"Afropop is important for me because they bring a lot from the motherland.
You can discover the music, the people, the colors, the dancing,
everything that is important in my life, your life. Please help keep
Afropop alive. Jerry Jeff! (Thank you!)"
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"We thank Afropop for doing such a great job. In Africa there are still a lot of unnoticed talents. That’s why you have to keep going."
-- Thomas Mapfumo
"I am proud to say that I am part of Afropop…I congratulate all the members and donors and sponsors of Afropop."
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YOUR CONTRIBUTION NEEDED TO KEEP AFROPOP.ORG ALIVE AND GROWING!
We need your financial help. Your contribution is vital in realizing our vision of making Afropop's
unparalleled 16 years of research and programming available as a free
public service to the global on-line community. Here are examples of the costs of keeping afropop.org
up-to-date and accessible for you:
- $3,000 for annual web hosting fees
- $24,000 annual salary for our amazing Senior Editor, Banning Eyre who provides fresh CD reviews, features and artist biographies every week.
- $18,000 for technical staff (HTML and programming) to redesign homepage to make it more user-friendly and to augment the site with new departments.
Your tax-deductible contribution of $20 or more to non-profit World Music Productions makes you a Friend of Afropop and makes a big difference for us. Please make your contribution today. You can either send a check to the address below or you can use PayPal* which is a top-ranked, secure on-line transaction service. You will receive our printed Friends of Afropop Newsletter (published three times a year), full of CD reviews, feature stories and the inside story of Afropop.
For any contribution of $35 or more, you will receive our Friends of Afropop Newsletter plus we will also send you one of our favorite Afropop CDs. Thank you!!!
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Friend Of Afropop |
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$35.00 -
Afropop Aficionado |
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Afropop Associate
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$150.00 -
Afropop Ambassador |
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$250.00 -
Afropop Patron |
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Checks can be made out to:
World Music Productions
688 Union St.
Brooklyn, NY 11215
USA
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million Americans use Paypal, for good reason. Signing up is easy and
free. A plus: if you sign up with our Afropop Paypal link and become a verified Paypal member, you will get a $5
referral fee from Paypal, and so will Afropop!
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Afropop community testimonials
"Afropop is a work of genius in a country full of mediocre music radio offerings....
Offering back shows as high-quality internet streams is a fantastic plus."
-- Jack Freudenheim
"Georges Collinet is a wonder of the world, and he & Afropop delight our musical marrow and teach us how the world lives together... Here I am in middle-America Florida, and I'd hate to try to picture a world without Afropop."
-- princee
"The new web site is educational, informative, and prompted me to become a financial friend to Afropop. Classic Audio Streams on Afropop Radio fill my home and office with beautiful expressions of creativity from around the globe."
-- Adrienne W. Middlebrooks
"The user-friendly website offers me the shows I've missed and a sampler of what's happening, bringing the world a lot closer to me and the culture-starved backwater in which I live. "
-- Angela Ray
"I am a New York Puerto Rican conga player... I record just about every show because it's equivalent to taking a college course. So thank you for years of education."
-- Carlos Cornier
"George Collinet's Afropop Worldwide radio program and the Afropop.org website have been for me for years the first stop in finding out about the treasures in African-rooted world music."
-- Krista Fabian
"Afropop's dedicated staff are "Global Songcatchers"
-- discovering and preserving traditional, contemporary and cutting edge music that would not otherwise be known."
-- Cha Smith
"Afropop does a tremendous service to students, academics, music lovers and many others by highlighting important historical, artistic, cultural and musical trends"
-- James Ainsworth
"Afropop Worldwide is a great program.... It is professional, fun, eclectic and a truly pleasurable learning experience each time I listen."
-- Pamela Malcolm
"Afropop Worldwide is truly is one of the highlighs of my week... It is one of the few programs I try to stay home to hear, and it just gets better every year."
-- Mary Rowles
"Afropop deserves an award for popularizing some of the finest music found in the world today. "
-- John Hudelson
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