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 ...

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Mwenebyake Alebelebe sat at the dinner table sharing a traditional Congolese meal including ugali, a type of corn flour porridge, with his wife, Mwasi Binge. Across the way, in the living room, their ...

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Anzor Alem, a rising star of the African music scene, recently announced the postponement of his highly anticipated first album. If this news may disappoint some fans, it testifies to the artist’s ...