This year has seen the untimely deaths of two of the world’s most important cultural ambassadors. The Congolese rumba composer and TPOK Jazz singer Pepe Ndombe Opetum passed on around the same time we ...

The house of Congolese world music legend Papa Wemba has been turned into a museum to rumba – Copyright AFP/File JUNIOR KANNAH Each weekend, dancers stoked on music ...

The other day, while checking out the various (and many) African internet radio stations on Radio Garden, I zoomed over to Congo and discovered Radio Digital Congo/Radio Okapi (digitalcongo.net), ...

This summer the Bronx Music Heritage Center (BMHC) will present a series of music performances, a film screening, and moderated conversations exploring the many Congolese influences in Caribbean music ...

Congolese music star Papa Wemba has died at the age of 66. The band leader, real name Jules Shungu Webadio, collapsed on stage in Abidjan in the Ivory Coast, France 24 confirmed. Wemba was one of ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Congolese rumba music legend Papa Wemba died after collapsing on stage in the Ivory Coast in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to the private morgue where his body was ...

Each weekend, dancers stoked on music and alcohol sway to the old hits on the decrepit rooftop terrace of Kinshasa's venerable La Creche bar like little has changed in the Congolese capital since the ...

Congolese music star Papa Wemba performs during the Femua music festival in Abidjan on April 24, 2016 before collapsing on stage. [AFP] Each weekend, dancers stoked on music and alcohol sway to the ...