Each weekend, dancers stoked on music and alcohol sway to the old hits on the decrepit rooftop terrace of Kinshasa's venerable La Creche bar like little has changed in the Congolese capital since the ...

Africa’s leading Congolese Rumba music is now on the list of the world cultural heritage of humanity after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) admitted the ...

Born in San Isidro, Peru, local musician Oscar Alvardo knew at an early age he was destined to play music. He picked up a Peruvian percussion instrument called a cajon (box) at age 3 and by 12 was ...

Some musicians and historians in the Democratic Republic of Congo are hard at work trying to preserve the tradition of Congolese rumba, which was added to UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list ...

In Kinshasa’s hip bars, the rumba of yesteryear has given way to a modern fusion of Afropop and RnB. The house of Congolese world music legend Papa Wemba has been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The house of Congolese world music legend Papa Wemba has been turned into a museum to rumba (JUNIOR KANNAH) (JUNIOR KANNAH/AFP/AFP ...