NGOMA HERITAGE Local Congolese-American drummer Kiazi Malonga is the son of Malonga Casquelourd, founder of Fua Dia Congo, the Oakland-based dance-and-drum group that introduced Congolese music and ...

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 ...

The son of Malonga Casquelourd, a world-renowned musician, dancer, and champion of Central African art and culture, Malonga was born into the intoxicating world of traditional Congolese music — an ...

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 ...

Papa Wemba, a musician, actor and fashion icon who collaborated with Stevie Wonder, achieved fame and fandom far beyond the reaches of his native Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The musician—born ...

Families, friends and neighbors conversed in English and Swahili as they listened to live music, filled plates with traditional Congolese dishes and watched children run around the room at the First ...