Cameroon-born Collinet began his radio career in the 1960s, introducing American soul singers like James Brown to African audiences. Collinet became a famed broadcaster in Africa and a top expert on ...

Georges Collinet, host of the weekly public radio show Afropop Worldwide, is well aware of the mysterious power that music has to help shape people’s hearts and minds. During the four decades that ...

Afropop Worldwide is America's first and longest-lived weekly program on the music of Africa and the African Diaspora. Host Georges Collinet, born in Cameroon, is one of the best-known and best-loved ...

Collinet is one of the foremost experts on African Pop music and perhaps the best-known broadcaster on the African continent. He shares his personal playlist as part of Tell Me More's series, 'In Your ...

Sitting in for Dee Dee Bridgewater on this show is Georges Collinet, host of Afropop Worldwide from Public Radio International. As Collinet has said for years on Afropop, Mali in West Africa is home ...

When Georges Collinet thinks about the term "tribal beats," he pictures his childhood village in Cameroon, back when his grandfather would use a talking drum to communicate with neighboring Pygmy ...

Final rehearsals with the newly coined Niger River Ensemble are underway for the bid show tomorrow at the Eisenhower Theater, The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.. The evening of music focused on two ...

In this week's edition of the Here & Now DJ Sessions, host Jeremy Hobson speaks with Georges Collinet of Afropop Worldwide about new music in the world of Afropop, including songs by the Ghanean ...

April 11, 2014 - Half of the population in Sub Saharan Africa is under 25 years of age. How to get this large number of youth, that are leaving school and entering the labor market, productively and ...

April 9, 2014 - 35 paintings and pictures by Syrian artists are exhibited in the Atrium of the World Bank’s headquarters. Dr. Jim Yong King, President of the World Bank, joined Inger Andersen, Vice ...

I'm Michel Martin, and this is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. Now, it's time for our Wisdom Watch conversation. That's the part of the program where we speak with those who've made a difference through ...