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 ...

KINSHASA (Reuters Life!) - In the Congolese capital Kinshasa, there are just two state concessions for the disabled. One is a half-price fare on ferries across the Congo River, the other is free ...

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 ...

Popular Congolese musician Tshala Muana of Karibu Yangu hit song is dead. The artiste, whose official name is Elizabeth Tshala Muana Muidikay, died on Saturday morning, December 10 in Kinshasa, the ...

KINSHASA, Nov 12 (Reuters) - In a tin shed in the backstreets of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's capital, a barefoot 61-year old Jean-Luther Misoko Nzalayala, aka Socklo, hacks with a machete ...

If you are like me, everything you learned about Congo and the Congolese people as a young person, you learned from Tintin In the Congo. The graphic novel shows how Congolese musicians have spread ...

Inside the Goma Cultural Center in Congo, dozens of guitars once used to teach Goma’s youth hang silently on the wall. The center, once known as a gathering place for musicians and artists who want to ...

In June, trombonist and bandleader Delfeayo Marsalis wanted to plan a livestreaming concert with his Uptown Jazz Orchestra for a Juneteenth celebration. But by the time the idea came together, it was ...