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), ...

"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 ...

Congolese musician Aurellen Miatsonama Aurlus Mabele. Versatile and stylish Congolese musician Aurellen Miatsonama Aurlus Mabele was planning a return to the stage when cancer attacked and finally ...

Vox Congo are 5 musicians who played in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s army band before fleeing the country’s civil war, eventually making their way to Melbourne where they have written gospel ...

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 ...

You may think you don’t know anything about Congolese music. But if you’ve ever tapped your foot to the irresistible beat of the rumba, you’ve experienced a national tradition. Rumba originated in ...

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 ...