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 ...

While most people are mourning the tragic death of Prince, I just found out that another great musician died earlier today. Congolese superstar PapaWemba was performing onstage in Abidjan, Ivory Coast ...

Some musicians and historians in the Democratic Republic of Congo are hard at work trying to preserve the tradition of Congolese rumba, which was added to UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list ...

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), ...

BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo, March 25 (Reuters) - Police in eastern Congo killed two people on Tuesday when they opened fire on mourners at the funeral of a slain singer known for denouncing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The house of Congolese world music legend Papa Wemba has been turned into a museum to rumba (JUNIOR KANNAH) (JUNIOR KANNAH/AFP/AFP ...

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 ...