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Voice of the Leopard
Jun 18, 2026
Unknown duration
Samba, Forro, Candomble, Tropicalia: The Sounds of Brazilian Artists in the US
Jun 11, 2026
59m 04s
A Spiritual Journey to Mbanza Congo
Jun 7, 2026
59m 04s
Music and the Story of Haiti: From Vodou to Compas to Racine to Rara and Beyond
May 30, 2026
59m 04s
Hip Deep Angola Part 1: Music and Nation in Luanda
May 21, 2026
59m 04s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/18/26 | ![]() Voice of the Leopard | The leopard cult of Ekpe in Calabar, in present-day Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon, has one of the most unique performance traditions in all of Africa - a complex theatrical tradition, referred to in calabar English as "play," which encompasses a cycle of sacred dramas that takes many years to execute. The music of this society is almost completely unknown outside the region, because it was not recorded until the 1980s. This program will feature Calabar-themed recordings by artists including Sexteto Habanero, Chano Pozo, Arsenio Rodriguez, and Los Munequitos de Matanzas. Dr. Ivor Miller, the only scholar who has both penetrated the Abaku society and visited the motherland in Calabar, and promoted the first-ever re-encounter between the two traditions, will play some of this powerful music and tell stories of this fascinating culture. Hip Deep by Ned Sublette (originally aired 2007) APWW #534 | — | ||||||
| 6/11/26 | ![]() Samba, Forro, Candomble, Tropicalia: The Sounds of Brazilian Artists in the US✨ | Brazilian musicimmigrant artists+5 | — | Forro in the Dark | — | Brazilian musicsamba+5 | — | 59m 04s | |
| 6/7/26 | ![]() A Spiritual Journey to Mbanza Congo✨ | Kongo empiretraditional healing+4 | Dr. Bárbaro Martínez Ruiz | University of Southern California | Mbanza-KongoAngola+3 | Mbanza-KongoKongo empire+5 | — | 59m 04s | |
| 5/30/26 | ![]() Music and the Story of Haiti: From Vodou to Compas to Racine to Rara and Beyond✨ | Haitian musicvodou+5 | Elizabeth McAlisterHolly Nicolas | Wesleyan Universityvodou+3 | HaitiDahomey | Haitimusic+8 | — | 59m 04s | |
| 5/21/26 | ![]() Hip Deep Angola Part 1: Music and Nation in Luanda✨ | Angolan musicindependence+3 | Ned SubletteDr. Marissa Moorman | Ngola RitmosIntonations: A Social History of Music in Luanda, Angola from 1945 to Recent Times | AngolaLuanda | Angolamusic+6 | — | 59m 04s | |
| 5/13/26 | ![]() A Tale of Two Rebellions - Zanj, Fatamid✨ | Islamic historymilitary campaigns+3 | — | APWW #535 | — | Islamic historyZanj+6 | — | 59m 04s | |
| 5/8/26 | ![]() Africans in the Persian Gulf✨ | Persian Gulf musicKhaliji+3 | Joseph Braude | Afropop WorldwideKhaliji | BahrainKuwait+1 | KhalijiPersian Gulf+7 | — | 59m 04s | |
| 4/30/26 | ![]() Celebrating Toumani Diabaté✨ | Toumani Diabatékora music+3 | — | Afropop Worldwide | Bamako | Toumani Diabatékora+5 | — | 59m 04s | |
| 4/23/26 | ![]() The Tropical Soul of Jorge Ben Jor✨ | Jorge Ben JorTropicália+3 | Jorge Ben Jor | Afropop WorldwideUniversity of North Carolina Press+1 | — | Jorge Ben JorTropicália+5 | — | 59m 04s | |
| 4/16/26 | ![]() Dakar Dancing and Casamance Roots, Afropop Returns to Senegal✨ | Dakar nightlifetraditional music+4 | — | Afropop Worldwide | DakarCasamance | DakarCasamance+7 | — | 59m 04s | |
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| 4/10/26 | ![]() The Art of Improvisation, Part 2✨ | musical improvisationjazz+4 | — | The Art of Improvisation, Part 2 | Zimbabwe | improvisationjazz+5 | — | 59m 04s | |
| 4/2/26 | ![]() The Art of Improvisation, Part 1✨ | musical improvisationbebop+5 | — | UCLAWesleyan University+2 | — | improvisationbebop+5 | — | 59m 04s | |
| 3/26/26 | ![]() Women's History Month: Umm Kulthum, The Voice of Egypt✨ | Umm KulthumEgyptian music+3 | Virginia Danielson | Afropop Worldwide | — | Umm KulthumEgypt+3 | — | 59m 04s | |
| 3/19/26 | ![]() Women's History Month: Hip Deep in Mali - Growing Into Music in 21st Century Bamako✨ | musicBamako+4 | — | APWW #731 | Bamako | Bamakogriots+5 | — | 59m 04s | |
| 3/12/26 | ![]() Women's History Month: Cheikha Rimitti, Rebel Queen of Algerian Music✨ | women's historyAlgerian music+3 | — | raï | Algeria | Cheikha RimittiAlgerian music+5 | — | 58m 59s | |
| 3/5/26 | ![]() Women's History Month: Africa in America - Ladies Edition✨ | Women's History MonthAfrican music+5 | — | Zap MamaAntibalas | MadagascarSudan+1 | AfricaAmerica+8 | — | 59m 00s | |
| 2/26/26 | ![]() Black History Month: Gospel Live from South Africa to Alabama✨ | gospel musicAfrican music+4 | — | Ladysmith Black MambazoThe Fairfield Four+3 | — | gospel musicLadysmith Black Mambazo+5 | — | 59m 04s | |
| 2/19/26 | ![]() Black History Month: Midwest Electric - The Story of Chicago House and Detroit Techno✨ | house musictechno music+5 | — | Chicago HouseDetroit Techno+1 | South Side ChicagoDetroit | house musictechno+6 | — | 59m 04s | |
| 2/12/26 | ![]() Black History Month: Escaping the Delta - Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues | Elijah Wald, acclaimed author of “Escaping the Blues: Robert Johnson the Invention of the Blues”, talks with producer Ned Sublette, and plays lesser-known recordings by Peetie Wheatstraw, Lonnie Johnson, Leroy Carr and others, who provided source material for some of Johnson’s classic tunes. APWW #452 Produced by Ned Sublette in 2005 | — | ||||||
| 2/5/26 | ![]() Black History Month: Music of The Harlem Renaissance | The Harlem Renaissance was a vibrant 1920s-1930s Black cultural movement centered in Harlem, a hub for African American creativity, literature (Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston), music (jazz, blues), and art (Aaron Douglas), fueled by the Great Migration and a desire to redefine Black identity that forged a new sense of Black Pride. In this program, we hear less well known artists such as James (“Big Jim”) Reese Europe who led an orchestra of 120 musicians. We also hear iconic songs of the era including Fats Waller’s “Ain’t Misbehavin’”, Mamie Smith’s massive 1920 hit “Crazy Blues,” Cab Colloway’s “St. James Infirmary” and more. Along the way, we’ll enjoy the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra featuring Louis Armstrong on trumpet and vocals and Coleman Hawkins on sax, Ethel Waters, James P. Johnson, and Willie the Lion Smith. Harlem also drew the top Cuban orchestras who came to New York by steamship to record, calyso singers, and Haitian vodou music and theater. Harlem was famous for its rent parties and a wide open attitude to defying Prohibition where revelers danced to the shimmy, the black bottom, and the Charleston from down south. Relive the glory! APWW #226 Produced by Ned Sublette | — | ||||||
| 1/29/26 | ![]() Sierra Leone: Celebration, War, and Healing | Sierra Leone has deep reserves of resilience, and an ability to come together and overcome great obstacles embedded in its culture. To provide the kind of history that is all too often overlooked when reporting on current events on the African continent, we are encoring this Hip Deep episode, which explores the nation’s past. When Sierra Leone gained independence in 1961, Freetown swayed to the beguiling, breezy lilt of palm wine guitar and danced to the funky pop of Geraldo Pino and the Heartbeats. Once a center of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Sierra Leone became an improbable amalgamation of indigenous peoples and repatriated Africans freed from slavery. Thirty years of political and economic disintegration led to a horrific civil war that claimed tens of thousands of victims and created a generation of maimed bodies and ruined lives between 1991 and 2002. A significant portion of the violence was internal, with community members and sometimes children taking up arms against each other. Following the conflict, efforts to restore peace included truth and reconciliation programs aimed at strengthening social ties. This episode profiles the inspiring story of Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, a band formed in war-era refugee camps in Guinea. The band played a key role in giving citizens the courage to return home, and now, along with other young musicians in Freetown, attempt to pick up where others left off before the war. Produced by Simon Rentner with Wills Glasspiegel. APWW PGM #552 Originally broadcast in 2008 | — | ||||||
| 1/22/26 | ![]() Treasures of Benin | Nestled between Ghana, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Nigeria, Benin is a rich sliver of West Africa too often overlooked. This program puts Afropop's spotlight on Benin, starting with the country's favorite daughter. International star Angelique Kidjo looks back on her musical education in the Benin capital, Cotonou, as she walks us through the songs on her album Oyo, which spans covers of songs by James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Miriam Makeba, and Benin's own Bella Bellow. We meet the 70s "vodoun funk" band Orchestre Poly-Rythmo, who are still going strong, and recently made their belated US debut. We move forward to present a chat with Lionel Loueke, a Beninois guitarist who has moved on to become one of the most original voices in contemporary American jazz. The program ends with a remembrance of the brilliant Malian guitarist and singer Lobi Traore. APWW PGM #594 Originally aired in 2010 | — | ||||||
| 1/15/26 | ![]() The French Caribbean: Cosmopolitan, Colonial, Complicated | In the music of the French Antilles - the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe - you can hear influences that range from the traditional béle and gwo ka drumming of the islands' rural communities, to European additions like polka and French chanson. But when these islands produced a pop genre that took much of the Caribbean and African world by storm - the smooth and sexy dance music zouk, which exploded in the 1980s - it was an entirely new blend that uniquely reflected the complex layers of identity in these Caribbean communities that are, administratively, a full-fledged part of France. Still colonies? Many think so. Either way the Antilles have long produced artists and thinkers with deep sensitivity to the gradations of race, class, migration, and relationship to a powerful, distant metropolis. Now, musicians in Guadeloupe and Martinique are re-exploring their roots, celebrating rhythms that go back to slavery days without pulling back from the cosmopolitanism of recent years. Our guide to this music - and the rich history and ongoing debates that it reflects - is Brenda Berrian of the University of Pittsburgh, whose book, Awakening Spaces: French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music and Culture, is a definitive - and enthusiastic - treatment of the subject. Hip Deep by Siddhartha Mitter. APWW #570 Produced by Siddhartha Mitter in 2009 | — | ||||||
| 1/7/26 | ![]() Afropop Soundsystem | The first decade of the 21st century saw the beginning of huge changes in African diaspora music. Afrobeats and amapiano were still in the cradle, but a new spirit was in the air. In this program, we return to that crucial decade to hear some of the bold new ideas bubbling up in Africa. We’ll hear Buraka Som Sistema from Angola and Portugal, Nigerian rapper 9ice, an Akon remix of Amadou and Mariam, and a then emerging American rock band with a bright future ahead of them, Vampire Weekend. Produced by Wills Glasspiegel. Originally broadcast in 2009. | — | ||||||
| 1/2/26 | ![]() Jewish Communities of Sub-Saharan Africa | Once-substantial Jewish enclaves of Morocco, Algeria and other North Africa states have dwindled steadily since World War II, mostly through migration to Israel. In sub-Saharan Africa, lesser known Jewish communities provide strikingly different narratives. Guided by ethnomusicologist and Rabbi Jeffrey A. Summit of Tufts University, this program focuses on the history and music of a small but robust community of Jewish converts in Uganda, the Abayudaya. Summit’s own recordings include the Abayudaya singing choral music, modified folkloric songs accompanied by local drums and harps, such as the enchanting adungu, and also ventures into pop music bring this remarkable story vividly to life. This program will also introduce history and music from a younger community of practicing Jews in Ghana. APWW #544 Produced by Banning Eyre. | — | ||||||
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