This edition of Music Time in Africa celebrates International Women’s Day with music made by African and diaspora women. Heather Maxwell presents an extraordinary panorama of women’s contribution to African music with a curated selection of archive interviews from 2012 to the present, plus a few current hit songs. Interviews include conversations and live music by Sona Jobarteh (Gambia), Oumou Sangaré (Mali), Zap Mama (Belgium), Dobet Gnahoré (Côte d’Ivoire), Manou Gallo (Côte d’Ivoire), Kareyce Fotso (Cameroon), Stella Mwangi (Norway), Ammara Brown (Zimbabwe), and Lenna Bahule (Mozambique). Hit songs by Zuchu (Tanzania), Aya Nakamura (Mali), Simi (Nigeria) and Aster Aweke (Ethiopia) punctuate the archive interviews with current sounds trending today.