Across his acclaimed career, Big Chief Donald Harrison Jr. has composed in numerous styles of music. He’s combined genres and broken them apart. He’s invented them, too. But in his newest pieces, ...

Shakara blogs about the Congolese musician, Franco Luambo: “It’s a known fact that Franco recorded various praise songs for Mobutu, openly supported Mobutu’s presidential campaigns and toured to ...

Election time in the Democratic Republic of Congo means a torrent of fresh music from some of the country's hottest artists. In this nation of music-lovers, politicians have often formed symbiotic ...