Before the members of Congolese music collective KOKOKO! take the stage at Washington, D.C.'s Rock & Roll Hotel, they slip into bright yellow jumpsuits. The fashion choice, they explain, has ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. “West Central Africa, popularly known as Congo or Bantu, brought a trove of ideas ...

It’s been 20 years since Mabiba Baegne last brought her African dance and music magic to Missoula. Saturday: 10-11 a.m. – song; 2-3:30 p.m. – dance; 3:30-5 p.m. – West African Dun Gathering: Saturday ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Enrique Makasi’s hometown of Beni in eastern Congo is under frequent siege from rebels, and music is the way he tells the world what is happening. Performing before tens of ...

African music traveled to the New World with slavery, only to return to Africa in the 1930’s and 40’s via 78 rpm phonograph records, broadcast by Radio Congo Belge in Léopoldville (now Kinshasha), ...

The band couldn't afford instruments. So they made their own out of scavenged items, like kitchen pots and air-conditioner parts. On their U.S.... Before the members of Congolese music collective ...