Since 2018, children in the Republic of Congo have been performing classical music in a culture permeated by traditional ...

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 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), ...

Celebrated Congolese artist Bozi Boziana (pictured) is in Kenya. Accompanied by his Anti Choc band amid tight security, the celebrated France-based Congolese artiste arrived in the country yesterday ...

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 ...

With it is driving beat and spidery, dual guitar lines, Congolese band Loboko is exactly the kind of band that would have a packed crowd on their feet at the Folk Festival Dance Pavilion. They are ...

KAMPALA, Uganda, September 25 (UNHCR) - Music has always been part of Jeremiah Mbaha's life, even when he had almost nothing. "I have been singing since my childhood. I could sing anything and I could ...

"The Integral language of Black Africa" by Leopold Sedar Senghor. Program notes, and texts (in Bantu with English translations) bound into each container. Recorded in: Fort Rousset (Congo (Brazzaville ...

The electronic and experimental music band KOKOKO! didn’t record its albums in studios, or even really indoors, in its birthplace of Kinshasa, the sprawling capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

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. What to Read Next ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese President Joseph Kabila's face bobs up and down on a sweaty dance floor to a song praising his arch-rival, former rebel chief Jean-Pierre Bemba. The man sporting the ...