Kwenders is the co-founder of Moonshine, a Montreal-based collective that spotlights the culture and music of the African ...

Earlier this year, Donald Trump admitted he didn’t know “what the Congo is” – and the American President is far from alone ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Honk!, its parade and Oktoberfest are back, there's are strange ...

Comedians in Congo are mining their country's chronic instability for laughs, entertaining people displaced by the war with ...

James Baker traces the history of the rumba and other Latin rhythms in early Broadway musicals on this episode of "Momentos ...

It’s been 20 years since Mabiba Baegne last brought her African dance and music magic to Missoula. Among the many things that have changed since then: the Garden City became, in just the past few ...

Planet China: Seventh in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world. Chinese miners are illegally extracting Congolese gold on a vast ...

Kathryn Tickell selects global roots music for the season change, including congolese rumba from Maestro Vumbi Dekula and the misty Appalachian melodies of Joseph Decosimo’s banjo. Show more As summer ...

The cobalt export suspension from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will expire on October 15. The restriction, imposed in February, extended in June and again on Sunday, had a profound impact on ...

Sans Soucis(they/them) makes music that invigorates the soul. Born out of a desire to reconnect with the uninhibited joyfulness and authenticity of childhood, their music is a radical act of ...

Dar es Salaam. When Joseph Mayanja, better known as Jose Chameleone, first emerged on the East African music scene in the late 1990s, few could have foreseen that he would become one of the region’s ...

‘Spillover event’ in which an animal infected humans is likely to be the cause of 47 confirmed cases and 25 deaths. An outbreak of Ebola has been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ...