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Music Time in Africa is VOA’s longest running English language program. Since 1965, this award-winning program has featured pan African music that spans all genres and generations. Ethnomusicologist and Host Heather Maxwell keeps you up to date on what’s happening in African music.
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Music Time in Africa is VOA’s longest running English language program. Since 1965 this award-winning program has featured pan African music that spans all genres and generations. Host Heather Maxwell keeps you up to date on what’s happening in African music with interviews and cultural information.
Heather spins 30 minutes of new and old tunes from across the continent plus America’s iHeart Music charts number 1 hit. At the back end, reporter Bill Odidi talks with Desiree, a South African DJ, Producer and performer of Zanzi House music. Finally Heather takes us insinde a Washington DC venue where American music icon Roberta Flack is remembered.
The first thirty minutes feature Heather's pan-Africa playlist plus the week's Billboard Hot 100 #1 hit. At the back half she introduces two female artists: Gogowe, a Nigerian American songwriter based in Washington DC, and with Bill Odidi we meet saxophonist, lawyer, and woman of other talents Analo Kanga.
Music Time in Africa is VOA’s longest running English language program. Since 1965 this award-winning program has featured pan African music that spans all genres and generations. Host Heather Maxwell keeps you up to date on what’s happening in African music with interviews and cultural information.
Music Time in Africa is VOA’s longest running English language program. Since 1965 this award-winning program has featured pan African music that spans all genres and generations. Host Heather Maxwell keeps you up to date on what’s happening in African music with interviews and cultural information.
1Music Time in Africa is VOA’s longest running English language program. Since 1965 this award-winning program has featured pan African music that spans all genres and generations. Host Heather Maxwell keeps you up to date on what’s happening in African music with interviews and cultural information.
Music Time in Africa is VOA’s longest running English language program. Since 1965 this award-winning program has featured pan African music that spans all genres and generations. Host Heather Maxwell keeps you up to date on what’s happening in African music with interviews and cultural information.
Music Time in Africa is VOA’s longest running English language program. Since 1965 this award-winning program has featured pan African music that spans all genres and generations. Host Heather Maxwell keeps you up to date on what’s happening in African music with interviews and cultural information.
Music Time in Africa is VOA’s longest running English language program. Since 1965 this award-winning program has featured pan African music that spans all genres and generations. Host Heather Maxwell keeps you up to date on what’s happening in African music with interviews and cultural information.
Heather ushers in the new year of 2025 with a special playlist and well wishes from the VOA Africa Division family. At the back half of the hour she and musical guest Mongezi Ntaka listen to his new EP with singer Lorraine Klassen "Polokwane: Quintessential African Story" and share the backstory to the work.
Guest Host Bill Odidi presents a New Year special Music Time in Africa with his pan-African playlist, a look into current trending music in the Zambia, and guest Anto Neosoul who shares insight into his vision of the future for African music in 2025.
Heather's playlist includes warm holiday tunes from Nigeria, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Cape Verde and Uganda plus an all-time favorite American Christmas pop classic. Devoted listeners, reporters, and artists share the season’s greetings.
At the back half Ibadan's break out-star Richard the Rapper speaks with reporter Seun Rave about his budding career and music.
Heather spins a big playlist of the best African music and most influential music news of 2024 with special guest, VOA’s Roger Muntu. At the back half we pay tribute to Sierra Leonean music icon Steady Bongo whose sudden death shocked and saddened the nations.Mohamed King Millan Bangura has that story.
After Heather's 30-minute playlist you'll meet Nigerian singer, pianist and lawyer Gogowé. Listen to her perform live with her brother Olisa and Uncle Femi and then later in the radio studio for a conversation about her latest single release “Aura” and life as an independent artist living in the United States.
Heather Maxwell celebrates her 500th episode of Music Time in Africa with shout outs from listeners around the world and a fresh playlist of pan African music. The back half features a mashup of archival interviews and live music including Oliver Mutukudzi, Jomion and the Uklos, Fancy Gadam, Tiharea, Acoustic Africa Noura Mint Seymali, Bassekou Kouyate, Kigali Music School, Sho Madjozi and Naomi Achu.
Listen to Heather's playlist of great African jamz from 2010-2020 plus a lively, studio interview in Nairobi with music journalist Bill Odidi and 3 members of the horns quartet Hornsphere. They talk about their recently released album Fomation and perform live.
After 30 minutes of Heather Maxwell's pan-African music playlist, she sits with American/Togolese singer, songwriter and bandleader Dogo du Togo to talk about his new album Avoudé that dropped November 8th. In an upbeat vibe, they listen to select tracks from the album.
In the first half Heather Maxwell plays Amapiano, Maskandi, Egyptian pop, Afrobeats, Bonga flava, Ghanaian Afropop and more. Also she brings the latest South African Music Awards (SAMA) and Grammy Awards news. At the back half Maxwell honors American music legend Quincy Joneswho passed away last week. Bill Odidi presents an in-depth conversation with Kenyan solo artist and one quarter of the group Sauti Sol, Bien.
Heather Maxwell brings presents her curated playlist and takes listeners to Ibadan, Nigeria where Seun Rave sits down with rising star The Pnuema to talk about his new EP Sambre Mesa, his connection to Togo, and Ibadan’s annual music showcase The Blast Yard.
Heather's playlist is inspired by current African his on Spotify and North American College and Community Radio charts. Also included in the mix are US Presidential Election Candidates' #1 campaign theme songs. The feature story is on the arrival of a piano in a rural Ethiopian town for the all-girls school Pharo School. World renown composer and pianist Girma Yifrashewa the installation with a live concert.
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