Best 8 African Diaspora Podcasts

This podcast investigates political, socio-economic, and cultural issues in contemporary Africa and the African Diasporas. It engages Africanist scholars, artists, activists, athletes, opinion leaders, business people, and ordinary citizens in a critical conversation about the challenges facing Africans and people of African descent. more

Inspiring and insightful conversations with the African Diaspora . A platform for expression of views and works from the African diaspora with the aim of changing the African narrative whilst inspiring a new generation on the continent and beyond. more

'No Wahala' is a podcast hosted by Nigerian-American hosts Tune Day (@theycallmeTUNE) and Bawo (@JustBawo). In this weekly show, they invite special guests to discuss topics such as music, culture, politics, and trending issues within the diaspora. The podcast provides a platform for engaging conversations that bridge African and diaspora cultures, offering listeners insightful and entertaining content. Whether you're interested in the latest trends in music, cultural discussions, or political insights from the diaspora, 'No Wahala' offers a diverse range of topics to explore. #NoWahala more

Pride will progress to power. We are dedicated to Jamaicans on the island, in the diaspora, members of other Caribbean communities, and all progressive people who would like to learn more about us. We seek to inspire our audience by featuring interesting people and events from the island and diaspora. Please send us your ideas regarding issues affecting our community that you would like us to feature. more

Engineer Your Life with Lungelo KMEnjoy enlightening, thought-provoking, inspirational and entertaining conversations with South African and diaspora industry leaders. Our work is to find stories worth your time and provide you with a relatable Masterclass on that topic. Join us on Wednesday mornings for fresh episodes. #EngineerYourLife more

Season 4 of Conscious Conversations unfolds as a living, transdisciplinary curriculum, weaving Africana Womanist eco-metaphysics, mythological studies, Black feminist geographies, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and Futures Literacy. Each dialogue is a portal into learning as becoming—an initiation into memory, healing, and self-knowledge. We begin with Prof. Monica Mody, whose work in decolonial and Indigenous epistemologies reframes education as initiation, where myth, dreams, and cycles of birth death rebirth act as sacred technologies of transformation. With Atava Garcia Swiecicki, we deepen this arc through Earth-rooted teachings, honouring plants, ancestral medicine, and ecological consciousness as archives of cultural and cellular repair. In conversation with Malikeya Khantrece, we confront law, coloniality, and historical amnesia, reimagining reparations as spiritual and ancestral reckoning. Dr. Christy Garrison-Harrison traces how violence is inscribed onto the Black body and how ancestral work becomes resistance and reconstitution. With Mthuthu Ndebele, we turn to music as ancestral offering, and with Chad Zibelman, to frameworks of co-learning and relational accountability. The season closes with Riel Miller on Futures Literacy, resonant with ponelopele—the Sotho-Tswana ethic of ethical foresight. Rather than prediction, it is a forward gaze rooted in ancestral wisdom, guiding us to live into uncertainty with clarity and presence. more

We are not African because we are born in Africa, we are African because Africa was born in us. Explore the way of life, the music, food and the culture of the African, people and communities in the Diaspora .A people without the knowledge of their past is like a tree without Roots more

The Stoop podcast digs into stories that are not always shared out in the open. Hosts Leila Day and Hana Baba start conversations and provide professionally-reported stories about what it means to be Black and how we talk about blackness. Come hang out on The Stoop as we dialog about the diaspora. more