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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 ...
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 ...
Papa Wemba, a 67-year-old Congolese rumba music legend, died after collapsing on stage in Abidjan in the early hours of Sunday. A report from a private morgue in Abidjan where his body was taken, said ...
The electronic and experimental music band KOKOKO! didn’t record its albums in studios, or even really indoors, in its birthplace of Kinshasa, the sprawling capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
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Camp Zaïre: The 'Congolese' neighbourhood in Kigali that's changing with the times
In the early 1990s, long before petrol stations, supermarkets, and hardware stores reshaped the urban landscape, the area between what was then known as Rwandex and Mburabuturo pulsed with a distinct ...
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