December 2000, Charles de Gaulle airport, Paris. The world music star Papa Wemba has just arrived from the Congo with his entourage. It's sizeable, which is not unexpected: Congolese music is fond of ...

I MET him for the first time in May 1999. Not in person, though - a pity because that would have been my eternal pleasure. I was in Abuja to cover the handover of power from the military government of ...

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