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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Before the members of Congolese music collective KOKOKO! take the stage at Washington, D.C.'s Rock & Roll Hotel, they slip into bright yellow jumpsuits. The fashion choice, they explain, has ...

Inside the Goma Cultural Center in Congo, dozens of guitars once used to teach Goma’s youth hang silently on the wall. The center, once known as a gathering place for musicians and artists who want to ...

The sprawling forecourt of the People’s Palace in Kinshasa lit up on Friday night as Koffi Olomide, the legendary Congolese musician, took to the stage as the grand closing act of the first-ever World ...

"Papa Wemba has always been my idol. So I've just lost my star," said JB Mpiana, the head of the popular Kinshasa musical group Wenge Musica. A general view taken through a window shows mourners ...

Congo's most famous musician Papa Wemba, gives his first concert in Kinshasa June 26, 2004 in this file photo. REUTERS/ David Lewis ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Congolese rumba music legend Papa Wemba died ...