Latest Fela Podcast Episodes
Ethiopia Part 2: Diaspora and Return
Afropop Worldwide - May 09, 2024 15:08 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsPart 2 of our Hip Deep in Ethiopia series features insights from Professor Kay Shelemay of Harvard University, author most recently of Sing and Sing On: Sentinal Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora (2022). This episode, originally aired in 2009, takes us into Ethiopian Dia...
Ethiopia Part 1: Empire and Revolution
Afropop Worldwide - May 07, 2024 15:44 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsEthiopia was the first Christian nation in Africa, and the only African country never to be colonized. With ethnomusicologist Kay Kaufman Shelemay and Ethiopian music scholar and compiler Francis Falceto as guests, this Hip Deep program explores the role of the Ethiopian church and monarchy in bu...
Amapiano To The World
Afropop Worldwide - May 02, 2024 15:08 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsSouth Africa is one of the biggest dance music nations, and now it seems like the whole world is dancing along to its amapiano (piano/yanos) beats, a genre that blends its kwaito roots with house, jazz and its signature log drum. Afropop Worldwide first explored amapiano’s origins and growing po...
218. Q&A Practical tools for Manifestation and Frictionless Action
Relaunch My Life Radio - April 30, 2024 18:09 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this month's Listener Q&A Juliet explains the science and practical elements to understanding manifestation. She draws upon NLP and quantum physics concepts as well as shadow work to explain how we are all creating our own versions of reality, and infact we are the sun in the center of our...
Planet Afropop - Gino Sitson: Cameroonian Renaissance Man
Afropop Worldwide - April 30, 2024 15:04 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsOn this episode of Planet Afropop, Georges Collinet interviews fellow Cameroonian Gino Sitson. Sitson is a maverick maestro who blends unique vocal techniques with sounds from classical instruments—cello, violin, double bass—with African traditional elements. You have to hear it to believe it. Yo...
Saving The Malawi Tapes
Afropop Worldwide - April 25, 2024 12:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsThe Malawi Broadcasting Corporation recorded a goldmine of local music in the 1960s and 70s, but the tapes were neglected and close to ruined when broadcaster Waliko Makhala raised the alarm. With help from the Norwegian embassy and Norwegian broadcaster Sigbjorn Nedland, digitization got underwa...
Thomas Mapfumo Live at SOB's in NYC
Afropop Worldwide - April 18, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsIn 1991, Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited made their second tour of the United States. It was a fascinating transitional moment in the band’s history. Mapfumo had recently added two musicians playing the metal-pronged, Shona mbira, enriching the band’s lineup of guitar, bass, drums, keyboa...
Planet Afropop - Rachid Taha: African Punk Ghost
Afropop Worldwide - April 16, 2024 14:43 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsIn this episode, producer Elodie Maillot in Paris reviews the career of mercurial Algerian-French singer, composer and activist Rachid Taha, who died in 2018. With remembrances from producers Steve Hillage, Justin Adams and others, the podcast brings to life a singular life and musical career. Ta...
Thomas Mapfumo - The War Years
Afropop Worldwide - April 11, 2024 15:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsThis Hip Deep edition explores the legendary early career of Thomas Mapfumo, a singer, composer and bandleader whose 1970s music set the stage for the birth of a new nation, Zimbabwe. Using rare, unreleased recordings, and recollections by Mapfumo, key band members, and prominent Zimbabweans who ...
Planet Afropop - ARB: Nigeria’s Alternative Reflective Beats
Afropop Worldwide - April 02, 2024 15:17 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsIn this episode, Planet Afropop’s Lagos correspondent Fay Fay profiles a unique multi-generational band on the Nigerian scene: Alternative Reflective Beats (ARB). True to their name, ARB's music embodies the vibrant rhythms of Afrobeat intertwined with a fusion of other genres. Their mission is t...
Women's History Month: Umm Kulthum - The Voice of Egypt
Afropop Worldwide - March 28, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsUmm Kulthum has been called the greatest singer in the Arabic speaking world in the 20th century. Born in 1904 the humble daughter of an Egyptian village imam, she went on to become a glamorous Cairo celebrity in her 20s, and soon after that, a cultural icon whose monthly live radio broadcasts br...
Women's History Month: Afropop Women Warriors
Afropop Worldwide - March 21, 2024 12:02 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsThis program focuses on four female artists whose music is full of challenging messages for a challenged world. Climate change, womens’ empowerment, police brutality, official corruption… All that and more in new work from Angelique Kidjo, Dobet Gnaore, Fatoumata Diaouara and Shungudzo, plus a di...
Planet Afropop - Singeli Jumps and Rumba Swings in Tanzania!
Afropop Worldwide - March 19, 2024 15:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsAfropop Worldwide took 24 adventurous listeners to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, and Zanzibar in February. In this episode, Dar music veteran and aficionado John Kitime takes us through highlights, including the frenetic and risqué singeli music-and-dance craze currently electrifying the country. We a...
Women's History Month: Four Women of the West
Afropop Worldwide - March 14, 2024 17:38 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsIn West Africa, women are on the cutting edge of musical and cultural progress. This program looks at four singer/composers with roots in tradition and unique ideas about how to keep them current in the fast-changing milieu of today’s African music. Mali’s Fatoumata Diawara keeps her focus on mes...
217. 3 NLP tools to help you make more impact TODAY
Relaunch My Life Radio - March 10, 2024 05:35 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this month's episode of Relaunch My Life Radio following the Dream Life Diary Format Juliet shares 3 powerful tools to shift your perspective to help you make more impact in your life - starting now. Dream - An update and learning from Juliet's Life Life - A NLP or Hypnotherapy coaching ...
Women's History Month: Cheikha Rimitti, Rebel Queen of Algerian Music
Afropop Worldwide - March 07, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsCheikha Rimitti was certainly a queen. For some, she was the queen of raï (pronounced RYE), which means “opinion" in Arabic. For others, she was the queen of freedom, an Algerian Statue of Liberty wielding the fire of independence, as she sang daringly and frankly about love, sexuality, poverty, ...
Planet Afropop - South Africa in the Green Room: Bongiziwe and Bakithi
Afropop Worldwide - March 05, 2024 18:44 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsBongiziwe Mabandla is a maverick South African singer-songwriter whose music draws on many of his country’s rich styles, but cannot be reduced to any of them. Along with his Mozambican producer Tiago Correira Paulo, he has developed a unique, keyboard-driven sound with deep, meditative textures. ...
Planet Afropop - South Africa in the Green Room: Bongeziwe and Bakithi
Afropop Worldwide - March 05, 2024 18:44 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsBongeziwe Mabandla is a maverick South African singer-songwriter whose music draws on many of his country’s rich styles, but cannot be reduced to any of them. Along with his Mozambican producer Tiago Correira Paulo, he has developed a unique, keyboard-driven sound with deep, meditative textures. ...
Women's History Month: Afropop Women of Note
Afropop Worldwide - February 29, 2024 15:12 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsTo kick off Women's History Month, DJ Kix returns with Georges Collinet to take us on a musical journey across Africa, showcasing some of the continent’s formidable women who are quickly rising in the industry and making their presence known. In this episode, we’ll hear from: top Namibian MC, Lio...
Black History Month: The African American String Music Tradition
Afropop Worldwide - February 22, 2024 15:48 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsThere’s been a lot of speculation about the chain of musical events that link the blues back to Africa. Most of that chain is unrecorded and shrouded in mystery. But there is one chapter, just before the blues, that we do know quite a lot about. That’s the history of African-American string bands...
Planet Afropop - Mas Carnaval in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe
Afropop Worldwide - February 20, 2024 16:58 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsThe season of Carnival (Carnaval), in Guadeloupe brings the unmistakable sounds of music from the local culture clubs to the streets like no other carnival in the world. Every Sunday from the new year to Ash Wednesday, The islanders take turns showing off their cultural traditions. Enslaved Afri...
Black History Month: The Black History of the Banjo
Afropop Worldwide - February 15, 2024 16:07 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsThis program traces the history of this most American of instruments from its ancestors in West Africa through the Caribbean and American South and into the present, as a new generation of Black women artists reclaim the banjo as their own. Rhiannon Giddens, Bassekou Kouyate, Bela Fleck and more ...
Black History Month: The Black History of Tap Dancing
Afropop Worldwide - February 08, 2024 13:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsFoundational for Broadway and the movies, intertwined with jazz, tap dancing is a Great American Art. Strap on your shoes and shuffle along as we trace the history of tap and celebrate the Black artists and innovators who built--and continue to build--this art form. From its murky origins melding...
Planet Afropop - Syli D’Or Winners And Artists For Aid
Afropop Worldwide - February 06, 2024 21:56 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsEvery winter, starting in February, the organizers of the annual Nuits D’Afrique festival put on a battle of the Afropop bands. Bands face off, three a night at Club Balatou, and the audience votes a winner for the night. Eventually, the field comes down to nine finalists, and that’s when we at A...
216. Consistency creates freedom
Relaunch My Life Radio - February 05, 2024 09:16 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome to the first episode of Relaunch My Life Radio for 2024! In this month's episode following the Dream Life Diary format Juliet shares an update from her life, a coaching tool to help you shift perspectives, and 3 powerful journalling prompts to help you inspire your inner writer. Vis...
Black History Month: The Ring and The Shout
Afropop Worldwide - February 01, 2024 13:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsThis Hip Deep episode presents the stunning radio premiere of "Oh, David," the traditional song of the annual Easter Rock in Winnsboro, Louisiana. The Easter Rock is in fact a surviving ringshout—the oldest known form of African American music—but it's about 600 miles west of the ringshout's hear...
Planet Afropop - Moh! Kouyate: A Conversation with a Global Griot
Afropop Worldwide - January 23, 2024 16:38 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsMoh Kouyate is a Guinean guitarist/singer/songwriter descending from a line of griots (jalis) in West Africa. As listeners heard in the Afropop Worldwide program Global Griots in France, he has lived in Paris since 2006, collaborating with a wide range of artists from genres far outside his tradi...
Episode 113: Entertainment
Life Lab - January 21, 2024 00:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsStories, plays, books, movies, games, sports, toys, hobbies... the list goes on. There are many things we seek provide us amusement. Is there a difference between passive and interactive forms? Are we seeking escape, inspiration, or something else? Join us as we discuss entertainment. ...
Calypso, Reggae and Jab-Jab Soca: Musical Resistance in Grenada
Afropop Worldwide - January 11, 2024 19:57 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsCalypso and reggae have been mainstays of Grenada’s musical culture, until the emergence of the distinctive Carnival-based offshoot known as jab-jab soca, and more recent hybrid forms embraced by a younger generation of musical practitioners. On this program, we explore how the island’s tempestuo...
Planet Afropop - A Conversation with Okwy Osadebe
Afropop Worldwide - January 09, 2024 15:16 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsOkwy Osadebe is the son of Nigerian Igbo highlife legend Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe. In this lively conversation with Georges Collinet and Eme Awa, of WOWD Radio in Takoma Park, we learn about the life, music and legacy of Okwy’s late father. We also learn about Okwy’s life in the United States,...