Bashi men's social dance songs -- Bashi girls' song -- Lobertine -- Bashi nzenze -- Bashi mulizi -- Trough zithers (Bashi, Bahutu, Barundi) -- Barundi work songs ...

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 ...

Co-written by Fariala, Tommy Baron, and Boris Lojnike, the story is a raw yet gentle depiction of civilian life amid the Central African Republic Civil War. After both his parents are jailed for their ...

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 ...

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 ...