Kokoko! are a musical collective with a new, raw sound produced entirely on instruments made from recycled scrap material. They've shaken up dancefloors in their native Kinshasa, now they're turning ...

Twice a week at Hôtel la Crèche in Matongé – one of the most bustling and culturally diverse neighbourhoods in the Congolese capital – the evening becomes a 1960s Kinshasa Rumba spectacle. A rooftop ...

The video for Mbongwana Star’s debut single, Malukayi, was a mysterious and rather compelling thing. Figures loom out of a low-lit, smoke-wreathed gloom: a dancer, a frantic percussionist, a couple of ...

As part of Africa Month 2026, Apple Music’s ongoing Sounds Of Africa initiative spotlights Abidjan, Kinshasa and Dakar, ...

Under the High Patronage of Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa will host the first-ever World Music and Tourism Festival. UN Tourism joins the ...

Thousands of fans paid a final tearful tribute to Congolese “rumba king” Papa Wemba at a requiem mass in Kinshasa on Wednesday where his songs were played, before he is laid to rest. Papa Wemba was a ...

Life on the streets is grim and desperate, said “Business,” a homeless teen in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DR Congo) capital, Kinshasa. “Your body ends up worn out,” he said, describing a ...

Under the High Patronage of His Excellency Mr. Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa will host the first-ever World Music and Tourism Festival ...

Excitement is at an all-time high in Kinshasa as the Democratic Republic of the Congo prepares to officially launch the first World Music and Tourism Festival today, under the theme 'The Rumba Route ...

Thousands of fans paid a final tearful tribute to Congolese "rumba king" Papa Wemba at a requiem mass in Kinshasa on Wednesday where his songs were played, before he is laid to rest. Papa Wemba was a ...