Afropop's Women Warriors
The Covid-19 pandemic forced musicians everywhere to step off the stage and stay home, reflecting. Now, as the world gradually opens up, they are reemerging with powerful new music, and lots of it. This program focuses on four female artists whose 2021 music is full of challenging messages for a challenged world. Climate change, womens\u2019 empowerment, police brutality, official corruption\u2026 All that and more in new work from Angelique Kidjo, Dobet Gnaore, Fatoumata Diaouara and Shungudzo, plus a dive into Octavia Butler\u2019s prescient cautionary tales with Toshi Reagon. Produced by Banning Eyre.