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TRAVELOGUE: Inside the fun and thrills of a week in Congo Kinshasa, By Wale Okediran With a population of about 100 million, Congo Kinshasa is the most populous Francophone country in the world, and the 4th-most populous in Africa. 8 min read My first glimpse of Kinshasa was the River Congo. As the African World Airline AWA Flight 342 from Accra, Ghana, continued to circle in the air while awaiting permission to land, the sight of the gloriously serpentine river was a temporary relief to the anxiety of waiting. Moments later, when the airport closure due to a ‘VIP Movement�...

Ils ont brûlé le Congo Enflammé l'Angola Ils ont brûlé Kinshasa Fans called Docteur Nico “ Dieu de la guitare” (God of the Guitar). Playing lead, with his brother Déchaud on rhythm guitar, in various versions of this song, they added a third guitar between theirs. That innovation came to be known as the mi-solo. Recently, a guitarist very familiar with this unpacked Docteur Nico’s innovation: Black-owned Business One reason Kallé has been called the Father of Congolese music is because he was the first African musician to create his own record label, Surboum African Jazz. He was...