NGOMA HERITAGE Local Congolese-American drummer Kiazi Malonga is the son of Malonga Casquelourd, founder of Fua Dia Congo, the Oakland-based dance-and-drum group that introduced Congolese music and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Musician Tabu Ley Rochereau, who was known as “the king of Congolese rumba,” died this week at the age of 76. He’s credited with internationalizing Congolese music by fusing the sounds of traditional ...

Amid singing, clapping and dancing to traditional Congolese music, Pope Francis celebrated the Zaire Use of the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite in St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday. The Pope began his ...

In Kinshasa’s hip bars, the rumba of yesteryear has given way to a modern fusion of Afropop and RnB. The house of Congolese world music legend Papa Wemba has been ...

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 ...

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 ...