Soukous, the infectious driving pop music from Zaire, reached an international audience in the 1980s when a community of self-exiled African musicians turned Paris into the Western capital of Afropop.

In his quarter-century of music-making, soukous master Pepe Kalle has moved from dense, rumba-based arrangements, with guitar filling in for the piano parts, to sinewy, stripped-down party music, all ...

The sounds of Zaire, the savory smells of Senegal and the sweet tastes of West Africa will take center stage at the Prospect Park Bandshell today for the 13th annual African Festival. Heading the ...