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…
Africa: Cumbe Center for African and Diaspora Dance in Brooklyn Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary
[Afropop] Afropop Wordwide’s executive producer, Sean Barlow, recently participated in Fet Iajwa, the 10thanniversary celebration of the Cumbe Center for African and Diaspora Dance in the heart of Bed Sty, Brooklyn (the setting of Spike Lee’s breakthro…
South Africa: Pilani Bubu – Reclaiming and Reinventing Folklore
[Afropop] If you wanted one word to describe South Africa’s Pilani Bubu, the word might be “vibrant.” Bubu has a vibrancy when you see her, when you hear her sing, or even just talk. At the opening gathering of this year’s WOMEX conference, held in Lis…
Tanzania: Sauti Za Busara Festival in Zanzibar – Vision for February 2023
[Afropop] Afropop Worldwide’s executive producer Sean Barlow recently interviewed Yusuf Mahmoud, the creator and director of Zanzibar’s acclaimed Sauti za Busara (Swahili Sounds of Wisdom), East Africa’s premier music festival. Yusuf talked about the s…