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Afropop Worldwide

Afropop Worldwide

Afropop worldwide is your source for music and stories from the African planet. We explore the the world through sound, from the ancient past to the cutting edge present, combining music, history, and culture. Distributed by PRI.

Afropop Worldwide

521 episodesEN

Show overview

Afropop Worldwide has been publishing since 2016, and across the 10 years since has built a catalogue of 521 episodes. That works out to roughly 470 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 59 min and 59 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Music show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 4 days ago, with 35 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2024, with 72 episodes published.

Episodes
521
Running
2016–2026 · 10y
Median length
59 min
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

Afropop Worldwide is an internationally syndicated weekly radio series, online guide to African and world music, and an international music archive, that has introduced American listeners to the music cultures of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean since 1988. Our radio program is hosted by Georges Collinet from Cameroon, the radio series is distributed by Public Radio International to 110 stations in the U.S., via XM satellite radio, in Africa via and Europe via Radio Multikulti.

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