Camille Cox of Lititz, left, and Frances Thiry of Manheim Township, both age 9, execute dance moves with a Samba Mapangala dancer onstage at Long's Park on Sunday. The East African ensemble led by ...

Congolese Rumba. Even the name is enticing and exotic. The genre is a synergistic hybrid of African and Cuban music. It’s a delightful energetic dance music that would make you forget that Congo is ...

A Kenyan legend of '70s East African rumba music, Samba Mapangala was understandably proud when Barack Obama was elected president. He even wrote a song, “Obama Ubarikiwe” roughly translated as “Obama ...

Nairobi — US-based Congolese musician, once based in Kenya with his Orchestre Virunga band. He is mostly remembered here for hits like Malako, Vunja Mifupa and Dunia Tunapita. Mapangala was recently ...

Congolese star Samba Mapangala is in the country. The musician cum lead vocalist is set to leave for Zanzibar and Tanzania this Sunday to shoot videos for his latest album Maisha Matamu, writes ...

He has been on the music scene for over forty years and made more than a dozen albums. The musician Samba Mapangala was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo but became an established name across ...