"Ngui-Ngon" appears on Tiers Monde Cooperation's debut LP. Fortunately, sharing music that’s decades past its press cycle is one purpose of this column. The Listener is for whatever we like, and ...

His up-tempo hits and high-wattage performances were highlighted by spectacular dance moves. He contracted the coronavirus and died in Paris. By Abdi Latif Dahir This obituary is part of a series ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Ricky Mulolo is re-engineering a revolution in Lingala music and is already seeing fruits of his labour, writes Stevens ...

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Ricky Mulolo is re-engineering a revolution in Lingala music and is already seeing fruits of his labour, writes Stevens Muendo As Soukous music began to conquer London and Paris in the late 1980s, a ...