Jean de Dieu Makiese (Madilu System), singer and songwriter: born Léopoldville, Belgian Congo 28 May 1952; married (four children); died Kinshasa 11 August 2007. His husky tenor blessed with a ...

Kampala — While fans of Afrigo Band were mourning the death of the band's legendary saxophonist Mansur Bulegeya, a fortnight ago, elsewhere in Congo, fans of rumba soukous music, were grieving the ...

Thousands of fans have taken to the streets of the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital to mourn Madilu System, known as "Congo's King of Rumba". Police controlled the crowds as they accompanied the ...

Nairobi — When Congolese musician Papa Wemba performed at the Carnivore in Nairobi at the weekend and introduced his show with hip-hop and rock-fused rumba, most of the fans were not amused. A section ...

AFRICA moves to a Congolese beat, mainly in the form of pirated CDs and cassettes. In the vast Democratic Republic of Congo itself, ravaged by almost 50 years of war, economic collapse and ...

Built to the same impressive physical proportions as the late Luciano Pavarotti, the Congolese rumba and soukous star Madilu System, who passed unexpectedly from what is thought to have been a ...