Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (now streaming on VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video) commands you to lean in and pay ...

The murder of Patrice Lumumba in January 1961 turned him into one of the most famous political martyrs of the 20th century. His country, the Congo, sat astride the belly of a continent and had seen ...

Central Africa's Democratic Republic of Congo is about the last place one would expect to find a symphony orchestra. Its civil war has raged for generations and monthly incomes there wouldn't be ...

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 ...

In a field in central Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, 36,000 people last weekend got the chance to forget fears about insecurity and enjoy some top African music acts at the ...