12 Nov 2025

Music with Kirsten Zemke: Afrobeats

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 12 November 2025
An image of CKay from his music video for Love Nwantiti.

Photo: YouTube

Music correspondent Kirsten Zemke looks at the genre of Afrobeats, an umbrella term which covers various contemporary West African pop music packaged for a global audience.

She'll play a track from CKay that became the first African song to surpass a billion streams on Spotify.

Kirsten Zemke is an ethnomusicologist at the University of Auckland's School of Social Sciences.