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), ...

Congolese rumba, sometimes called rumba Lingala or rumba Congolais, is likely to join khon, a Thai masked dance drama, khaen music of Laos, chapei dang veng of Cambodia, Cuban son and Dominican ...

"Ngui-Ngon" appears on Tiers Monde Cooperation's debut LP. Fortunately, sharing music that’s decades past its press cycle is one purpose of this column. The Listener is for whatever we like, and ...

Congo'sSamba Mapangala and the Soukous Stars animated a high-spirited Afropop Dance Party at the legendary New York nighclub SOB's on Friday, Novemver 10th. The event was to honor of Afropop Worldwide ...

Long before Fally Ipupa, one man dominated the soukous music scene. Tabu Ley Rochereau was his name. He died on Saturday, November 30. Out in the open yard, sometime in the 1990s, a couple of naughty ...

ONE of the best Rhumba maestros, Fally Ipupa, was in the country for the Valentine's weekend and without talking about the 'nudity' of his dancers that were carried out in one of the papers, I have ...

The king of Democratic Republic of Congo's raunchy "soukous" music is the new deputy governor of the capital. Veteran musician Tabu Ley Rochereau told the BBC he wanted to use his skills as a ...

Lokassa and the Soukous Stars. That is what the name of the group would have been. It was a textbook; Franco and TP OK Jazz, Tabu Ley and Afrisa Internationale, Verckys and Veve, Aurlus Mabele and ...

Kukuwa African Dance integrates a blend of African ‘soukous’, Latin ‘merengue’ and Carribean ‘socca’. IMAGINE being transported to an exotic African expedition with the “agbaja”, “hiplife” and ...

Versatile and stylish Congolese musician Aurellen Miatsonama Aurlus Mabele was planning a return to the stage when cancer attacked and finally silenced him, bringing an illustrious career spanning ...