Dancers stoked on music and alcohol sway each weekend 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 ...

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 son of Malonga Casquelourd, a world-renowned musician, dancer, and champion of Central African art and culture, Malonga was born into the intoxicating world of traditional Congolese music — an ...

Congolese rumba music legend Papa Wemba dies after collapsing on stage in Ivory Coast while performing at FEMUA 2016 festival ...

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 ...