NEW LONDON -- Here's the path Siama Matuzungidi took to get from stardom to obscurity. He started in the Democractic Republic of Congo, where he left his home at age 17 in 1971, and made his way to ...

"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 ...

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), ...

Children of all ages are welcome to experience the joy of Congolese music with Papa Siama and Auntie Dallas. The duo will share their love of happy African music at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Litchfield ...

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 ...

Ricky Mulolo is re-engineering a revolution in Lingala music and is already seeing fruits of his labour, writes Stevens Muendo As Soukous music began to conquer London and Paris in the late 1980s, a ...

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