Likewise, in Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, music is at the forefront of events that aren't as well known as the Nazi's rise to ...

and artists from Congo, Cameroon, Togo and many others. All forms of music that existed at the time were part of my daily life. I've always loved singing. I started singing at the age of six in my ...

A Feb. 6 concert held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, honored the life and contributions to rock 'n' roll of famed Native guitarist ...

The rebels have also shut down the airport in Goma and occupied the state-run radio station, which was playing music. Special UN ... the worst part is "the humiliation that our army failed to ...

In the two Congos, there’s a cultural movement by the Society of Ambience-Makers and Elegant People (Sape), known as “sapeurs”, who blend fashion, culture and social resistance. Though it was rooted ...

Patrice Lumumba, who helped lead Congo’s struggle from a Belgian colony ... “Musicians like Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach, who were both a part of that civil rights movement, used music as a political ...

Congo has been plagued by war for nearly three decades. Millions of people have been displaced, and rape has consistently ...

Delcat Idengo, well-known for his critical songs, died after releasing a track condemning the city's rebel occupation.

This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled. By Elian Peltier and Justin Makangara Elian Peltier reported from Dakar ...

Over twenty years ago, violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) forced Asukulu Songolo’s ’25 family to flee and resettle in the U.S. Now a second-generation Congolese-American ...