Africa: Baaba Maal, Just Being
[Afropop] 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 soundtrack to both Black Pantherfilms–he never fails to amaz…
Africa: Moonlight Benjamin Rolls Out New Album Wayo
[Afropop] 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 Haitian roots music with the blare and bravado on of electric…
Mauritius: Discography – Rock ‘N’ Roll Pioneer Maurice Rocco On Film
[Afropop] 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 continuum with no beginning or end and rock ‘n’ roll was already th…
Tanzania: Afropop in Tanzania Blog – Third Dispatch: 2/15/2023
[Afropop] 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 edition in 2004 and we’re very excited to return. We had a prev…
Tanzania: Afropop in Tanzania Blog – Second Dispatch (2/8/23)
[Afropop] From Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, this is dispatch number two, and the beat goes on! We have enjoyed and recorded several more bands including the awesome Msondo Music Band, founded in 1964. That makes this the oldest continuously running band in…
Tanzania: Afropop in Tanzania Blog – First Dispatch: 2/3/2023
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Tanzania: Afropop Worldwide Heads for Tanzania!
[Afropop] Afropop’s Banning Eyre and I are very excited to return this Monday to Tanzania and Zanzibar for a reporting trip. The centerpiece of our work will be covering the pan-African Sauti za Busara Festival (Swahili Sounds of Wisdom) at the open-ai…
South Africa: Amapiano DJ Mixers
[Afropop] Amapiano is undisputedly the most trending club music on the planet in 2023. It is dance music not needing a playlist as the genre is a playlist. The music and the mix are created through samples and collaborations with deejays, vocalists, an…
Africa: African Cinema – No Cinderella Ending For These Black Women
[Afropop] It’s an arithmetic fact that the immigrant workforce who travel from developing countries into developed countries power their economies. What a shame, then, that populist politicians demonize their immigrant neighbors when they are so indisp…
Africa: Creative Industries Flourish At Us Africa Leaders Summit
[Afropop] Afropop Worldwide’s executive producer Sean Barlow received hard to get Secret Service vetted media credentials to cover the historic, just concluded U.S. Africa Leaders Summit in Washington D.C.President Joe Biden hosted dozens of African he…