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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EXCLUSIVE: Pathé Touch Afrique has acquired pan-African rights on historical thriller Rumba Royale, starring Congolese superstar ...

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 ...

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 ...

Congolese Rumba is the glorious musical hybrid of Cuban music fused with African DNA. It started back in the 1950s with a boatload of 78 rpm Cuban records featuring Arsenio Rodriguez, Orquesta Aragón, ...

The heady beats of Congolese rumba were hailed by UNESCO on Tuesday as it added the central African music and dance to its list of global cultural treasures. DAKAR, Dec 14 (Reuters) - The heady beats ...

FALLY IPUPA: (Singing in non-English language). RASCOE: That's "Formule 7," the title track from Fally Ipupa's latest album. And he joins us now from Paris. Welcome to the program. IPUPA: Yes, thank ...

Tabu Ley Rochereau, a giant in the rarified world of Congolese rumba, has, in the words of Hamlet, shuffled off this mortal coil. He was 73. Born 1940 in Banningville, a small village in the western ...

For years, Mandosa had been suffering from a mild stroke and had been receiving treatment in the United States where he lived [Courtesy] Nene Mbendi Mandosa, a leading Democratic Republic of Congo ...

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 ...