Before the members of Congolese music collective KOKOKO! take the stage at Washington, D.C.'s Rock & Roll Hotel, they slip into bright yellow jumpsuits. The fashion choice, they explain, has ...

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 ...

The electronic and experimental music band KOKOKO! didn’t record its albums in studios, or even really indoors, in its birthplace of Kinshasa, the sprawling capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Congolese rumba music legend Papa Wemba died after collapsing on stage in the Ivory Coast in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to the private morgue where his body was ...

Introduction : James Weldon Johnson's transnational vaudeville -- Part I. The nineteenth-century routes of Black transnationalism. George Washington Williams's stern duty of history -- William Henry ...

"Papa Wemba has always been my idol. So I've just lost my star," said JB Mpiana, the head of the popular Kinshasa musical group Wenge Musica. A general view taken through a window shows mourners ...