled toward ind... Read more
2 Nov 2017
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Here Comes 2020
Here Comes 2020
While others look back on 2019 and the decade of the 2010s, Georges Collinet and Banning Eyre choose instead to look ahe... Read more
19 Dec 2019
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Africa and the Blues
Africa and the Blues
When this episode first aired, the recent death of Malian guitar legend Ali Farka Touré inspired a new round of speculat... Read more
15 Feb 2018
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