The Kinshasa musicians were into dance music, but didn’t have the means to make the conventional stuff, and the city's intermittent power supply didn't help.

Veteran musician Tabu Ley Rochereau told the BBC he wanted to use his skills as a performer to improve the atmosphere in Kinshasa. "I know what I can do. It's like when you sing a good song - you can ...

Congo-Kinshasa: Slam Poems and Dance Shows - How Congolese Creatives Are Responding to the M23 Conflict. Arlette Bashizi/TNH. Members of the Kivu Dancers Collective perform for displaced people ...

French-Congolese choreographer and dancer Bolewa Sabourin is the force behind Re-Creation, a project that uses dance to provide therapeutic support to female victims of rape and sexual assault in ...

The capital of DR Congo has the king of soukous dance music, Tabu Ley Rochereau, as its new deputy governor.