Former colleagues of legendary Congolese guitarist Lokassa ya Mbongo have released a tribute song. The single titled, Lokassa Forever, was composed to immortalise the former band leader of Soukous ...

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 ...

Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers ...

Congolese guitarist Papa Noel Nedule will finally be laid to rest today in Kinshasa, DR Congo. The former TP OK Jazz musician ...

Before Bob Dylan was Bob Dylan, he was a disciple of Woody Guthrie. But Guthrie and his contemporaries were more than folk ...

Jazz bassist Donald Rafael Garrett helped birth the AACM and appeared on some of Coltrane’s wildest albums, but he’s barely ...

The discovery of one old record is breathing new life into a genre of Soviet-era music that hasn't been widely heard overseas for decades.

It’s part of a trend that began in the 1950s, where numerous faith groups worship in the same building, and especially needed ...

Health authorities have yet to identify the cause of outbreaks of a disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo that the World Health Organization has called “a significant public health threat.” Last ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - International sanctions against Rwanda will reduce the incentive for Kinshasa to engage in peace talks with M23 rebels who have made lightning advances in eastern Congo this ...

The adventures of Jungle Jim starring Johnny Weissmuller, a character first depicted in a comic strip by Alex Raymond (creator of Flash Gordon) and Don Moore. Weissmuller played a hunter with a ...

An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say. The interval between ...