Amid singing, clapping, and dancing to traditional Congolese music, Pope Francis celebrated the Zaire Use of the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite in St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday. The pope began his ...

BIRD ISLAND - Siama Matuzungidi and Dallas Johnson brought the rural Congolese soukous sound to Bird Island Wednesday to kick off Bird Island Days at the Bird Island Cultural Centre. The duo performed ...

Singer and composer Joseph Kabasele, aka Le Grand Kallé, is widely credited with the creation of "Congolese rumba," the most popular style in Central and East Africa during the 1960s and 1970s. In ...

Rhiannon visits guitarist Niwel Tsumbu on his family farm near Kinsale in County Cork. Niwel Tsumbu is a guitarist and singer who grew up in Kinshasa with the traditional Soukous music of the Congo.

• Read Federico Martinez's review of the Bichini Bia Congo Dance Theater Co.'s performance at the Global Awareness Festival in his music blog Ear Wax. • Video of Pline Mounzeo and Biza Sompa of ...

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 ...

L'or Mbongo is one of the biggest gospel names in Africa and her singing prowess is likened to Rebecca Malope's. L'or was in Kenya recently and spoke to CAROL NYANGA I am a born-again Christian who ...