"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 ...

The other day, while checking out the various (and many) African internet radio stations on Radio Garden, I zoomed over to Congo and discovered Radio Digital Congo/Radio Okapi (digitalcongo.net), ...

Nairobi — The music scene in the Democratic Republic of Congo, dominated by the grand maestro Franco (Luambo Luanzo Makiadi) for nearly four decades until his death in 1989, has a host of new ...

Are you ready for some very cheerful music? Are you ready to let yourself go? To free your mind and body to a rhythmic melody? Yes? Then you're in the right place, because our genre today is Soukous!

Lagos — The Makossa fever that gripped Nigeria last year is far from over, pushing Nigeria's indigenous music to the background. Last year, Paris based techno-soukous star, Awilo Longomba, evidently ...