Africa’s leading Congolese Rumba music is now on the list of the world cultural heritage of humanity after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) admitted the ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. “West Central Africa, popularly known as Congo or Bantu, brought a trove of ideas ...
FALLY IPUPA: (Singing in non-English language). RASCOE: That's "Formule 7," the title track from Fally Ipupa's latest album. And he joins us now from Paris. Welcome to the program. IPUPA: Yes, thank ...
A country music group from the Democratic Republic of Congo plan to shake up the music world on Apple TV+ new music competition series, My Kind of Country. In the exclusive clip below, creative ...
Everything is intertwined in the music of Congolese collective KOKOKO! And everything matters. Take a song like last year's "Polo Munene." A percussive pulse is intermittently interrupted by flashes ...
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 ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Billgobenson has released his highly anticipated single "A Little Bit of Honey" — ...
Congo Square, the historic common that is now part of Armstrong Park but was once a market and gathering place for enslaved Africans, is the subject of a weekend-long symposium and music festival.
Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Lingala Artist Ferre Gola during his visit in Kenya. Photo: Boniface Okendo Flamboyant Congolese singer Ferre Gola is ...
?With an easy smile that lights up his round face revealing the gap in his upper teeth, Congolese rhumba maestro Wuta Mayi takes his eyes off the plate of fried fish and osuga (African nightshade) to ...